The Most Expensive Recording in your Collection

Started by springrite, June 08, 2007, 06:35:47 PM

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springrite

I bought most of my CDs from BRO and online, and paid retail or under retail, $1.99 to $14.99, with only a couple of CDs at about $20. But I know many people would pay over retail for hard to get recordings. One of my friend lost a CD he had of Bloet's Liszt Transcendental Etudes and paid Ensayo $45 for a new copy. He also paid an online retailer $80 for an out of print CD that I forgot the title of.

For those of your hardcore collectors, what is the most expensive recording you have? How much did you pay for it, and why?

Gurn Blanston

Single disk?  $50 for the Savall "Eroica".

Box?  $150 for the 19 disk "Mozart Complete Symphonies" / Hogwood.

Alright, I'm not proud of it, but I did it, so there you go.  :-[

The fact is, HIP recordings are usually OOP in a heartbeat, and the only way to get them is from people who screw... uhhh, cater to collectors.  Unless you have made some very good friends over the years... :)

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not edward

I don't think I've ever paid over market price for a disc. I just stalk ebay and amazon marketplaces till a good price appears.
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Bogey

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Gurn Blanston

Quote from: Bogey on June 08, 2007, 06:54:40 PM
Probably this:


$115 on Ebay.

Geez, Bill! That's pretty well up there. And it isn't even Mozart!! :o

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PerfectWagnerite

Quote from: Gurn Blanston on June 08, 2007, 06:41:37 PM
Single disk?  $50 for the Savall "Eroica".


Holy Schniky ! I paid $6 for mine (it was new but was in a secondhand store) and I thought I overpaid !

Gurn Blanston

Quote from: PerfectWagnerite on June 08, 2007, 07:02:56 PM
Holy Schniky ! I paid $6 for mine (it was new but was in a secondhand store) and I thought I overpaid !

Yeah, I was late to the game there. That's what I meant about disks like that going OOP quickly. When I finally decided to shop for it (after recs from half a dozen people), I found 2 copies on Amazon and none elsewhere. A used one for $35 and a new one for $50. What the hell, if you're going to pay $35, you might as well pay $50... ::)

(I'd a given you $12 for yours, and paid postage, as I understand you don't like it. :)  )

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PerfectWagnerite

Quote from: Gurn Blanston on June 08, 2007, 07:08:01 PM

(I'd a given you $12 for yours, and paid postage, as I understand you don't like it. :)  )

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Well, I don't like it now. I may like it later ;)
There are some recordings that I used to not like and sold, and then later wanted to kick myself (like Stokowski's Scheherazade with the LSO).

beclemund

Gardiner's Bach Cantatas are the only ones I can think of that come with a slightly premium price... but then, they're usually double disc sets, so still around $15 per CD.... I almost paid $30 for Sinopoli's Bruckner 5th about a year ago, but the Amazon marketplace seller couldn't find the copy he was selling. I bought it a few weeks ago for around $10 from another Amazon reseller.
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Heather Harrison

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The most expensive recording in my collection isn't even classical.  Original LPs of pop/rock-type music from the 1950's and 1960's often go for a small fortune.  My most expensive is an LP entitled "The Sound of Kathy Young".  She was known for the hit "A Thousand Stars".  Many years ago, when I got it, the going rate was about $300.  I haven't checked to see what the current value is.  Back then, the only way to get recordings like this was to buy the original LP.  Nowadays, there might be a CD available, but I haven't looked.  The LP is in near-mint condition, and I have copied it onto CD.  The sound is as good as can be expected from a 1950's recording on a minor record label.



My most expensive classical recording is the LP pictured here.  If I remember correctly, it was about $90.  This was the recording that got me interested in classical music, and it got destroyed when I was a child (children are very destructive).  I was overjoyed when I found this copy.



Heather

MishaK

I've never paid more than regular retail price for anything. Speaking of expensive CDs.... I have been looking for a CD version of Barenboim's first CSO Bruckner cycle on DG, which I love, to reduce wear on my LPs. But this is plain insane.

Daverz

I'm a real cheapskate.  I don't think I've ever spent, pre tax and shipping, over $18 for a single CD.  Actually, I'm having trouble thinking of something I've payed over $16 for, as you can usually get even the most expensive labels for under that if you shop around on the web or wait for a sale.  I suppose I've passed up many things that I really wanted, yet I still have many thousands of wonderful CDs to listen to.

I've actually spent more on an Lp.  On impulse, I paid $20 at Amoeba for a new Parlophone of the Beatles Revolver because it was the one Beatles Lp I was missing.  But it doesn't sound very good  >:( (it's one of those Direct Metal Mastered Lps).

Another question is: how much have you spent on reissues of a single recording.  I really resist replacing things this way unless the differences are reported to be dramatic.


Daverz

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Quote from: Heather Harrison on June 08, 2007, 08:15:47 PM


I've seen it go for $125 143.75.  I'm sure it would fetch even higher prices if Leibowitz were better known.  I wish Sony/BMG would issue it on CD, but that seems really doubtful when they keep reissuing the Reiner year after year.

Steve

As far as single disks go, I rarely find myself paying more than $18

As for boxed sets, I've spent nearly $100 for the Barshai Shostakovich Symphony Cycle as well as the Beethoven's Piano Sonatas (Goode)


orbital

Quote from: O Mensch on June 08, 2007, 08:30:30 PM
I've never paid more than regular retail price for anything

Me neither.

I think the highest valued CD I have is that Robert Smith - Alkan Piano Works on EMI which sells for around $80 at amazon marketplace. I probably bought that for $8-9 maximum.

Bogey

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Quote from: Gurn Blanston on June 08, 2007, 06:58:11 PM
Geez, Bill! That's pretty well up there. And it isn't even Mozart!! :o

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Of course I did not pay that much for it...I think it was 15-20 out of FSM magazine. :)  Still sealed...never gotten around to listening to it.
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Que

I recently paid € 27 for an OOP Mozart/ L'archibudelli recording.... ::)
(Gurn knows which.  8))

I've been very lucky otherwise.

Q

FideLeo

Quote from: Que on June 08, 2007, 10:37:01 PM
I recently paid € 27 for an OOP Mozart/ L'archibudelli recording.... ::)
(Gurn knows which.  8))

The Quintets K. 593 & 614? ;)
For that I would gladly pay  € 27 or more as well.  ;D
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rubio

Quote from: George on June 08, 2007, 07:53:30 PM
$51 for this:





Was it worth the price? I have ordered the Vista Vera vol. 4, 8 and 9 recently.
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