BaL 8.10.11 Tchaikovsky's Queen of Spades

[Stanley Stewart]

Worth checking the Tchaikovsky Edition (Brilliant Classics) with HMV or Amazon, EA. Both quote £69 99 for the 60CD set with free postage. In turn, Presto's asking price is £83 70 + postage.

[Eine Alpensinfonie]

Thanks for that. Does anyone make even the tiniest profit on these ultra-cheap bulk issues?

[reinerfan]

The Tchaikovsky set is available from Amazon España at 52,57 Euros, of which I took advantage. A most interesting set.

[mikealdren]

Does anyone make even the tiniest profit on these ultra-cheap bulk issues?

That's an interesting question. The answer must be yes or they wouldn't do it.

If you look at the cost of a new disk, there's the cost of recording which the reissue doesn't have and the costs of production, sales, advertising etc. which I suspect are not much more for a 60 disk set than a single disk. On this basis, a set at £70 may actually be very profitable compared with a single disk reissue at £6. What do others think?

Mike

[verismissimo]

Just ordered the Brilliant box - under £60 from Regis via Amazon. All those hard to get operas etc!

[Eine Alpensinfonie]

That's an interesting question. The answer must be yes or they wouldn't do it.

If you look at the cost of a new disk, there's the cost of recording which the reissue doesn't have and the costs of production, sales, advertising etc. which I suspect are not much more for a 60 disk set than a single disk. On this basis, a set at £70 may actually be very profitable compared with a single disk reissue at £6. What do others think?

Mike

But at little over a pound a disc, including licensing, production, distribution, royalties. Even postage in some cases. It's amazing.

[Eine Alpensinfonie]

I've just bought the Gergiev set. Amazing stuff, though the Kirov Orchestra sounds a little boxed-in, Bayreuth-style. I was surprised it wasn't recommended in the BaL broadcast.
I went rather silly a couple of weeks ago and bought sets of all the available Tchaikovsky operas. That's all of them apart from the destroyed Undina and Vakula the Smith, which the composer later revised as Cherevichki. Both of those unavailable ones were broadcast in the Radio 3 Tchaikovsky Experience a few years ago.