Bargains

[PJPJ]

I am not quite sure how today's keyboard players schedule Scarlatti's sonatas for public performance - if indeed they ever do. Only a few players seems to play them. I think some choose 3 or 4 in a sequence, perhaps with a key relation, and maybe starting with a fairly strong, moderate speed opening sonata, then having a slower one to form a kind of "slow movement" (in a more conventional 18th/19th Century sense of sonata) then choose one or two other sonatas, perhaps a bit quicker to function as "scherzo" and "finale". Otherwise simply listening to a whole bundle of Scarlatti sonatas seems to be a slightly odd experience - though not necessarily unpleasant.

I was just doing some file housekeeping and noticed Ben Grosvenor opened his WH concert in 2011 with a couple Kk 96 and Kk 434. They do crop up especially as openers.

[Stunsworth]

Qobuz has the Decca baroque box (50 CDs split between two 25 CD sets) for 2 x £11 or so

http://www.qobuz.com/gb-en/album/baroque-era-vol1-various-artists/0002894787094?qref=dac_3

http://www.qobuz.com/gb-en/album/baroque-era-vol2-various-artists/0002894787095?qref=dac_8

Search for "Baroque Era"

Thanks for that, I'd been looking for that box - I'd assumed it would be a L'Oiseau Lyre release rather than a Decca one.

[Don Petter]

I am not quite sure how today's keyboard players schedule Scarlatti's sonatas for public performance - if indeed they ever do. Only a few players seems to play them. I think some choose 3 or 4 in a sequence, perhaps with a key relation, and maybe starting with a fairly strong, moderate speed opening sonata, then having a slower one to form a kind of "slow movement" (in a more conventional 18th/19th Century sense of sonata) then choose one or two other sonatas, perhaps a bit quicker to function as "scherzo" and "finale". Otherwise simply listening to a whole bundle of Scarlatti sonatas seems to be a slightly odd experience - though not necessarily unpleasant.

Do they not still usually perform them in their Kirkpatrick pairs?

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

I thought, I sought, I bought (very little thought involved)

[Dave2002]

Do they not still usually perform them in their Kirkpatrick pairs?

Not necessarily - see this programme for example - http://ocms-music.org.uk/concerts-20...-grynyuk-piano

[hafod]

I was astonished to discover that the Pricenoia site for comparing prices across all Amazon stores is shutting down - killed by Amazon. Pricenoia has put out a statement.

http://pricenoia.tumblr.com/

Amazon really knows how to irritate its customers - in my case to the point of using it much less. Every cloud has a silver lining though, as I can now make serious inroads into unplayed purchases without simultaneously adding to the pile. Well, not very much.

[AmpH]

I use the Firefox add-on ' Pricenoia - Compare Amazon Prices 0.83 ' which automatically loads a graphical price comparison when you bring up a specific item ( where comparative prices on other Amazon sites are available ) on the Am UK site. This still seems to be working ok, but in view of the above will presumably be canned in due course, which would be a pity as it is very usefull.

[Barbirollians]

That pair of sonatas Lipatti recorded I can never hear played by anyone else without thinking he is beyond compare.

[hafod]

Volume 2 of Sony's Bernstein Edition - Concertos and Orchestral works (ASIN: B00LL4U1TE), has just dropped in price to £60.81 for 80 discs on AmUK. Release date is October 27. Full contents here:

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Sony-Bernstein-Edition/forum/Fx1NP1LTPYN3X6C/Tx2RYVI6CJHYMES/1?_encoding=UTF8&asin=B00LL4U1TE

[Bryn]

Volume 2 of Sony's Bernstein Edition - Concertos and Orchestral works (ASIN: B00LL4U1TE), has just dropped in price to £60.81 for 80 discs on AmUK. Release date is October 27. Full contents here:
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Sony-Bernste...sin=B00LL4U1TE

There seems to be some confusion on the amazon.co.uk site. There it is claimed there are but 60 CDs:

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Leonard-Bernstein-Edition/dp/B00LL4U1TE/

[Pianorak]

It looks as if this is from the complete Ring Cycle - one of the very best on record, but you can get the whole cycle for about thirty quid:
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Ring-Nibelun...gner+ring+bohm

Just listened to Act 1 of Walkuere. Boehm and orchestra brilliant -and the remastering couldn't be better. Reading up on Leonie Rysanek as Sieglinde in wiki: . . . the role in which she was most revered. . . was Sieglinde in Die Walküre. Hmmm.

[verismissimo]

I thought, I sought, I bought.


It looks as if this is from the complete Ring Cycle - one of the very best on record, but you can get the whole cycle for about thirty quid:

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Ring-Nibelungen-R-Wagner/dp/B00AX20AHI/ref=sr_1_1?s=music&ie=UTF8&qid=1409596159&sr=1-1&keywords=wagner+ring+bohm

... and, for a real bargain, it's also included in this set of all the major Wagner operas:

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Wagner-Great-Operas-Bayreuth-Festival/dp/B00159679S/ref=sr_1_3?s=music&ie=UTF8&qid=1409596321&sr=1-3&keywords=wagner+operas%2C+bayreuth

... one of those boxes that works out at just over £1 per disc. Makes the tenner for four CDs seem extortionate!

As ferney indicates, for about £35 you get ten operas across 33 CDs, all from Bayreuth, and including the Bohm Ring.

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Wagner-Great-Operas-Bayreuth-Festival/dp/B00159679S/ref=sr_1_2?s=music&ie=UTF8&qid=1410208183&sr=1-2&keywords=wagner+great+operas

That's about a fiver for the extra six operas!

[Petrushka]

As ferney indicates, for about £35 you get ten operas across 33 CDs, all from Bayreuth, and including the Bohm Ring.

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Wagner-Great-Operas-Bayreuth-Festival/dp/B00159679S/ref=sr_1_2?s=music&ie=UTF8&qid=1410208183&sr=1-2&keywords=wagner+great+operas

That's about a fiver for the extra six operas!

When I think of all the money I spent on the original CD issues of the Böhm Ring in 1986.....:

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

Just listened to Act 1 of Walkuere. Boehm and orchestra brilliant -and the remastering couldn't be better.

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

When I think of all the money I spent on the original CD issues of the Böhm Ring in 1986.....:

Yerrrs; but you have had nearly thirty years joy from them whilst the rest of us waited for the price to come down