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  • Dave2002
    Full Member
    • Dec 2010
    • 18021

    Originally posted by Bryn View Post
    The Goose, along with the Jurowski box, has just stepped in.
    I will be interested to hear how good that Jurowski box sounds. I did look at the web page when it was £31, but couldn’t quite work up enough determination to hit the button.

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    • Bryn
      Banned
      • Mar 2007
      • 24688

      Originally posted by Dave2002 View Post
      I will be interested to hear how good that Jurowski box sounds. I did look at the web page when it was £31, but couldn’t quite work up enough determination to hit the button.
      I am currently listening to disc 2 from the set. Very fine sound and performances of Glinka, Dargomyzhsky, Mussorgsky (both the original and RK version of NoaBM) and Prokofiev. On this limited sampling, I would say, "do not hesitate, if the price is right" (I paid £28.18). The presentation is also rather well done, hardback book style with sturdy slip-case. Just be carefulnot to tip the CDs out whn removing the 'book'from said slip-case.

      Plenty of samples on Youtube:

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      • teamsaint
        Full Member
        • Nov 2010
        • 25210

        Originally posted by Bryn View Post
        I am currently listening to disc 2 from the set. Very fine sound and performances of Glinka, Dargomyzhsky, Mussorgsky (both the original and RK version of NoaBM) and Prokofiev. On this limited sampling, I would say, "do not hesitate, if the price is right" (I paid £28.18). The presentation is also rather well done, hardback book style with sturdy slip-case. Just be carefulnot to tip the CDs out whn removing the 'book'from said slip-case.
        You’re not helping , you know !!

        ( actually you are, I have shifted it up my list .....)
        I will not be pushed, filed, stamped, indexed, briefed, debriefed or numbered. My life is my own.

        I am not a number, I am a free man.

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        • Dave2002
          Full Member
          • Dec 2010
          • 18021

          Originally posted by teamsaint View Post
          You’re not helping , you know !!

          ( actually you are, I have shifted it up my list .....)
          It might help,to keep the 333 at bay ....

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          • vinteuil
            Full Member
            • Nov 2010
            • 12843

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            Originally posted by MickyD View Post
            I've always been interested in your posts and thoughts, Bryn, but the fact that you reveal yourself to be a Will Hay fan endears me even more!
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            Originally posted by Bryn View Post
            Well, my work base was, for a year or so, in Sluff. It was crazy that for years the only version available on disc had some of the best scenes cut from it. Oh, Mr Porter! is another great favourite, though everything he did was a delight.
            ... if you're a Will Hay fan - Monday 12 November, 6:25pm - on Talking Pictures TV (freeview 81) : 'The Black Sheep of Whitehall' [1941]

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            • cloughie
              Full Member
              • Dec 2011
              • 22127

              Originally posted by teamsaint View Post
              You’re not helping , you know !!

              ( actually you are, I have shifted it up my list .....)
              It’s a liitle over £41 - maybe that will reduce your temptation? or maybe you can’t put a price on joy!

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              • MickyD
                Full Member
                • Nov 2010
                • 4774

                Originally posted by vinteuil View Post
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                ... if you're a Will Hay fan - Monday 12 November, 6:25pm - on Talking Pictures TV (freeview 81) : 'The Black Sheep of Whitehall' [1941]

                https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Bl...p_of_Whitehall
                Thanks, Vints...Well spotted! I already have it on DVD, but it's well worth watching if you like vintage comedy.

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                • johnb
                  Full Member
                  • Mar 2007
                  • 2903

                  Originally posted by Dave2002 View Post
                  I will be interested to hear how good that Jurowski box sounds. I did look at the web page when it was £31, but couldn’t quite work up enough determination to hit the button.
                  The Jurowski box has dropped back from £47 to £32 today. Clicked the button.

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                  • vinteuil
                    Full Member
                    • Nov 2010
                    • 12843

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                    ... if anyone has been havering over vol 2 of the 60 CD vivarte box - it's now available for about £45 incl p&p from italian amazon -




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                    • Dave2002
                      Full Member
                      • Dec 2010
                      • 18021

                      Originally posted by vinteuil View Post
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                      ... if anyone has been havering over vol 2 of the 60 CD vivarte box - it's now available for about £45 incl p&p from italian amazon -




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                      Thanks for this. Am I right in thinking it's best to select the "Pay in GBP" option? Given it's a reasonable price anyway perhaps not an issue, but I'm just thinking that if one pays using a UK credit card, the Euro price could attract charges with ones card company.

                      I'm not quite sure what's in the Vivarte II box, but I hit the button anyway.
                      Totale parziale degli articoli: EUR 36,10
                      Costi di spedizione: EUR 3,94
                      Totale IVA esclusa: EUR 40,04
                      IVA: EUR 8,01
                      Totale Ordine: EUR 48,05
                      GBP 43.38*
                      Metodo di pagamento selezionato: Visa

                      Re the Jurowski - it's gone back up to around £40 - I did check.

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                      • MickyD
                        Full Member
                        • Nov 2010
                        • 4774

                        Originally posted by vinteuil View Post
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                        ... if anyone has been havering over vol 2 of the 60 CD vivarte box - it's now available for about £45 incl p&p from italian amazon -




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                        I wanted these and the SEON box, but sadly I am quite simply running out of space!

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                        • Dave2002
                          Full Member
                          • Dec 2010
                          • 18021

                          Originally posted by MickyD View Post
                          I wanted these and the SEON box, but sadly I am quite simply running out of space!
                          Is there a “new” SEON box? I bought one a year or more back. Haven’t played too many of that one. The Vivarte looks good.

                          If space is really the only issue, plastic boxes such as these might help - https://www.amazon.co.uk/Whatmore-11...orage+boxes+cd

                          However they might only give a temporary reprieve, and eventually something has to give, or go.

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                          • vinteuil
                            Full Member
                            • Nov 2010
                            • 12843

                            Originally posted by Dave2002 View Post
                            Is there a “new” SEON box? I bought one a year or more back. Haven’t played too many of that one...
                            ... the only SEON box I'm aware of is this one, which I got when it first came out some years back. Unless MickyD has news??



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                            • gurnemanz
                              Full Member
                              • Nov 2010
                              • 7389

                              There are five Seon discs on this Gustav Leonhardt 80th birthday set which I acquired ten years ago. They seem to be the only discs I have from that label and while they are well worth having, I note that they do not offer great length per disc value - around 40 -50 minutes. If that is the case for a large number of the 85 discs on that box, you are not getting a favourable shelf space to time ratio.

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                              • Dave2002
                                Full Member
                                • Dec 2010
                                • 18021

                                Originally posted by vinteuil View Post
                                ... the only SEON box I'm aware of is this one, which I got when it first came out some years back. Unless MickyD has news??



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                                Wow - that's pricey. I didn't pay anything like that. That's the only one I know about too.

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