MomsMobley Posted September 9, 2011 Report Share Posted September 9, 2011 The Nat set is great-- likewise the Cziffra (if you like Liszt), Marcelle Meyer and Samson Francois. There are jewels in the Aldo Ciccolini but whether anyone needs THREE Satie cycles by the same pianist... ALSO-- just got shipping notice on the Bernstein Symphony Edition, which I'd held off on last year and then it was gone. At current exchange rate it comes to $101 or so shipped to the farm-- https://www.amazon.de/Bernstein-Symphony-Leonard/dp/B003Z9Q4WG Oddly, on Amazon.com, there's now a third party seller w/ Amazon fulfillment hustling these for $187... where they came from I dunno. Also, typically, there's no goddamn indication this will come out again in the U.S. SIDENOTE: greatest Puccini opera many have never heard = LA RONDINE Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Van Basten II Posted September 10, 2011 Report Share Posted September 10, 2011 The Nat set is great-- likewise the Cziffra (if you like Liszt), Marcelle Meyer and Samson Francois. There are jewels in the Aldo Ciccolini but whether anyone needs THREE Satie cycles by the same pianist... That may be the problem with those mega sets, do you really need all those cds instead of buying and appreciating music, you feel more like shopping in a Costco center . Let's see I'll take 2 boxes of 40 cds of Bach a 15 cd pack of Bernstein and hey are the Goulds in special I'm running low for the weekend . Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
greggery peccary Posted September 11, 2011 Report Share Posted September 11, 2011 I haven't seen this one listed yet.... A Secret Labyrinth: A Celebration of Music From the Middle Ages to the Renaissance Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Leeway Posted September 11, 2011 Report Share Posted September 11, 2011 I haven't seen this one listed yet.... A Secret Labyrinth: A Celebration of Music From the Middle Ages to the Renaissance That does look like a nice deal. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Д.Д. Posted September 12, 2011 Author Report Share Posted September 12, 2011 Early Music 10CD compilation on Harmonia Mundi - €30 at amazon.it I have a couple of individual CDs (now OOP) from this collection - great stuff. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
crisp Posted September 12, 2011 Report Share Posted September 12, 2011 Haydn: Complete String Quartets by the Aeolian Quartet (Decca), £34.73 for 22 discs at Amazon UK. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Д.Д. Posted September 12, 2011 Author Report Share Posted September 12, 2011 I haven't seen this one listed yet.... A Secret Labyrinth: A Celebration of Music From the Middle Ages to the Renaissance I have one CD from this set - Utopia Triumphans - and I found it nearly unlistenable due to muddy recording quality (recorded in a church in a very "distant" manner - and these are large choirs), with hissing sounds that vocalists make when they hit the consonants overpowering the music (but this is a common problem I have with early choral music, in live settings in particular - I would rather have them singing in vowels only ). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Д.Д. Posted September 16, 2011 Author Report Share Posted September 16, 2011 Zig Zag label 5CD set (Mozart, Bononcini, Rebel, Monteverdi, Rameau) for £10 at amazon.co.uk Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ejp626 Posted September 21, 2011 Report Share Posted September 21, 2011 (edited) Just ran across these (might have overlooked them upthread) and they are awfully tempting. Giulini in Chicago (EMI) Giulini in America-Chicago (DG) Giulini in America - LA (DG) The first one is cheapest on Amazon.com The second two Amazon.co.uk seems cheaper than Amazon.com or Blowitoutahere, even with shipping. I imagine I'll be scarfing these up soon. Edited September 21, 2011 by ejp626 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ejp626 Posted September 21, 2011 Report Share Posted September 21, 2011 Not sure when this came out, but it looks like another winner, with an interesting mix of warhorses (Mozart, Beethoven, Shubert's Trout), slightly less frequently heard pieces, particularly various Octets, and mid-Twentieth C. chamber music. Again, almost certainly will pick this up. (At the moment, Amazon.co.uk may be the cheapest.) Melos Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
B. Goren. Posted September 21, 2011 Report Share Posted September 21, 2011 The Melos Ensemble box set will be also my next order. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Д.Д. Posted September 21, 2011 Author Report Share Posted September 21, 2011 (edited) Not a super-mega bargain, but a good deal nonetheless as long as you like the late Renaissance vocal music: Tomas Luis de Victoria - Sacred Works (10CDs) (Archiv) - £31 at amazon.co.uk Edited September 21, 2011 by Д.Д. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Van Basten II Posted September 21, 2011 Report Share Posted September 21, 2011 The 100 cd set Russian pianist set is back at 60 Euros at Amazon France. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Д.Д. Posted September 22, 2011 Author Report Share Posted September 22, 2011 The 100 cd set Russian pianist set is back at 60 Euros at Amazon France. You mean Russian Legends: Legendary Russian Soloists, I guess: http://www.amazon.fr/L%C3%A9gendaires-Solistes-Russes-Si%C3%A8cle-Coffret/dp/B000T2ONOI/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1316676204&sr=8-1 It's a good box. I mean, I didn't care for 1/3 of what I heard in it (Shafran, Rostropovich, big part of Kremer), but other stuff is fantastic (Tretiakov, Gilels, Richter) so I found it still a good value. And I am only 1/2 through. What is worht mentionning is htat the sound quality is surprisingly good, although no-noised perhaps. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mandrill Posted September 23, 2011 Report Share Posted September 23, 2011 Zig Zag label 5CD set (Mozart, Bononcini, Rebel, Monteverdi, Rameau) for £10 at amazon.co.uk Thank you, Д.Д. Just ordered. This is a fantastic set at fantastic value. Any one of these disks if purchased separately would normally cost you more. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
