Classical music bargains

[mikeweil]

Baroque Opera, 39 CD set on Harmonia Mundi, available for preorder.

http://harmoniamundiuk.wordpress.com/tag/baroque/

Now that one looks tempting - lots of important works in reference recordings:

Monteverdi: L'incoronazione di Poppea (Rene Jacobs / 1989)

Cavalli: La Calisto (Rene Jacobs / 1994)

A. Scarlatti: Griselda (Rene Jacos / 2003)

Lully: Atys (William Christie / 1986)

Charpentier: Medee (William Christie / 1984);Le Malade imaginaire (William Christie / 1990)

Campra: Idomenee (William Christie / 1991)

Rameau: Les Indes Galantes (William Christie / 1991)

Blow: Venus and Adonis (Rene Jacobs / 1998)

Händel: Rinaldo (Rene Jacobs / 2002);Flavio (Rene Jacobs / 1989)

Keiser: Croesus (Rene Jacobs / 1999)

Telemann: Orpheus (Rene Jacobs / 1996)

Graun: Cleopatra e Cesare (Rene Jacobs / 1995)

Ouvertüren für die Hamburger Oper - Schürmann: Suite "Ludovicus Pius";Erlebach: Ouvertüre Nr. 4;Keiser: Le Ridicule Prince Jodelet;Händel: Almira-Tanzsuite;Schieferdecker: Concerts Musicaux (Concert Nr. 1) ((Rene Jacobs / 2004)

DVD Monteverdi: L'Orfeo (Rene Jacobs)

2DVD Händel: Giulio Cesare (Rene Jacobs)

Jennifer Larmore, Iris Vermillion, Andreas Scholl, Lynn Dawson, Dominique Visse, Axel Köhler, Maria Christina Kiehr, Maria Bayo, Marcello Lippi, Graham Pushee, Dominique Visse, Simon Keenlyside, Dorothea Röschmann, Bernarda Fink, Lawrence Zazzo, Derek Lee Ragin, Sandrine Piau, Vivica Genaux, Miah Persson, Inga Kalna, Dominique Visse, James Rutherford, Markus Schäfer, Roman Trekel, Werner Güra, Ruth Ziesak, RIAS Kammerchor, Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin, Les Arts Florissants, Concerto Vocale, Ensemble 415, Concerto Köln, Rene Jacobs, William Christie

p.s. just pre-ordered a copy - I have only five of these and want most of the others ....

[Д.Д.]

Yeah, I also placed a pre-order through amazon.co.uk, they have a good price: http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B00DHCJLWG/ref=oh_details_o00_s00_i02?ie=UTF8&psc=1

Edited August 10, 2013 by Д.Д.

[mikeweil]

The one opera I want the most is Alessandro Scarlatti's Griselda - used copies go for more than the price of that box!

[king ubu]

Thanks, David - did the same yesterday! Seems it will just slip through customs/tax-mongers ... but I'll keep an eye on amazon.it and amazon.fr, just in case. (Both don't seem to list the set yet, at least not under the same link/number.)

[Д.Д.]

Courtesy of Le bons plans classique - complete Schubert sonatas played on period instruments by Paul Badura-Skoda (9 CDs) for €19, worldwide shipping included:

http://www.outhere-music.com/en/albums/the-complete-piano-sonatas-played-on-period-instruments-a-364

[mikeweil]

Thanks, I ordered a copy, as I had only four of the original CDs.

Badura-Skoda is technically not always the most precise, but he has a genuine Viennese feeling when playing these sonatas, and a great collection of original pianos at his disposal.

Edited August 15, 2013 by mikeweil

[king ubu]

I got the set from amazon (only slightly more expensive shortly after it (re-) appeared, but haven't come around listening to any of it yet ... it has a minimal booklet, but there's a PDF you can get from the label's website that has huge booklet including a long text by Badura-Skoda with notes on each sonata (over 200 pages, but it's in four languages, en/fr/ge/it).

[mikeweil]

Thanks for the hint with the booklet, just downloaded.

