Bal 19.05.18 - Handel: Concerti a due cori

[Bryn]

Oh, I love it when they do this, Bbm: the boxes are usually very cheap (although they've increased in price recently) and superb recordings that I've missed (because individual CDs were full-price) become affordable: that's my kind of "marketing ploy"! My most recent purchase is the SONY Salonen Stravinsky box - all seven discs for less than the shop price of a single full-price CD, and a superb overview of the composer - but my shelves have many such boxes.

More frustrating are big boxes like the Tafelmusik collection Bryn links to: I already have the Haydn and Mozart discs (on a couple of those SONY composer boxes, as it happens!) - do I invest in the megabox, and pass on the discs I have to charity shops? (But then, I'll have to rearrange the shelving & storage .... )

I got the 47 disc box from amazon.de back in December 2015 when it cost just £30.73 including p&p. It's gone up a little since then.

[Bryn]

... and in a smaller (6 CD) box with more Handel (although, sadly, not the Op6 ) and Purcell, Geminiani, etc:

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Handel-Gemi.../dp/B005TLWO68

I don't think Tafelmusik have recorded Op. 6, though their Op. 3 is pretty good.

[Mal]

... the lack of the Op.6 set would be a serious omission for me...

There's a Hogwood Op. 6 on a double decca:

https://smile.amazon.co.uk/Handel-Concerti-Grossi-Op-6-CDs/dp/B001MT9GLC

... although with a band I've never heard of, not AAM.

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

There's a Hogwood Op. 6 on a double decca:
https://smile.amazon.co.uk/Handel-Co.../dp/B001MT9GLC

... although with a band I've never heard of, not AAM.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Handel_and_Haydn_Society

[BBMmk2]

Oh, I love it when they do this, Bbm: the boxes are usually very cheap (although they've increased in price recently) and superb recordings that I've missed (because individual CDs were full-price) become affordable: that's my kind of "marketing ploy"! My most recent purchase is the SONY Salonen Stravinsky box - all seven discs for less than the shop price of a single full-price CD, and a superb overview of the composer - but my shelves have many such boxes.

More frustrating are big boxes like the Tafelmusik collection Bryn links to: I already have the Haydn and Mozart discs (on a couple of those SONY composer boxes, as it happens!) - do I invest in the megabox, and pass on the discs I have to charity shops? (But then, I'll have to rearrange the shelving & storage .... )

The re-masterings be worth it then?

[Bryn]

The re-masterings be worth it then?

You do not always get re-masterings, by any means. All too often 1980s transfers get churned out again in 'new' multi-disc boxed sets. That said, the pro-rata cost of the discs is often just too tempting.

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

You do not always get re-masterings, by any means. All too often 1980s transfers get churned out again in 'new' multi-disc boxed sets. That said, the pro-rata cost of the discs is often just too tempting.

Exactly so.

[MickyD]

There's a Hogwood Op. 6 on a double decca:

https://smile.amazon.co.uk/Handel-Concerti-Grossi-Op-6-CDs/dp/B001MT9GLC

... although with a band I've never heard of, not AAM.

It's an American period instrument band with which Hogwood worked on a number of projects. They appear on the Op.3 set of the big Handel box we are talking about, which is why I found it so odd that their recordings of Op.6 were not included in it .

[richardfinegold]

Is this BAL the same day as the Royal Wedding? If so, will all dedicated Forumites be conflicted?

[greenilex]

Not if the sun is shining and the wind is on the lea.

[BBMmk2]

Not if the sun is shining and the wind is on the lea.

Very true. Me and MrsBBM will be watching! I think this Royal House aren't doing a too bad a job.

[Eine Alpensinfonie]

Is this BAL the same day as the Royal Wedding? If so, will all dedicated Forumites be conflicted?

There'll be endless repeats and mega-gushing over the wedding, but BaL is unique.

[cloughie]

Not if the sun is shining and the wind is on the lea.

But Jolly Roger Norrington hasn’t recorded them!

[doversoul1]

Just started. Splendid sound of horns from a splendidly named ensemble German Natural Horn Players.

[Tony Halstead]

Just started. Splendid sound of horns from a splendidly named ensemble German Natural Horn Players.

Agreed, but why use an organ rather than an orchestra?