Bargains

[Beef Oven!]

Vagn Holmboe - Complete symphonies, BIS.

£15.99. 16bit CD quality Qobuz download.

I recommend this music very much. Paid about £45 for this set some years back, currently around the £50 mark on Amazon.

http://www.qobuz.com/gb-en/album/holmboe-complete-symphonies-vagn-holmboe/7318598438468?qref=dac_4

[johnb]

A few years vint I think it was alerted us to the imminent arrival of a Julian Bream box. It did come eventually, and I think it was available for under £100 (by at least a fair margin ..) A few years on and even the used sets are over £200, with new sets being advertised for over £500. Perhaps if I get a big win on the lottery (unlikely as I hardly ever "play"....) I'll buy it anyway.
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Julian-Brea...+Bream+box+set

If you don't mind downloads Presto Classical have the Julian Bream at £66 for mp3 (320 kbps) or £86 for FLAC.

Of course you wouldn't have the original jackets or the very nice physical book that comes with the set.

If you do buy the download and if they don't include the individual sleeve jpgs - send me a pm (1000x1000 pixels).

[Cockney Sparrow]

As the eclassical download site (operated by but not limited to BIS) has been mentioned - I usually check the eclassical daily deal - http://www.eclassical.com/. (And for their new issue/bundle offers - TIP if you go to their bundles page try checking "All" "Month" etc options as web programs behave differently and suddenly a lot more can show up)

The comments from the proprietor of BIS (Robert van Bahr - I apologise if mispelt - are informative and sometimes refreshingly honest. Such as today

The Complete Organ Music by Niels W. Gade……. A very talented Dane, who worked much in Germany together with Mendelssohn, he didn't anyway write very much for the organ. I personally would be tempted to say that what he did write was absolutely enough. A not-so-nice way is to say that you don't have to buy a lot of Melatonin for lots of money to fall asleep. Just spend less than 4 bucks for this, and you're set for life. Nice but not earth-shattering in any way.

[soileduk]

Vagn Holmboe - Complete symphonies, BIS.

£15.99. 16bit CD quality Qobuz download.

I recommend this music very much. Paid about £45 for this set some years back, currently around the £50 mark on Amazon.

http://www.qobuz.com/gb-en/album/holmboe-complete-symphonies-vagn-holmboe/7318598438468?qref=dac_4

Good shout. Another hole filled.

https://www.highresaudio.com/artist.php?abid=611570

24/96 download of all 3 albums for £17.

[Bryn]

Now here's a strange and quite unexpected 'bargain'. Last month I 'pre-ordered' the Simone Young Bruckner survey from Amazon.co.uk. As is so often the case, there was a 'free' supplement to the ordered CD boxed set, i.e. mp3 downloads. I was not that interested in the mp3s, so have not until today checked them out, and then only by chance when seeking to download the 'free' mp3s offered with Jed Speare's Sound Works 1982-87. To my surprise and delight, the mp3s they have made available to me in conjunction with the Simone Young boxed set are not those of the Simone Young survey but that of Kurt Eichhorn, replete with the 1992 version of the SPMC completion of the Finale of the 9th. Since they would otherwise have set me back £33.35 for the mp3s and CDs or, bizarrely, £41.88 for just the mp3s, I hope my satisfaction with this error on the tax dodgers' part will be understood. Oh, as I have previously mentioned, the Simone Young boxed set was delivered at the end of last month.

[Beef Oven!]

Edmund Rubbra - Complete String Quartets £4.99. CDs - http://www.duttonvocalion.co.uk/prod...prod=LXBOX2010
Dante Quartet

Label: Dutton

[Dave2002]

Edmund Rubbra - Complete String Quartets £4.99. CDs - http://www.duttonvocalion.co.uk/prod...prod=LXBOX2010
Dante Quartet

Couldn't find that on Qobuz, but I did find this - http://player.qobuz.com/#!/track/12352966 with Michael Dussek.

Rubbra
Prelude and Fugue on a theme of Cyril Scott, Op. 69.
Sonatina Op. 19
etc.

I hear you liked the Richard Barrett concert.

[Parry1912]

Edmund Rubbra - Complete String Quartets £4.99. CDs - http://www.duttonvocalion.co.uk/prod...prod=LXBOX2010
Dante Quartet

Duly ordered. Thanks, Beef.

[Keraulophone]

a "mountain" (a small alp, really) of 'big boxes'

Strictly speaking, an alp isn't an entire mountain but the high pasture on which alpine cattle graze during the summer months, returning to the valleys in winter - the traditional practice of transhumance. German Alp or Alm (meaning "seasonal mountain pasture", from Old High German alpa, alba). Therefore if your CDs are sitting on an alp, they are already accommodated on a high shelf.

[Beef Oven!]

Duly ordered. Thanks, Beef.

Wish I’d seen it before I bought my set a few days earlier!

[HighlandDougie]

Strictly speaking, an alp isn't an entire mountain but the high pasture on which alpine cattle graze during the summer months, returning to the valleys in winter - the traditional practice of transhumance. German Alp or Alm (meaning "seasonal mountain pasture", from Old High German alpa, alba). Therefore if your CDs are sitting on an alp, they are already accommodated on a high shelf.

Great photo! I feel a listen to Honegger's "Pastorale d'Été" coming on ....

[hafod]

Complete Beethoven String 4tets - Tokyo Qt. New and less than £8 delivered from AmUK m/place.

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Tokyo-String-Quartet-play-Beethoven/dp/B008BOWG7C

[Dave2002]

Complete Beethoven String 4tets - Tokyo Qt. New and less than £8 delivered from AmUK m/place.
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Tokyo-Strin.../dp/B008BOWG7C

Is that better or just different from the one on Harmonia Mundi which I bought a couple of years ago?

[hafod]

Well, one is not comparing like with like as significant changes of personnel have taken place. Sound is superior on the HM set (even when not in sacd mode). Much has been written/reviewed about both versions and not always (as is often the case in such matters) with agreement. Both versions have much to say and if one loves these works then at less than 8 quid it must be worth a punt. Some bones to pick over:

http://www.musicweb-international.com/classrev/2014/Dec14/Beethoven_quartets_HMU807641.htm

http://www.classical.net/music/recs/reviews/r/rca97578a.php

http://www.arkivmusic.com/classical/album.jsp?album_id=511609

http://www.hraudio.net/showmusic.php?title=10006#reviews

[MickyD]

The complete organ works of J.S. Bach from Hanssler - 20 CD's for 9 euros! Looks a bit of a mixed bag with various performers, but at that price, one can't grumble!

https://www.amazon.de/gp/product/B00CBEA5M6/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&psc=1&linkCode=sl1&tag=bonsplanscl00-21&linkId=d6a3c9df7cafb4389c46560bd53dba8a