Bargains

[gurnemanz]

Conlon's superb EMI Triple of Zemlinsky for £4.99! Another no brainer, I think:

http://www.sainsburysentertainment.c..._source=google

(Sainsbury's seem to be doing all the EMI Triples for £4.99)

Annoyingly, I got the double fforte edition a few years ago, so a purchase would involve two thirds duplication. It also probably cost more than the triple. C'est la vie.
By the way, also well worth getting is the Brilliant Classsics Lieder twofer. Cheapest here, I think:

http://www.play.com/Music/CD/4-/9663464/Zemlinsky-Lieder/Product.html

[Dave2002]

A few more from Snaisburgs - I've omitted some of the Beethoven, Mozart, Chopin, Bach ....

http://www.sainsburysentertainment.c...duct=E10146009 Tchaikovsky concertos/Donohoe, Kennedy etc.

http://www.sainsburysentertainment.c...duct=E10185786 Dvorak Symphonies/Jansons

http://www.sainsburysentertainment.c...duct=E10074077 Mendelssohn Quartets/played by the Cherubini Quartet

http://www.sainsburysentertainment.c...duct=E10171365 Don Giovanni/Muti

http://www.sainsburysentertainment.c...duct=E10136886 Nielsen/Blomstedt

http://www.sainsburysentertainment.c...duct=E10221646 Rachmaninov Symphonies/Jansons

http://www.sainsburysentertainment.c...duct=E10207602 Villa Lobos Bachianas Brasileiras/Batiz-RPO

http://www.sainsburysentertainment.c...duct=E10299394 Bartok concertos/Donohoe, Rattle et al (£5.99)

[Pianorak]

Stop it, Dave!
I wonder if there's a way FF could bar me from accessing the Bargain thread.

[Parry1912]

A few more from Snaisburgs - I've omitted some of the Beethoven, Mozart, Chopin, Bach ....

http://www.sainsburysentertainment.c...duct=E10185786 Dvorak Symphonies/Jansons

This a terrific set. The 5th, 7th and 8th are outstanding.

[EdgeleyRob]

Sadly I can relate to that emotion all too well. These days I've come to accept that the buying and collecting is as much of the fun as the listening....

At this rate my unopened cds will outnumber the rest.

[Dave2002]

Stop it, Dave!
I wonder if there's a way FF could bar me from accessing the Bargain thread.

Would you really like that? Perhaps we should all join CDs Anonymous. We could start a CDs Anonymous thread ....

I'm still holding off buying the Mercury box set, but I'm weakening. Plus a few others ...

[Pianorak]

Would you really like that? . . .

Not really. Once the bailiffs call the problem will solve itself.

[Dave2002]

Not really. Once the bailiffs call the problem will solve itself.

Now I've gone and found some Karajan sets (don't look at the Karajanophobia thread!), so now wondering whether to "invest" there as well. I'm not sure that I even liked much of K's work anyway, though some is undoubtedly superb, but there could be interesting things there.

I don't think we're going to have County Court judgements against us just yet, though, nor do I need to go down to Sainsburys for a cardboard box.

[Dave2002]

Re msg 1166, I didn't even know Massenet had also done Cinderella until I spotted this http://www.opera-lille.fr/fr/saison-...297_cendrillon. Is there a recording? Doesn't seem to be in the Decca (complete) set, or did I miss it?

if I had time I'd be tempted to take the Eurostar over to Lille for the last weekend this month.

[Il Grande Inquisitor]

Re msg 1166, I didn't even know Massenet had also done Cinderella until I spotted this http://www.opera-lille.fr/fr/saison-...297_cendrillon. Is there a recording? Doesn't seem to be in the Decca (complete) set, or did I miss it?

if I had time I'd be tempted to take the Eurostar over to Lille for the last weekend this month.

There's a complete audio recording on Sony with Frederica von Stade, but I'd wait for the new DVD - of the same Laurent Pelly production in Lille - from Covent Garden last summer. It was superb: http://www.opera-britannia.com/index...iews&Itemid=16

[Pianorak]

. . . so now wondering whether to "invest" there as well. . .

No longer sure the "invest" needs quotation marks. If Amazon is anything to go by some of my CDs appear to have gone up in value rather than down. However, knowing my luck, should I decide to sell up there'll be the inevitable reposte: Sorry, Sir, there's really no demand for that.

[Bryn]

This box is due to be released next week. It is £18.99 at AmazonUk but $7.99 at Amazon.com. Just ordered and, with delivery charge, it came to £9.38 (I went for the cheapest/slowest option as in no hurry).

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00...ls_o00_s00_i00

My set arrived today. The recordings date from between 1968 and 1980 and at all "AAD" transfers. I have not yet listened to any, but might try spinning the wheel later.

[cloughie]

My set arrived today. The recordings date from between 1968 and 1980 and at all "AAD" transfers. I have not yet listened to any, but might try spinning the wheel later.

I'll be seriously interested in your views on the set - for no rational reason I have a sales resistence to Neumann!

[teamsaint]

popped into FOPP in Bristol today..they had loads of Naxos "American Classics" for £3 each, if anyone is interested in that kind of thing.

[Beef Oven]

popped into FOPP in Bristol today..they had loads of Naxos "American Classics" for £3 each, if anyone is interested in that kind of thing.

I have quite a few in that series, mainly from the first 50 releases. Great stuff. For non-europeans, they actually wrote some nice music.