The well-regarded cycle of Shostakovich String Quartets recorded by the Pacifica Quartet, plus quartets by contemporaries such as Miaskovsky, Prokofiev, Schnittke and Weinberg has been re-released as a single package (all four double CDs in a cardboard sleeve so you get all the original booklets) which is available for not much over £20 from Amazon Marketplace or, for those averse to Amazon, just over £25 from MDT. See
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The SEON box arrived today. No packing note but the return address is shown as Dunfermline. I received the dispatch email yesterday. 1 day delivery from amazon.fr? I think not. Looks like it came from amazon.co.uk, but at the amazon.fr price, not that I'm complaining.Comment
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Beethoven: Complete Quartets. Tokyo Quartet - sacd harmonia mundi. Just reduced on Amuk to £15.12. The ASIN is B00L5J4PYCComment
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not the bargain of all time, but market place price for the John Ireland /Alan Rowlands triple set has been dropping slowly.
Probably the time to buy, I would suggest .
about £13 inc p and p, around half of the tax dodgers full price.I will not be pushed, filed, stamped, indexed, briefed, debriefed or numbered. My life is my own.
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No doubt the price will drop but £72 for 40 CDs of Pierre Monteux's recordings for RCA seems good value.
Some discs will have short playing time by today's standards though, as the contents seem to duplicate the contents of the original LP. For example, CD 15 appears to contain Le Sacre on its own. Some of the stereo recordings may well be in the two Living Stereo collections which some may have already bought. So, a possible bargain for some but not all.Comment
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TS - very tempted but am wondering about the recording quality?? Described as "front room mono" which isn't necessarily a bad thing but I just wondered what you thought, before I go ahead at such a keen priceOriginally posted by teamsaint View PostComment
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Rats! I pre-ordered this set from Amazon France at what I thought was a great price (about £24) - I should have waited. The excellent SACD recordings make it a good buy. Without wanting to seem to be damning the performances with faint praise, they are never less than reliable and at times (Op 132 for instance) rather more than that.Originally posted by hafod View PostComment
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Oh I don'tknow it, HD, sorry, just been following the price, as I really want to order up some Ireland Piano music.Originally posted by HighlandDougie View Post
Perhaps this is one of the performances?
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That's an accurate description - you may get used to it, but it's not flattering.Originally posted by HighlandDougie View PostComment
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Any wise thoughts where else to go for Ireland Piano music, PJ?Originally posted by PJPJ View Post
The Parkin set also available at around £12.Last edited by teamsaint; 02-10-14, 18:29.I will not be pushed, filed, stamped, indexed, briefed, debriefed or numbered. My life is my own.
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Interesting one this as there is also a Sony set at a similar price, but not, I think, SACD. Is this one surround sound, or two channel SACD? Looks good, anyway.Originally posted by hafod View PostComment
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The Harmonia Mundi set is multichannel SACD. The Sony BMG box is of their early 1990s cycle (when its leader was Peter Oundjian, now at the RSNO as well as still being Principal Conductor of the Toronto Symphony Orchestra).Originally posted by Dave2002 View PostComment
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Karajan Symphony Edition for £27.60 at AmazonDel boy: “Get in, get out, don’t look back. That’s my motto!”Comment
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