Past Purchases (CLOSED)

[Gabriel]

François Devienne (1759-1803): Three quartets for bassoon and string trio, op. 73 (Walker/Pritchard/Yarbrough/Wilson).

Václav Pichl (1741-1805): Six string trios, op. 7 (Ensemble Agora).

[Lilas Pastia]

Single disc. I'll look for the Wagner.

Edit: Ordered it.

Sarge

Milos is right, you NEED that Prelude and Liebestod. It has never sounded so pornophonic. What does it come with, Sarge?

[Henk]

[rubio]

This beauty arrived.

[Papy Oli]

[SonicMan46]

Well, last few days I've been perusing the Sept-Oct issue of the American Record Guide and except for the Harry suggestion below, all were well recommended; ordered from MDT - the 3-CD set of the Prokofiev Sonatas was a particularly good deal! 

Fesca, Friedrich - Flute Quartets w/ Linos Ensemble

Foote, Arthur - Orchestral Works w/ Schwarz & Seattle Symphony

Franck, Eduard - Piano Trios w/ Edinger et al on Audite

Martinu, Bohuslav - Cello Concertos w/ Wallfisch et al on Chandos - Harry recommendation!

Prokofiev, Sergei - Piano Sonatas et al w/ Anne-Marie McDermott on Bridge - 3CDs




   

[haydnguy]

Well, last few days I've been perusing the Sept-Oct issue of the American Record Guide and except for the Harry suggestion below, all were well recommended; ordered from MDT - the 3-CD set of the Prokofiev Sonatas was a particularly good deal! 

Fesca, Friedrich - Flute Quartets w/ Linos Ensemble

Foote, Arthur - Orchestral Works w/ Schwarz & Seattle Symphony

Franck, Eduard - Piano Trios w/ Edinger et al on Audite

Martinu, Bohuslav - Cello Concertos w/ Wallfisch et al on Chandos - Harry recommendation!

Prokofiev, Sergei - Piano Sonatas et al w/ Anne-Marie McDermott on Bridge - 3CDs

I've been eying that Prokofiev. Thanks for the recommendation on it.

[Harry]

This quality issue is self recommending, nichtwahr?

[Harry]

It has a good price....

[Harry]

And this one, also a bargain.

[Harry]

And these long awaited discs from CPO

[The new erato]

And these long awaited discs from CPO

At last Weinberg vol 3.

What's that 111 set from DG?

[Harry]

At last Weinberg vol 3.

What's that 111 set from DG?

The most famous recordings from DGG

[Sergeant Rock]

Milos is right, you NEED that Prelude and Liebestod. It has never sounded so pornophonic.

I'm getting horny already  

What does it come with, Sarge?

Overtures to Rienzi, Meistersinger and Holländer. I also ordered Païta's other Wagner CD, excerpts from Götterdämmerung. That arrived today:



I should have ordered the Tristan from this source too--I'd have it today--but I found it a little cheaper elsewhere.

Sarge

[DavidW]

It has a good price....

Where did you find Koopman's Bach cantatas set at a good price?  The individual volumes in the US are $50 each!   I decided to be content with Leusink, who actually did a great job with the cantatas imo.

But anyway I really wanted Koopman, for just nailing every element but they seemed to go oop with no economical box set-- AND YOU'VE FOUND IT MAN! AWESOME!

[Antoine Marchand]

It has a good price....

EUR 399,99 on JPC? Well, it's cheaper than the original set, but...

[DavidW]

EUR 399,99 on JPC? Well, it's cheaper than the original set, but...

Well that's an average of $8.55 USD per cd.  That's a good price I think.

[Antoine Marchand]

Well that's an average of $8.55 USD per cd.  That's a good price I think.

Probably a good price, but not a bargain, as it's usually with this kind of big box sets.

The original set ("original" just in part) costs EU 699,99 on JPC.

I am condemned because I have 13 of those volumes.

[DavidW]

Probably a good price, but not a bargain, as it's usually with this kind of big box sets.

The original set ("original" just in part) costs EU 699,99 on JPC.

I am condemned because I have 13 of those volumes.

Yeah Leusink is the only super bargain set at less than $1 per cd, just based on price it crushes the competition.  They probably outsold all other cantata sets at least by a factor of 10.  But I would call that super bargain.

I think that anything less than $10 is bargain priced, $10-14 is mid-priced and $14-17 is full priced, more than $17 is highway robbery!   Many of the cantata sets weigh in at the highway robbery scale, or just barely full priced.

We just got so used to finding super bargains that we changed our perception of what a bargain is.  Naxos is a bargain label, but now we consider it to be mid-priced just because it just doesn't match the super-bargain pricing of Brilliant Classics for example.  I remember how awesome Naxos seemed because they were like half price of all the major labels.  Boy that was the day, but now we're really getting good deals, it's even better than before.

[Antoine Marchand]

I agree, David.

But there is another super bargain: the Leonhardt/Harnoncourt set (only the sacred cantatas). It costs $209.09 on Cd Universe:

http://www.cduniverse.com/productinfo.asp?pid=7580388&style=classical