Bargains

[Parry1912]

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

http://www.selections.com/rachmaninov-the-bells.html

http://www.selections.com/nielsen-springtime-in-funen.html

http://www.selections.com/zemlinsky-lyric-symphony-2505.html

[Beef Oven!]

Talisker - £27 inc. P&P

[Dave2002]

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?

[jut1972]

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

[Beef Oven!]

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?

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

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!

[Dave2002]

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.

http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/offer-listing/B000NA2PD2/ref=sr_1_1_olp?ie=UTF8&qid=1392544482&sr=8-1&keywords=Mozart+EMI&condition=new

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

[Bryn]

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.

[Dave2002]

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.

[jut1972]

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.

:(

[Dave2002]

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

http://www.mdt.co.uk/series/cpe-bach-keyboard-concertos-spanyi.html

http://www.mdt.co.uk/bach-cpe-cello-concerto-in-direction-bach-collegium-japan-bis.html

http://www.mdt.co.uk/special-offers/cpe-bach-bis-sale.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!

[PJPJ]

Scotch for a penny.......

[Parry1912]

David Zinman's Great Symphonies box: 50CDs for £50 as a pre-order on Amazon

[Parry1912]

Brendel's Mozart PC cycle (10CDs) for £15.52 on Amazon

[Bryn]

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: