The Most Expensive Recording in your Collection

[Bunny]

No, the one with Ein Musikalischer Spaß and the horn quintet, marches, etc. - which seems very hard to come by...

Q

I found that for $15.00 in a private sale.  I don't know what I would pay for the complete quintets, but I've only seen the cd with the 515 and 516.  I've never seen or heard of the L'Archibudelli recording of the k.593 and 614.

[knight66]

I am quite shocked at what some of you have been spending. I don't pay more than standard prices and I usually pay under unless I am being especially impatient. I have a set of Leontine Price arias on four CDs and noticed it at some stratospheric price on Amazon marketplace as it is NLA. Tempting!

Mike

[Bogey]

I paid about $90 on the Vegh LvB SQ's set, but that is 8 discs worth of top-shelf music IMO.

[Bunny]

I paid about $125 for the Rousset box set of the complete Couperin keyboard Works.  I think it's selling somewhere in the statosphere for around $900 for the set (12 cds) now, but at the time  I felt pretty reckless spending that amount of money.  Another box set I picked up around the same time was the complete Stravinsky conducts Stravinsky which had a similar number of cds but was less than half what I paid for the Couperin.  To even things out, I saw the Stravinsky later ended up at BRO for a bit less than I had paid.  Now it's been re-released in the Original Jackets series for a bit more than I paid.

[Que]

I paid about $125 for the Rousset box set of the complete Couperin keyboard Works.  I think it's selling somewhere in the statosphere for around $900 for the set (12 cds) now, but at the time  I felt pretty reckless spending that amount of money. 

I have a hunch that you haven't regretted it!

Good go on the L'Archibudelli/ Mozart btw.

Q

[Bunny]

I have a hunch that you haven't regretted it!

Good go on the L'Archibudelli/ Mozart btw.

Q

Yes, but I should have realized that Fl was playing around when he suggested the K. 593 and 614.  He does have a transverse sense of humor.

[George]

I paid about $90 on the Vegh LvB SQ's set, but that is 8 discs worth of top-shelf music IMO.

Yes, that one's worth $200 IMO. 

[PerfectWagnerite]

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.

Isn't it crazy? I mean do you HAVE to have that Bruckner Cycle. I have bits and pieces of it yes it is very good but come on ? Chances are a few years from now Universal will package it in a super budget set and you can get it for under $50. How stupid will you feel then if you had spent close to $300 for it.

[PerfectWagnerite]

I paid about $90 on the Vegh LvB SQ's set, but that is 8 discs worth of top-shelf music IMO.

When was that. They keep having that set on Amazon for around $40 a few months ago. Academy Records in NYC has the older release (stereo, not mono) for about $40 also.

[Bogey]

When was that. They keep having that set on Amazon for around $40 a few months ago. Academy Records in NYC has the older release (stereo, not mono) for about $40 also.

FWIW:

http://www.amazon.com/Ludwig-van-Beethoven-Complete-Quartets/dp/B000051ZPV/ref=pd_bbs_1/102-7134284-2880939?ie=UTF8&s=music&qid=1181420924&sr=8-1

[Gurn Blanston]

I found that for $15.00 in a private sale.  I don't what I would pay for the complete quintets, but I've only seen the cd with the 515 and 516.  I've never seen or heard of the L'Archibudelli recording of the k.593 and 614.

Nah, Flauto was just kidding, saying he would pay anything for it. It doesn't exist. Hell, I would too...

[Bogey]

PW,
If you happen to see it around $40 again, even used, could you please PM me?  I need one for my God children.

[PerfectWagnerite]

FWIW:

http://www.amazon.com/Ludwig-van-Beethoven-Complete-Quartets/dp/B000051ZPV/ref=pd_bbs_1/102-7134284-2880939?ie=UTF8&s=music&qid=1181420924&sr=8-1

Is this one different?
http://www.amazon.com/Beethoven-Complete-Quartets-Ludwig-van/dp/B0000DET84/ref=pd_bbs_sr_2/103-7144312-5978203?ie=UTF8&s=music&qid=1181421818&sr=1-2

The price now is close to $60 but a few months ago there were quite few copies selling for $37.

[PerfectWagnerite]

PW,
If you happen to see it around $40 again, even used, could you please PM me?  I need one for my God children.

Yesterday I was at Academy CD and there was a copy for $40 (maybe $45) but the outer box was a bit worn. The CDs were pristine. It has been there for awhile so chances are it is not a top-seller. There is also the Talich set for about the same price.

[Bogey]

Is this one different?
http://www.amazon.com/Beethoven-Complete-Quartets-Ludwig-van/dp/B0000DET84/ref=pd_bbs_sr_2/103-7144312-5978203?ie=UTF8&s=music&qid=1181421818&sr=1-2

The price now is close to $60 but a few months ago there were quite few copies selling for $37.

Sure does look the same.

[Que]

Sure does look the same.

It could be its previous incarnation (8 separate CD's in a cardboard sleeve box)

Q

[marvinbrown]

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

    This... 


   Yes Solti's Ring, paid 84 UK pounds (including UK import tax, shipping and handling)  last year.  Bought it from amazon.co.uk marketplace. Yes I financially bled for that recording.  Why?  Well first its Wagner, and it came at a very special time in my listening life.  I had literally worn out Furtwangler's RAI recording  of the Ring, practically had it memorized yet all along was displeased with the sound quality yet remarkably impressed with Furtwangler's conducting.  I was looking for a recording that had exceptional sound.  The reputation this recording had was phenomenal, all the reviews I read refer to Solti and use it as the yardstick to which other recordings were measured.  I decided this is a MUST HAVE and took the plunge.  The sound and power of this recording as well as the unbelievable cast make it one of my most prized possessions. (after this purchase I did not buy a cd for a month and a half)

[Bogey]

It could be its previous incarnation (8 separate CD's in a cardboard sleeve box)

Q

Ah!

[Poetdante]

Among the classical music albums,
hmm..Richard Goode's Beethoven Complete Piano Sonata recording (nearly $120) was most expensive of mine.
Unfornuately,  I have not bought Wagner's Ring.

But in my memory, the most expensive album but rewarding album was this.



Radiohead - Airbag: How Am I Driving?

I bought this in 2000, when this album was completely sold out for a long time in Korea.
I had to buy used one for nealry $40, but the album was re-imported recently. 

[marvinbrown]

Among the classical music albums,
hmm..Richard Goode's Beethoven Complete Piano Sonata recording (nearly $120) was most expensive of mine.
Unfornuately,  I have not bought Wagner's Ring.

  WOW $120 for the complete piano sonatas of Beethoven....I bought Gulda's complete piano sonatas of Beethoven for £15 ($30). 

   marvin