Bargains

[johnb]

Hmm....many thanks for your helpful comments, but it looks like I may be out of my depth here! Thanks anyway.

Sorry to have made it sound forbidding. Just download and install mp3tag. Open the software. Select File/Change Directory and point to the folder containing the Melos mp3 files. It will then display all the individual files and their tags. (You can scroll to see see tags off the screen to the left, change the display size for the tags or change their display positions, e.g. you can drag the Track heading to a more convenient place.)

You will then be able to see what the problem is. To edit any track/file - just click on it and the details will appear in the panel on the left. Edit what you want and then click on the floppy disc button, at the top, to save those edits. Easy! (Though a bit tedious.)

[Parry1912]

MDT are doing an EMI clearance. Some good prices:

http://www.mdt.co.uk/special-offers/...ter-20-08-2012

[mathias broucek]

MDT are doing an EMI clearance. Some good prices:

http://www.mdt.co.uk/special-offers/...ter-20-08-2012

And now I've gone and purchased even more CDs...... NOT the plan!

There are some outstanding Rattle deals here (Mahler, British, Beethoven) plus Beecham's Haydn, a tempting 20th Century box and some vocal ICONs.

PS Thanks Parry

[Dave2002]

mmmm .. Still processing that EMI list. There are only 220 or so items on offer.

Whilst doing so I cross referenced amazon and other sources, and thought I'd check out Slatkin.
http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/offer-lis...&condition=new VW symphonies

Slatkin doing VW might be a good thing. I know he was not universally loved while over here, but from the VW Prom programme last week I noticed/was reminded that he'd done a pretty decent VW performance at the Proms in 2008 - which I attended.

At under £10 from market place vendors this might be worth having or around £15 direct from amazon.

[Parry1912]

Whilst doing so I cross referenced amazon and other sources, and thought I'd check out Slatkin.
http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/offer-lis...&condition=new

At under £10 from market place vendors this might be worth having or around £15 direct from amazon.

I bought it from that vendor at that price although I haven't got around to listening to it yet. I am looking forward to hearing it.

Having already bought Rattle's Mahler box I was gutted when I saw the price that MDT are doing it for now.

Dare I say that it's an obligatory purchase at that price?

[Dave2002]

Unfortunately I also have the Rattle Mahler, which I thought was a bargain when I bought it. I've settled for Beethoven instead. Also the 20th and 19th Century masterpieces boxes look good (though I may have the 20th C already - can't check right now, so ordered anyway), plus the Composers in Person. A few others - Kovacevich doing Beethoven and Schubert. Leif Ove Andnes doing Schubert and songs and Schuman's violin concerto c/w Bernstein, hence the Slatkin interest. Bach with Kuijken was also appealing. Oh - and Show Boat!

I wonder if EMI will ever get round to issuing Kovacevich in Beethoven and Schubert in complete sets at affordable prices? I keep picking up odd ones in dribs and drabs, and they keep releasing them in new combinations - there's yet another Kovacevich 2CD collection to be released shortly. According to MDT some of the ones on offer will be deleted soon, but do I believe them? [obviously - the word "some" is not the same as "all"]

[gurnemanz]

A few very good boxes which I have already (having paid slightly more for them) - Icons Gedda, Hans Hotter + Christa Ludwig and the Composers in Pesrson. At MDT's price I couldn't resist the two Record of Singing boxes.

[mathias broucek]

.... but from the VW Prom programme last week I noticed/was reminded that he'd done a pretty decent VW performance at the Proms in 2008 - which I attended.

That was a good concert. I too have partaken.

EMI and Sony are swelling my shelves far too rapidly. The Renier/Strauss and Abbado/Tchaik sets arrived yesterday for £9 + P&P

[Parry1912]

EMI and Sony are swelling my shelves far too rapidly.

Don't forget Membran! I still haven't worked out where I'm going to keep the 'Masters of Music' box.

[visualnickmos]

Whilst doing so I cross referenced amazon and other sources, and thought I'd check out Slatkin.
http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/offer-lis...&condition=new VW symphonies

Slatkin doing VW might be a good thing...

Indeed - a VERY good thing. This a set that any RVW collector will want. It is always good to hear interpretations that are not 100% English, if I can put it - somewhat crudely - like that. The Boults, Barbirollis and Handleys are, of course indispensible...