Bargains

[mathias broucek]

Sir Colin Davis/Dresden boxed set (6CDs)

https://www.jpc.de/jpcng/classic/detail/-/art/Colin-Davis-die-Staatskapelle-Dresden/hnum/1496054

Cracking Elgar 1!

[Dave2002]

Excellent suggestion, Dave: could Audacity sort out the "tape hiss", too? (Comments above suggest that the sound has been much improved in subsequent remasterings.)

Maybe, but if better remasterings are available, probably better to go straight there.

If you've already got that version you could maybe ask over at the techie board for tips. Unfortunately hiss can be wide range of frequencies, so can perhaps be tamed a bit rather than removed using simple filters. It's much easier to reduce a single frequency, such as mains hum, and hope that no instrument in the recordings uses that frequency!

You can experiment and it might be amusing and or interesting, but it may not be a good way to spend your time unless you are looking for enlightenment or new experiences.

[Dave2002]

If sent from within the EU, or indeed Switzerland, there should be no problem re. import surcharges.

Does Switzerland get dispensation from HMRC? Not quite an EU member!

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

You can experiment and it might be amusing and or interesting, but it may not be a good way to spend your time unless you are looking for enlightenment or new experiences.

Ooh - I dunno: "amusing and interesting" ways of finding "enlightenment [and] new experiences" sounds like a pretty "good way to spend [my] time.

[Bryn]

Does Switzerland get dispensation from HMRC? Not quite an EU member!

It does indeed, which is why I made a special mention of it.

[HighlandDougie]

Cracking Elgar 1!

All the encouragement I need - duly ordered. Thanks for the heads-up, Hafod and Ams

[Thropplenoggin]

All the encouragement I need - duly ordered. Thanks for the heads-up, Hafod and Ams

Surely this is the same Elgar 1 which took the BaL crown, replete with Davis's grunts of encouragement?

[Barbirollians]

Cracking Elgar 1!

I really didn't like it - I felt I was being hectored throughout . I much prefer his earlier RCA version.Let alone the live Proms Boult and the King's Lynn Barbirolli .

[HighlandDougie]

Surely this is the same Elgar 1 which took the BaL crown, replete with Davis's grunts of encouragement?

I remember the BaL choice being the LSO Live version, very much replete with CD's grunts. The one in the Profil box is from Dresden. I can't imagine that it'll be grunt-free but I'm hoping that in what I assume will be a more spacious acoustic (Semperoper, presumably) they might be a bit less distracting.

[hafod]

Naive (6cd equivalent) Messiaen set for £4.99 as an MP3 download.

http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B00274JF80/ref=cm_cd_asin_lnk

[silvestrione]

I remember the BaL choice being the LSO Live version, very much replete with CD's grunts. The one in the Profil box is from Dresden. I can't imagine that it'll be grunt-free but I'm hoping that in what I assume will be a more spacious acoustic (Semperoper, presumably) they might be a bit less distracting.

My memory agrees with Thropplenoggin, I'm sure it was the Dresden version.

[Stephen Smith]

My memory agrees with Thropplenoggin, I'm sure it was the Dresden version.

I think the Dresden recommendation is from the previous BAL. I enjoyed it enough to get it, and now also enjoy the ICA classics Boult Proms live performance. Davix may groan (moan?) on the Dresden recording, but for sure on a fluffed Horn note, you can hear s "Ssssss..." from him.

[HighlandDougie]

My memory agrees with Thropplenoggin, I'm sure it was the Dresden version.

Duh! I was wrong - the LSO Live Elgar conducted by Colin Davis which was a BaL recommendation was the second symphony. The first, as recommended by the inimitable David Owen Norris on 17th March 2007, was indeed the Dresden performance. Grunts here we come ....

[Barbirollians]

Duh! I was wrong - the LSO Live Elgar conducted by Colin Davis which was a BaL recommendation was the second symphony. The first, as recommended by the inimitable David Owen Norris on 17th March 2007, was indeed the Dresden performance. Grunts here we come ....

Inimitable he may be - his judgment is ropey IMO .

[HighlandDougie]

Inimitable he may be - his judgment is ropey IMO .

And in mine too!