Bargains

[hafod]

Dhm-Edition Box-Set - 100cds €100 on Amazon Germany (no price on UK site) and due for release on 24 November.

https://www.amazon.de/Dhm-Various/dp/B0765S8NY4

Details scarce and the usual Amazon maniacal track listing. However, a poster on another board has pieced together a listing which might be helpful despite the occasional omission or indeed mistake. He also notes that there appears to be only a fraction of overlap with the previous two 50cd Dhm boxes. Given the numbers on these boards interested in the Baroque and it's fringes, it may be helpful to share this list before the inevitable price rise. Herewith the list:

Disc: 1 C.P.E. Bach: Hamburger Sinfonien & Concertos
Disc: 2 C.P.E. Bach: Magnificat & Cello Concerto - Collegium Aureum
Disc: 3 C.P.E. Bach: Sonatas and Fantasies – Andreas Staier
Disc: 4-5 Bach: Art of Fugue - Collegium Aureum
Disc: 6-7 Bach: Brandenburg Concertos - La Petite Bande
Disc: 8 Bach: Goldberg Variations
Disc: 9-10 Bach: Lute Suites
Disc: 11-12 Bach: St. John’s Passion - La Petite Band
Disc: 13 Bach: Organ Works
Disc: 14 Bach: Bauern & Coffee Cantata - Collegium Aureum
Disc: 15 Bach: Wedding Cantatas - Collegium Aureum
Disc: 16-17 Bach: Suites for Solo Violin
Disc: 18-19 Biber: Rosary Sonatas
Disc: 20 Bocchierini: Cello Concertos - Bylsma / Tafelmusik
Disc: 21 Buxtehude: Sonatas - Capriccio Stravagante
Disc: 22 Buxtehude: Organ Music
Disc: 23 Caccini: Le Nouve Musiche
Disc: 24 Corelli: Concerti Grossi, Op. 6 - Tafelmusik
Disc: 25 Josquin de Pres - Ensemble La Sestina
Disc: 26 Frescobaldi: Canzonas - Musica Fiata
Disc: 27 Christobal Galan: Fire & Ice - Accentus Austria
Disc: 28 Geminiani: Concerti Grossi - La Petite Bande
Disc: 29 Francisci Guerrero: The Angel’s Voice - Ensemble La Sestina
Disc: 30-32 Handel: Concerti Grossi - Collegium Aureum
Disc: 33-35 Handel: Rodelinda - La Stagione Frankfurt
Disc: 36 Handel: Water Music - English Baroque Soloists
Disc: 37-38 Handel: Sonatas for Wind Instruments - Camerata Köln
Disc: 39 Haydn: Sinfonia Concertante - La Petite Bande
Disc: 40-41 Haydn: The Creation - Balthasar-Neumann-Ensemble
Disc: 42 Haydn: Symphonies - La Petite Bande
Disc: 43 Haydn: Symphonies - Collegium Aureum
Disc: 44 Literes: Acis y Galatea - Al Ayre Español
Disc: 45 Locatelli: 6 Introduttioni teatrale - Freiburger Barockorchester
Disc: 46 Lully: Divertissements - Capriccio Stravagante
Disc: 47 Martines: Il Primo Amore - La Floridiana
Disc: 48 Martino: Lute Trios - The Age of Passions
Disc: 49 Mozart: Piano Trios - Mozart Trio, Salzburg
Disc: 50-51 Mozart: Zaide - Concentus Musicus Wien
Disc: 52 Monteverdi: Madrigals - Capriccio Stravagante
Disc: 53-54 Monteverdi: Vespers - Cantus Cölln / Concerto Palatino
Disc: 55 Navas & Torres: Penitential Music - Al Ayre Español
Disc: 56 Pachelbel & Bach: Motets - Cantus Cölln
Disc: 57 Purcell: Suites - Freiburger Barockorchester
Disc: 58 Rameau: Les Indes Galantes & Dardanus Suites - Collegium Aureum
Disc: 59-61 Rameau: Zoroastre - La Petite Bande
Disc: 62 Suites
Disc: 63 Cypriano de Rore: St. John Passion - Huelgas Ensemble
Disc: 64 Rosenmüller: Sacri Concerti - Cantus Cölln
Disc: 65 Schein: Diletti Pastorali - Cantus Cölln
Disc: 66 Schütz: Il Primo Libro de Madrigali - The Consort of Musicke
Disc: 67-68 Schütz: Psalms, Motets, Concertos
Disc: 69-70 Schütz: Symphoniae Sacrae III (1650)
Disc: 71 Schubert: Die Winterreise
Disc: 72 Telemann: Three Secular Cantatas - Collegium Aureum
Disc: 73-74 Telemann: Orpheus - L'Orfeo Barockorchester
Disc: 75 Telemann: Concertos & Ouvertures - Freiburger Barockorchester
Disc: 76 Telemann: Die Tageszeiten - Collegium Musicum Freiburg
Disc: 77-78 Velasco: La Purpura de la rosa - The Harp Consort
Disc: 79 Villancicos - Al Ayre Español
Disc: 80-81: Zavateri: Concerti da Chiesa e da Camera- Freiburger Barockorchester
Disc: 82: Zelenka/Pisendel Concerti - Freiburger Barockorchester
Disc: 83 Lamentationes Jeremiae - Schola Cantorum Basiliensis
Disc: 84 Bradford Tracey: Purcell
Disc: 85 Thomas Hengelbrock and Balthasar-Neumann Chor & Ensemble
Disc: 86 Andrew Lawrence-King: His Majesty's Harper
Disc: 87 Al Ayre Español
Disc: 88 Ensemble Oni Wytars: Mediterrenum
Disc: 89 Le Trio Royal
Disc: 90 Salzburger Bachchor: Motets
Disc: 91 ?
Disc: 92 Graduale Sarisburiense (15th Century) - Pro Cantione Antiqua
Disc: 93 Musique a Versailles (Kuiken etc.)
Disc: 94 Jose De Nebra: Misere - Al Ayre Español
Disc: 95 Ensemble Melpomen: Sapho and Her Time
Disc: 96 Los Otros: Tinto
Disc: 97 ?
Disc: 98 Christmas Music
Disc: 99 Christmas Music - Tölzer Knabenchor

Too much duplication for me.