[king ubu]

amazon.it has the Vivarte box for 50€ currently

http://www.amazon.it/Vivarte-Collection-Various-Artists/dp/B00AOTZ156/

Haven't played more than a third to half of it, but I jumped for it when it was in a similar price range and haven't regretted doing so!

[king ubu]

Three more "cubes" coming up - only amazon.co.uk has a price tag so far (102£). Didn't have a closer look, but I don't think I'm game here ...

Das alte Werk

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Erato

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Teldec

Edited August 18, 2013 by king ubu

[David Ayers]

I have never bought even one of this style of 'here: buy the lot' boxes. That's not only because my priority is to support current activity by buying new and recent releases by artists I care about and see in concert. I can't imagine myself 'in' on these sets because I generally have the 6 or 10 titles I would most like to hear, and the rest I have passed on for years so can't feel in a hurry to hear them now. Plus the repertoire selections are unhelpful - I want excerpts from Barenboim's Tristan or two of Harnoncourt's Beethoven cycle why? There are or maybe good reasons for wanting Harnoncourt, Barenboim, Christie, Vengerov, or perhaps lesser-known things like the very good Andrew Davis recordings of English music for Teldec, but most people who want those things (me) will have hoovered them up already. That leaves a lot of no-doubt worthy odds and ends. Good value for bargain hunters but who has the time? Better to buy six or ten things that you know you want than a pot-luck box which you will probably never get through (oh good, some random Richter Bach cantatas). That's what spotify is for. Compare and contrast the FMP box - now that is how to celebrate a label...

So i'm with you Flurin and thanks for posting the contents.

[Bigshot]

Get em down in the neighborhood of a buck and change per disk, and I'm game for a pig in a poke.

[king ubu]

Having now checked the contents a bit closer (those listings come from amazon btw), I don't think I want any of these. The Teldec looks interesting, the Erato would be if it hadn't so many partial things in it (but then I often do have the entire thing already). I guess I have about 5-10 discs of each of these and they really don't wet my appetite all that much..

[Д.Д.]

Hyperion is running a "please someone buy me..." sale on their unpopular items. Some good stuff there at low prices with shipping included.

http://www.hyperion-records.co.uk/o.asp?o=1016&vw=dc&lang=1

Edited August 19, 2013 by Д.Д.

[mikeweil]

Thanks for the Hyperion link, I bought the Scarlatti oratorio, which seems to be a very beautiful piece of music ....

[Д.Д.]

I see Hyperion already updated the sale list. Some interesting stuff there (Schulhoff, for example).

[king ubu]

Okay, I just jumped for it ... the Scarlatti, the Leclair, the Schulhoff, the Taneyev and the Walter/Goldmark.

[Д.Д.]

Teldec The Ligeti Project 5-CD set is back to €18 at amazon.de and amazon.es.

Also, amazon.de sells Henze Hybrid SACD of Symphony 8 on Capriccio label for less than €5: http://www.amazon.de/Sinfonie-8-Nachtst%C3%BCcke-Adagio-Barainsky/dp/B000W4E3QQ/ref=sr_1_3?s=music&ie=UTF8&qid=1377958866&sr=1-3

Looks like a couple of Capricio SACD are discounted at amazon.de:

Cocertos Francais: http://www.amazon.de/Concertos-Francais-Various/dp/B0009RRRJG/ref=sr_1_1?s=music&ie=UTF8&qid=1377959096&sr=1-1&keywords=capriccio+naxos+sacd

Max Reger: http://www.amazon.de/B%C3%B6cklin-Suite-Mozart-Variations-Weigle/dp/B000S6ENEK/ref=sr_1_5?s=music&ie=UTF8&qid=1377959133&sr=1-5&keywords=capriccio+naxos+sacd

French string quartets: http://www.amazon.de/Streichquartette-Chanson-perp%C3%A9tuelle-Petersen-Quartett/dp/B0000DGDL6/ref=sr_1_7?s=music&ie=UTF8&qid=1377959168&sr=1-7&keywords=capriccio+naxos+sacd

[Д.Д.]

