Bargains

[Dave2002]

Jazz for a change -

Bill Evans - 6 CDs for £9 - http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B...e_epc__1p_7_im

[MLF]

Bartok Complete Edition - 29 discs worth available download only for £7.49.

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Complete-Edition-29CD-BOX/dp/B000050J1O

Can anyone speak to the quality of this?


CAUTION: PLEASE READ DISCUSSION BELOW BEFORE BUYING - THIS APPEARS TO BE A DOWNLOAD OF A SINGLE DISC

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

Bartok Complete Edition - 29 discs worth available download only for £7.49.

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Complete-Edition-29CD-BOX/dp/B000050J1O

Can anyone speak to the quality of this?

Ermm - the link takes me to a single CD (with only 40mins of Music on!) from the box at £7.49, not the entire 29 CD Boxed set! (THe Hungaraton recordings are splendid - the complete set at £7.49 would have been the bargain of bargains!)

[Bryn]

Bartok Complete Edition - 29 discs worth available download only for £7.49.

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Complete-Edition-29CD-BOX/dp/B000050J1O

Can anyone speak to the quality of this?

IIRC it's the old Hungaraton edition, not the current one. I downloaded it a good while back and find it a good general fall-back for Bartok works I have no other recordings of. Plenty of fine versions in there of works I do have alternative recordings of. Well worth the asking price.

[Beef Oven!]

There are only 20 pieces on that Bartok download so unless Celibidache, Leif Segerstam or Leonard Bernstein are conducting, it'll never stretch to 29 discs.

[Bryn]

Scant details are offered via my smart phone. I know I paid very little for the download of the old Hungaraton Complete Bartok, but it was a few years back.

[MLF]

OK, am confused now - the title plainly says "29 CD Box", but the link as you say does not deliver on that.

Presto Classical purport to have the set on download for £8 - although I cannot tell whether that is similarly misleading.

http://www.prestoclassical.co.uk/r/Hungaroton/HCD41002#download

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

OK, am confused now - the title plainly says "29 CD Box", but the link as you say does not deliver on that.

Presto Classical purport to have the set on download for £8 - although I cannot tell whether that is similarly misleading.

http://www.prestoclassical.co.uk/r/H...41002#download

No - they seem to be reproducing the same single CD as Amazon - with the short running time of just over forty minutes!

[MLF]

Gah!

[teamsaint]

No - they seem to be reproducing the same single CD as Amazon - with the short running time of just over forty minutes!

there are many examples of this on Amazon.
beware.

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

Gah!

Indeed! - the 29Cds (even of the older Hungaraton recordings) for £7.49 would have been quite special!

[MLF]

In fairness, I have achieved even better bargains as a result of this thread. Generally, I suspect, due to a misplaced decimal point.

[Dave2002]

Checking out some recordings from East Germany, and in particular some by Kurt Sanderling I came across this Bruckner set - http://www.amazon.co.uk/Bruckner-Com...urt+sanderling - around £15 from the market place sellers. I've sampled some of the performances from streaming sites - probably not bad at all - 9CDs. Actually Sanderling doesn't feature on many - most of the performances are conducted by Heinz Rögner - but I tried some of those and they sounded OK too.

This Mahler 9 from Sanderling is rather good - http://www.amazon.co.uk/Mahler-Symph.../dp/B000088DTK Again the market place people have it cheaply - around £5-6, or used for somewhat less.

The same work is also available on one CD conducted by Abbado - http://www.amazon.co.uk/Mahler-Symph...JYJQ8T32M6T4XB

What I'd really like to know is how Sanderling's version with the BBC Philharmonic compares - http://www.amazon.co.uk/Mahler-Symph...C+Philharmonic Of his (apparently) 4 recorded versions, that and the Berlin SO version seem to be the top two. I have heard the Berlin SO version.

[crb11]

I got the Bruckner set on the basis of this MusicWebInternational review. Only number 3 is conducted by Sanderling. Well worth it for Rogner's 4,5 and 6 alone: I'm not sure his approach works so well for 8 and 9 - admittedly my taste there is for slower recordings in general. I don't recall Sanderling's 3 as being particularly memorable.

[gurnemanz]

Thanks to Dave for East German Bruckner tip. My wife grew up in Leipzig and we are always on the lookout. Recent worthwhile acquisitions have been:

Kowitschny Beethoven Syphonies

Herbert Kegel Legendary - reviewed here - very eclectic mostly 20th C box.