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  • Parry1912
    Full Member
    • Nov 2010
    • 963

    I see that Selections also have some other good bargains at the moment:

    A wide range of Gardening, home accessories, wildlife and bird care products, outdoor leisure and games.

    A wide range of Gardening, home accessories, wildlife and bird care products, outdoor leisure and games.

    A wide range of Gardening, home accessories, wildlife and bird care products, outdoor leisure and games.
    Del boy: “Get in, get out, don’t look back. That’s my motto!”

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    • Beef Oven!
      Ex-member
      • Sep 2013
      • 18147

      Talisker - £27 inc. P&P

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      • Dave2002
        Full Member
        • Dec 2010
        • 18008

        Originally posted by Beef Oven! View Post
        Talisker - £27 inc. P&P
        Do we have a whisky section? This does seem a good price, though some of Amazon's prices on other whiskies don't seem so good. The Laphroaig Three Woods was substantially cheaper in our Waitrose a few weeks ago.

        I do wonder about the price of Lagavulin at Amazon, though - is it competitive? http://www.amazon.co.uk/Lagavulin-16...s=lagavulin+16

        I quite liked the glass of this I had a few weeks ago - http://www.amazon.co.uk/Balvenie-Yea.../dp/B002GOJ19Y - again not sure if the price is good.

        OTOH you can pay a lot more - http://www.shop4whisky.com/index.php...sort=3a&page=1 - seriously! Because of the very high prices of some whiskies I have no idea whether many of them would have a flavour of "nectar of the gods" or of "burnt tyres and petrol", or of TCP, as some reviewers have suggested of some of them - such as Lagavulin.

        What music would you select to go with your whisky of choice?

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        • jut1972
          Full Member
          • Jun 2013
          • 18

          I met an astronomer the other week who was telling me about the Dalmore Constellation at 20 a bottle... it's ..nice apparently...

          Amazon US Mozart EMI 50 box <30 USD

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          • Beef Oven!
            Ex-member
            • Sep 2013
            • 18147

            Originally posted by Dave2002 View Post
            Do we have a whisky section? This does seem a good price, though some of Amazon's prices on other whiskies don't seem so good. The Laphroaig Three Woods was substantially cheaper in our Waitrose a few weeks ago.

            I do wonder about the price of Lagavulin at Amazon, though - is it competitive? http://www.amazon.co.uk/Lagavulin-16...s=lagavulin+16

            I quite liked the glass of this I had a few weeks ago - http://www.amazon.co.uk/Balvenie-Yea.../dp/B002GOJ19Y - again not sure if the price is good.

            OTOH you can pay a lot more - http://www.shop4whisky.com/index.php...sort=3a&page=1 - seriously! Because of the very high prices of some whiskies I have no idea whether many of them would have a flavour of "nectar of the gods" or of "burnt tyres and petrol", or of TCP, as some reviewers have suggested of some of them - such as Lagavulin.

            What music would you select to go with your whisky of choice?
            I'm going to start a whisky fred (unless there's already one in existence, will check).

            The Lagavulin is 9 shillings cheaper on Amazon than here (but you don't get a mug (sic) thrown in!

            Music to go with whisky? Maybe Mendelsshonn? Perhaps his Italian symphony?

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            • ferneyhoughgeliebte
              Gone fishin'
              • Sep 2011
              • 30163

              Originally posted by Dave2002 View Post
              I quite liked the glass of this I had a few weeks ago - http://www.amazon.co.uk/Balvenie-Yea.../dp/B002GOJ19Y - again not sure if the price is good.
              Four quid less at Tesco. And I think Lagavulin can be found cheaper than the Amazon price - for Malts I haven't sampled before, I go for the miniatures that can be bought from specialists or a decent off-license. Very few disappointments, but Lagavulin is just the best thing ever (creamy smoked oysters). No other Music needed - it creates its own Mozartian cadences: the Clarinet Quintet of the whiskies.

              Good call on Talisker, tho, BeefO. Siante!
              [FONT=Comic Sans MS][I][B]Numquam Satis![/B][/I][/FONT]

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              • Dave2002
                Full Member
                • Dec 2010
                • 18008

                Originally posted by jut1972 View Post
                I met an astronomer the other week who was telling me about the Dalmore Constellation at 20 a bottle... it's ..nice apparently...

                Amazon US Mozart EMI 50 box <30 USD
                I couldn't see the box on the US site for <$30 - http://www.amazon.com/Mozart-Collect...rds=Mozart+EMI

                It can be obtained for a bit more than £30 in the UK - though watch for European sellers to be sure that there is no extra charge. Some of the suppliers are based in the US.



                In the US the Beethoven box also seems to be available - http://www.amazon.com/gp/offer-listi...&condition=all

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                • Bryn
                  Banned
                  • Mar 2007
                  • 24688

                  I paid around £45 and £30 for my first EMI 50 Beethoven and Mozart boxes respectively, shortly after they were released, then could not resist a further box of each when they turned up in an HMV sale at a fiver each. One of these days I migha get round to putting the spares on ebay or the Amazon marketplace.

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                  • Dave2002
                    Full Member
                    • Dec 2010
                    • 18008

                    Bryn

                    I had a look at the contents of the EMI Mozart and Beethoven boxes. I saw them when they first came out, and some later cheaper offerings - though not as low as £5, but I still managed to resist them. It turns out that I have most of the CDs in both boxes anyway, though there are some curiosities, such as Beethoven flute sonatas, and mandolin pieces which I don't have, but it's hardly worth buying the boxes just for those. In any case, they (or at least the pieces - if not the same recordings/performances) might also be in the Brilliant Beethoven box - I'd need to check.

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                    • jut1972
                      Full Member
                      • Jun 2013
                      • 18

                      Discophage advertised the Mozart box on his blog, so probably why it's gone!

                      The Beethoven box is available over here too (there's also a French edition) but both are much more expensive than the US one you linked to.

                      :(

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                      • Dave2002
                        Full Member
                        • Dec 2010
                        • 18008

                        MDT are doing offers on quite a few CPE Bach CDs - mostly BIS, including keyboard works and concertos performed by Miklos Spanyi.

                        Examples - http://www.mdt.co.uk/series/cpe-bach...rd-spanyi.html




                        Still quite expensive if you want a lot, but significantly cheaper if you see something you really fancy - or maybe you are just rich enough to be able to afford them all!

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                        • PJPJ
                          Full Member
                          • Nov 2010
                          • 1461

                          Scotch for a penny.......

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                          • Parry1912
                            Full Member
                            • Nov 2010
                            • 963

                            David Zinman's Great Symphonies box: 50CDs for £50 as a pre-order on Amazon
                            Del boy: “Get in, get out, don’t look back. That’s my motto!”

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                            • Parry1912
                              Full Member
                              • Nov 2010
                              • 963

                              Brendel's Mozart PC cycle (10CDs) for £15.52 on Amazon
                              Del boy: “Get in, get out, don’t look back. That’s my motto!”

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                              • Bryn
                                Banned
                                • Mar 2007
                                • 24688

                                Originally posted by Parry1912 View Post
                                Brendel's Mozart PC cycle (10CDs) for £15.52 on Amazon
                                There is also a more recent non-AMSIfied box of these recordings, topped up with the earlier concertos played by Haebler, Koopman, et al, but it costs nearly twice as much:

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