Leipzig Bach 10-CD set for €8 at amazon.de: http://www.amazon.de/Edition-Bach-Leipzig-Various/dp/B000F4LDOS/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1378120356&sr=8-1&keywords=bach+leipzig+delta

These are mid-80s recordings by East German musicians.

[king ubu]

Baroque Opera, 39 CD set on Harmonia Mundi, available for preorder.

http://harmoniamundiuk.wordpress.com/tag/baroque/

Got mine today - looks nice, though the booklets don't seem to be that much of a deal (tracklists + synopsis of the respective works - for the librettos, there's a CD-rom with PDFs included)

This will take years to digest, but then it's the kind of investment that I consider for lifetime.

Btw, it's only out via UK so far it seems, and compared to pre-order prices I've seen, that's still the very best offer there (amazon.co.uk that is).

[king ubu]

some upcoming stuff:

ICONs (now w/Warner logo):

http://www.amazon.de/Icon-Witold-Malcuzynski-Ltd-Edition-Witold/dp/B00DKAH79O/

http://www.amazon.de/Icon-Paavo-Berglund/dp/B00DKAH74Y/

http://www.amazon.de/Icon-Wolfgang-Sawallisch/dp/B00DKAH7E4/

http://www.amazon.de/Icon-Yehudi-Menuhin-Early-Years/dp/B00DKAH6YA/

Sony/RCA:

http://www.amazon.de/George-Szell-conducts-Symphonies-Overtures/dp/B00EC0VVRA/

http://www.amazon.de/Yefim-Bronfman-Prokofiev-Concertos-Sonatas/dp/B00EC0VWUG/

http://www.amazon.de/Leonard-Slatkin-conducts-Elgar/dp/B00EC0VWQK/

http://www.amazon.de/Eugene-Ormandy-conducts-Tchaikovsky/dp/B00EC0VVZ2/

http://www.amazon.de/The-British-Music-Collection-Various/dp/B00EC0VX3W/

http://www.amazon.de/The-Aaron-Copland-Coll-Orchestral/dp/B00EC0VWYW/

http://www.amazon.de/Complete-Works-Op-1-Op-31-Pierre-Boulez/dp/B00EC0VW3S/

http://www.amazon.de/Arthur-Rubinstein-Plays-Great-Concertos/dp/B00EC0VWEM/

http://www.amazon.de/Glenn-Gould-Plays-Bach-Vol/dp/B00EC0VWAG/

Decca:

http://www.amazon.de/Meisterwerke-Dutoit/dp/B00DD0AFFY/

http://www.amazon.de/Klaviersonaten-Impromptus-Ingrid-Haebler/dp/B00DG86BBU/

http://www.amazon.de/Geistliche-Weltliche-Musik-Mccreesh/dp/B00E59ZRS2/

without having had a closer look, not too much of interest to me, I think - and it sure feels like the final curtain call is coming soon ...

(replace the ".de" with ".com", ".fr" etc. in the URL - sorry, but I just pulled together the links on german amazon)

[Д.Д.]

Well, with EMI Classics and Virgin Classics absorbed into Warner, we will probably see another waive of cheap box sets of old stuff.

[J.A.W.]

Well, with EMI Classics and Virgin Classics absorbed into Warner, we will probably see another waive of cheap box sets of old stuff.

A wave? More like a deluge...

The first cheap series has already been released by Warner, including Bernard Haitink's EMI cycle of Vaughan Williams symphonies with the London Philharmonic Orchestra.

[edited to correct an error: the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra was not involved in that cycle]

Edited September 5, 2013 by J.A.W.

[Д.Д.]

Hey, I might actually go for VW / Haiting / LPO.

[king ubu]

Well, the real deluge seems to be the one from Sony ...

But what about Warner/Universal? Thought I got a mail from EMI telling me they'll hand over my data to Universal now ... so it's not SonyTimeWarner but EMIWarnerUniversal? Or do they maintain some kind of separation (still doing seperate Decca boxes at least at this time)?