T.D. Posted September 24, 2011 Report Share Posted September 24, 2011 (edited) On the subject of Monteverdi, I've seen a 9-CD box set of the complete operas on Brilliant Classics. Looks interesting, but I don't yet know enough about the recordings to put it on any wish lists. I've seen two of the three operas live and really dig them. [Added] 4-CD Vespers set less than USD 10 used. Any other Monteverdi suggestions welcome... Edited September 24, 2011 by T.D. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Д.Д. Posted September 26, 2011 Author Report Share Posted September 26, 2011 Zig Zag label 5CD set (Mozart, Bononcini, Rebel, Monteverdi, Rameau) for £10 at amazon.co.uk Thank you, Д.Д. Just ordered. This is a fantastic set at fantastic value. Any one of these disks if purchased separately would normally cost you more. Just got my copy, looking forward to listening to it. The packaging is minimal - just the track list. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Д.Д. Posted September 26, 2011 Author Report Share Posted September 26, 2011 On the subject of Monteverdi, I've seen a 9-CD box set of the complete operas on Brilliant Classics. Looks interesting, but I don't yet know enough about the recordings to put it on any wish lists. I've seen two of the three operas live and really dig them. [Added] 4-CD Vespers set less than USD 10 used. Any other Monteverdi suggestions welcome... I have L'Incoranzione di Poppea on Brilliant (it's 4-CDs). I liked it, but I have nothing to compare with. The recording quality is excellent, the instrumentalists I liked a lot (this is a small chamber group on period instruments), but some of the vocalists are merely mediocre. Please note that the whole thing is very very slow. My assumption is this is not the best performance out there. There is a budget 7-CD Monteverdi madrigals box just released on EMI (Consort of Musickle / Anthony Rooley, originallly on Virgin): http://www.amazon.de/Madrigali-Rooley/dp/B005AAVFH2/ref=sr_1_2?s=music&ie=UTF8&qid=1317029549&sr=1-2 Lorin Maazel - Great Recordings (30 CDs) - EMI - €50 at amazon.de Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Д.Д. Posted September 26, 2011 Author Report Share Posted September 26, 2011 Zig Zag label 5CD set (Mozart, Bononcini, Rebel, Monteverdi, Rameau) for £10 at amazon.co.uk Thank you, Д.Д. Just ordered. This is a fantastic set at fantastic value. Any one of these disks if purchased separately would normally cost you more. Just got my copy, looking forward to listening to it. The packaging is minimal - just the track list. Listened to the Rameu (solo harpsichord) CD - it's outstanding. The works are beautiful, and the performance is fantastic, and I think I never heard harpsichord sounding this good on record. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
David Ayers Posted September 26, 2011 Report Share Posted September 26, 2011 The Nat set is great-- likewise the Cziffra (if you like Liszt), Marcelle Meyer and Samson Francois. There are jewels in the Aldo Ciccolini but whether anyone needs THREE Satie cycles by the same pianist... That may be the problem with those mega sets, do you really need all those cds instead of buying and appreciating music, you feel more like shopping in a Costco center . Let's see I'll take 2 boxes of 40 cds of Bach a 15 cd pack of Bernstein and hey are the Goulds in special I'm running low for the weekend . Yes I never bought a mega-set. It's not only because I never have the time. Like you say it is something about appreciation. When box sets started getting cheaper it was wonderful, and it is great thing that the basic repertoire is available cheaply often in great editions. I tend to think that if I was actually going to work through the Bach Cantatas (say, and I am not) I wouldn't buy on price but on preference. If you are going to spend time with music do you really want it to be decided by the bulk-buy pricing? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mandrill Posted September 26, 2011 Report Share Posted September 26, 2011 Zig Zag label 5CD set (Mozart, Bononcini, Rebel, Monteverdi, Rameau) for £10 at amazon.co.uk Thank you, Д.Д. Just ordered. This is a fantastic set at fantastic value. Any one of these disks if purchased separately would normally cost you more. Just got my copy, looking forward to listening to it. The packaging is minimal - just the track list. So, there is no liner notes, etc.? That's rather sad. I thought they just repackaged 5 separate CDs in one box. But for that price i guess one can't complain. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
David Ayers Posted September 27, 2011 Report Share Posted September 27, 2011 (edited) Not a super-mega bargain, but a good deal nonetheless as long as you like the late Renaissance vocal music: Tomas Luis de Victoria - Sacred Works (10CDs) (Archiv) - £31 at amazon.co.uk In my basket - those were released in Spain only and I had been hoping for a box set, having heard Noone on Glossa. Meantime, now the Belohlavek tops the Martinu list, Brilliant fight back on amazon with a £5 bargain on their Jarvi Martinu symphonies set (from BIS). The Belohlavek is really good but these symphonies are not much to my taste, personally. Edited September 27, 2011 by David Ayers Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
David Ayers Posted September 29, 2011 Report Share Posted September 29, 2011 (edited) EMI Celibidache edition is back in, I think, four volumes, Bruckner I suppose being top of the list for those who like this sort of thing: http://www.amazon.co.uk/Celibadache-Bruckner/dp/B005HYNCTK/ref=pd_sim_m_h_3 Edited September 29, 2011 by David Ayers Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
crisp Posted September 30, 2011 Report Share Posted September 30, 2011 Jacqueline Du Pre: The Complete EMI Recordings (17 discs): £17.64 at Amazon UK. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Д.Д. Posted October 2, 2011 Author Report Share Posted October 2, 2011 More upcoming mammoth box sets: The Decca Sound (50 CDs): http://www.prestocla...r/Decca/4782826 The track list available at the Decca website: http://www.deccaclassics.com/cat/single?PRODUCT_NR=4782826 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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