Bargains

[EdgeleyRob]

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/B00...46560bd53dba8a

Ordered,thanks MickyD

[MickyD]

I think it was worth a punt, Rob - they seem to be newish recordings on old instruments. I'd be interested to know what you think of the set.

[Bryn]

I think it was worth a punt, Rob - they seem to be newish recordings on old instruments. I'd be interested to know what you think of the set.

i would have been tempted had I not already got them in the 172 CD Hänssler Classic Bachakademie survey which I and other here got when they were going for just under £100 a decade or so ago.

[hafod]

Radu Lupu: Complete Recordings - 28 cd: £34 (Almost £10 less than hitherto).

https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B013L20KIA/

[teamsaint]

gigantic box of Bach.

think this usually goes for over £100.

https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B00L2SQVS4/ref=s9_acsd_bw_wf_a_x_mdl?pf_rd_m=A3P5ROKL5A1OLE&pf_rd_s=center-1&pf_rd_r=RF8494EZVYJMRWFG3KW0&pf_rd_t=101&pf_rd_p=0&pf_rd_i=283155

[hafod]

10 cd box of French organ music (1650-1800): €14.99.

https://www.jpc.de/jpcng/classic/detail/-/art/l-orgue-classique-francais-1650-1800/hnum/8363205

[Rolmill]

The Decca composite box of HIPP Haydn symphonies (Hogwood, Bruggen, Dantone) now £39.65 for 35 CDs here, which seems like quite a bargain to me. As I only have two of the performances already (the BBC MM CD of Hogwood's 76 and 77), I have ordered it as a Christmas present to myself.

I have the Fischer complete set, but fewer than half of the symphonies in HIPP performances (a mix of Kuijken, Goodman and Minkowski), so am really looking forward to immersing myself in this set over the festive period.

[MickyD]

The Decca composite box of HIPP Haydn symphonies (Hogwood, Bruggen, Dantone) now £39.65 for 35 CDs here, which seems like quite a bargain to me. As I only have two of the performances already (the BBC MM CD of Hogwood's 76 and 77), I have ordered it as a Christmas present to myself.

I have the Fischer complete set, but fewer than half of the symphonies in HIPP performances (a mix of Kuijken, Goodman and Minkowski), so am really looking forward to immersing myself in this set over the festive period.

That's a fantastic bargain indeed, and it will provide you with hours of enjoyment. A wonderful price - I paid that for the individual Hogwood boxes when they first came out!

[teamsaint]

anybody got this?

https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B00I595C6U/ref=olp_product_details?_encoding=UTF8&colid=QKL316A1U4BB&coliid=I3S4GUN4AT3N8L&me=

50 Great recordings, Sony.

quite a bit in there that I fancy, just wondered what other folks paid? price looks fairly steady at just over £40 from this tracker.

http://uk.camelcamelcamel.com/50-Great-Recordings-Various/product/B00I595C6U?context=browse&active=summary

[mikealdren]

anybody got this?

https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B00I595C6U/ref=olp_product_details?_encoding=UTF8&colid=QKL316A1U4BB&coliid=I3S4GUN4AT3N8L&me=

50 Great recordings, Sony.
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It's a very wide ranging mix, not quite sure who the target audience would really be for such a box. That said, it's a very well chosen set, some excellent stuff in there. I just seem to have a lot of it.

Mike

[teamsaint]

It's a very wide ranging mix, not quite sure who the target audience would really be for such a box. That said, it's a very well chosen set, some excellent stuff in there. I just seem to have a lot of it.

Mike

thanks Mike. Yes its certainly a wide ranging mix. A couple of duplicates for me, but plenty that I think look interesting enough to be worth the outlay.

I think I must be the target audience !!

[Pulcinella]

thanks Mike. Yes its certainly a wide ranging mix. A couple of duplicates for me, but plenty that I think look interesting enough to be worth the outlay.

I think I must be the target audience !!

And according to the Amazon listing (why oh why do they not include the composer?) there's some interesting listening in store on CD14: Des Knaben Wunderschon!

[hafod]

For fans of Roger Norrington (and that includes me) - 10cd box 'The Romantics' Hanssler €10 (£12.37 delivered).

https://www.amazon.de/gp/product/B00H5DNAB6/

[Cockney Sparrow]

The Advent offers on Downloads have started on eclassical. Four titles offered at 50% discount each day - BIS but also other labels. They bill it as for Hi-Res recordings, but for those of us who can't hear the difference, there is a lower price for CD quality.

http://www.eclassical.com/

On that page is the link to the daily deal, which I check most days. Apart from the chance of the saving offered, I rather like the comments on the recording - for example today's (Sibelius - Orchestral Songs (Cat no:BIS-270 CD) :

A tumultuous recording, this. Should have been conducted by a (later) famous Finnish conductor, but his agency kept everyone in suspense until the last possible moment and then tried to blackmail us into conditions that were wholly unjustifiable for a debutant - much more than any established conductor. All this against the conductor's wishes - he really wanted to do this production. Such was the power of certain megalomaniac agents! So his teacher, the world-famous teacher Jorma Panula, very kindly stepped in and did a great job of this, Sibelius's orchestral songs with Mari Anne Häggander and the great Jorma Hynninen as soloists, all together with the Gothenburg SO. But I didn't have many nails left at the time!

I've kept a note of some of albums offered in the past on the Daily Deal:

Örhängen (Earrings):

This is the internationally famous STAR, Elisabeth Söderström, letting her hair down, singing Swedish popular songs and ballads with a lot of friends (even I get to sing background in it...). I must share a story with you. So here is one of the world's most famous sopranos coming to my attic to record. What shall I cook? What would her requirements be? How should she be treated? I was quite worried. Well, very early (about 6.30 a.m.) the telephone goes off (I thought, here comes a cancellation). Hi, it's Elisabeth. - Y-y-y-eees? -Well, I wondered, if I could borrow your kitchen. - Eeeeh?????? - You see, I figured, we'll be there all day, several days, a lot of guys and me, so I figured that I'll cook for you in the breaks, so we don't have to waste time by driving somewhere. Would that be all right? // Well, that's Lizzie for you. What a wonderful person she was! So warm and full of life. And you can hear it here!

Paul Kletzki - Symphony No.3 In memoriam:

Also this is one of the hidden treasures and main discoveries in the BIS catalogue. After a long detective work, well described in the booklet, the 3rd Symphony by famed conductor Paul Kletzki was discovered/found, and Thomas Sanderling and the faithful Norrköping SO went to work. The symphony, which deals with the painful happenings in WW2, is a truly gripping work of some 45 minutes. As a filler there's another World Première Recording, the Flute Concertino with Sharon Bezaly as a soloist. An important release that has not achieved the importance it should have

Jón Leifs - Hekla and other orchestral works

Another crash-bang-wham from Iceland's possibly foremost composer, Jón Leifs. Here is the infamous Hekla that tries to depict a volcano eruption with a symphony orchestra with - sit down - THIRTY-FIVE (yes, 35!) percussionists in addition to the normal orchestra. Free earplugs were distributed to the orchestra prior to the recording and I remember the ashen grey faces of the Producer and Engineer, when they came home. But it is interesting music, very much in Jón's style, and also recommended for testing of equipment...

[mathias broucek]

Thanks Cockney. There's a hi res P Jarvi DSCH 7 that has tempted me today....