Now listed at the same price on jpc but the tracklist is not very helpful.

https://www.jpc.de/jpcng/classic/detail/-/art/dhm-edition/hnum/7813003

[Dave2002]

Just wondering - do kindle (e-book) purchases count towards your £20.00 free shipping? I currently have nearly £18.00 of items in my trolley and have my eye on a kindle book to take me over the precipice. But as they download stragiht to your device, I'm wondering if they're eligible?

I think almost certainly not, as I have now bought more than £20 worth of kindle purchases as Daily Deals. When I try to order anything less than £20 I still get the message that I need to top the order up to get the free delivery.

I do sometimes get notifications of other free offers - such as downloads - but I can't usually figure out how to do that, so ignore most of them.

[Dave2002]

Now listening to the Milestones of a Legend - Annie Fischer box - Bartók 3rd piano concerto. I've got way to go before fully evaluating this set, but I feel the recordings are OK - considering. Not up to the latest standards, but bearable and the performances do have something to say, so at around £1 per CD reasonable value.

I found this article about AF from the Spectator - https://www.spectator.co.uk/2014/08/...-realise-this/ She lived to be 80 - despite cigarettes!

[Conchis]

Now listening to the Milestones of a Legend - Annie Fischer box - Bartók 3rd piano concerto. I've got way to go before fully evaluating this set, but I feel the recordings are OK - considering. Not up to the latest standards, but bearable and the performances do have something to say, so at around £1 per CD reasonable value.

I found this article about AF from the Spectator - https://www.spectator.co.uk/2014/08/...-realise-this/ She lived to be 80 - despite cigarettes!

I purchased this set earlier in the year. No complaints about the sound, certainly none about the performances.

Yes - 'Ashtray Annie' was her nomenclature but I'm sure she wasn't the only chain-smoking pianist.

[cloughie]

Just ordered this,anyone familiar with the set ?

https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0000713CT?psc=1

Arrived on Friday - now listened to 16 to 19. Quite serviceable but do not displace any of my favourites at the top of the pile.

[Pianorak]

Quite serviceable . . .

Quite serviceable for what? I have never heard a harsher or more unsympathetic pianism. How did Kurt Masur get mixed up in this?

[mathias broucek]

Quite serviceable for what? I have never heard a harsher or more unsympathetic pianism. How did Kurt Masur get mixed up in this?

Party orders?

[Stanfordian]

Quite serviceable for what? I have never heard a harsher or more unsympathetic pianism. How did Kurt Masur get mixed up in this?

The controlling authorities in the DDR found Kurt Masur politically acceptable for several conducting posts in East Germany. Masur is mentioned because of his fine work, including the set of Mozart piano concertos, with the Dresdner Philharmonie an orchestra frequently overshadowed by the Sächsische Staatskapelle Dresden. In the said set of Mozart concertos, soloist Annerose Schmidt is a pianist I have never encountered before.

[Pianorak]

Ah yes, the much non-lamented late GDR. How could I forget?

[Conchis]

Party orders?

'Party orders' explained the presence of Theo Adam as Sachs in the 1970 Karajan Meistersinger.

[teamsaint]

Ah yes, the much non-lamented late GDR. How could I forget?

Ostalgie is doing very nicely.

[Dave2002]

Quite serviceable for what? I have never heard a harsher or more unsympathetic pianism. How did Kurt Masur get mixed up in this?

I did buy the set in the end, but I've only listened to one so far. I didn't think the performance I heard was that bad.

[cloughie]

Quite serviceable for what? I have never heard a harsher or more unsympathetic pianism. How did Kurt Masur get mixed up in this?

Perhaps I was being too polite - in truth they were not my best purchase - I don't think Masur does much Mozart - probably even less after this experience!

[EdgeleyRob]

Quite serviceable for what? I have never heard a harsher or more unsympathetic pianism. How did Kurt Masur get mixed up in this?

Blimey !
I've listened a couple of these cds and didn't think they were too bad.
Sure,they won't be displacing any favourites of mine but harsh and unsympathetic seems,well,harsh to me.

[Stanfordian]

Blimey !
I've listened a couple of these cds and didn't think they were too bad.
Sure,they won't be displacing any favourites of mine but harsh and unsympathetic seems,well,harsh to me.

Hiya EdgeleyRob ,

You know I have several sets of the complete Mozart piano concertos and have never been entirely satisfied with any of them. I think the ongoing set by Mitsuko Uchida and the Cleveland Orchestra is promising to be the finest so far. I also rather admire the Barenboim set as soloist with the Berliner Philharmoniker. I am quite tempted to give that set by Annerose Schmidt and the Dresdener Philharmonie at try.

During my recent Dresden trips I have been trying to learn something about life in the DDR. Unlike the big cities Berlin and Munich many people of my own age in Dresden don't speak English as it was forbidden to be taught in East German schools during that era. Of course it is different now especially in the cities as all young people seem to want to speak English.