The Super-Duper Cheap Bargains Thread

[ChamberNut]

At Presto, I'm considering this one. 12 CDs for $38.22 CDN (in today's world, a pretty good bargain, if not super-duper)

[Roasted Swan]

At Presto, I'm considering this one. 12 CDs for $38.22 CDN (in today's world, a pretty good bargain, if not super-duper)

the same set can be downloaded as FLAC files for just £10.50 - CDN $19.02

[Brian]

Finally, another Super-Duper Cheap Bargain!
https://www.jpc.de/s/BIS+Boxen-Aktion?searchtype=campaigntext

BIS box sets at JPC, including the Albeniz complete piano music for only 20 euros. The cheapest I'd seen this previously was US $55.

[Brian]

Also, Johannes Klump's contribution to the Heidelberg Haydn symphony cycle is available for just 10 euros for 6 CDs!

https://www.jpc.de/jpcng/classic/detail/-/art/joseph-haydn-symphonien-nr-2-17-20/hnum/12138808

Symphonies No.3,11-16,21-24,28-30,32,33,55,67,68,72 (complete set exclusively for jpc)

[hopefullytrusting]

Presto is having a massive sale on Harmonia Mundi and sibling labels (some of my favorite labels, none of which have ever failed me).

Example: Couperin's Complete Keyboard Works (over 5 hours of music) is 50 percent off.

https://www.prestomusic.com/classical/products/8056748--couperin-complete-harpsichord-works

[DavidW]

Presto is having a massive sale on Harmonia Mundi and sibling labels (some of my favorite labels, none of which have ever failed me).

Example: Couperin's Complete Keyboard Works (over 5 hours of music) is 50 percent off.

https://www.prestomusic.com/classical/products/8056748--couperin-complete-harpsichord-works

If Moroney's Couperin is as good as his Byrd that is the set for me!

[DavidW]

Qobuz has download fest with 80% off but those dimwits didn't think to allow one to at least restrict the list by genre, which makes it impossible to navigate.

[DaveF]

Qobuz has download fest with 80% off but those dimwits didn't think to allow one to at least restrict the list by genre, which makes it impossible to navigate.

The sale is grouped by record label, so you can get some idea (and the average label has only a couple of pages of discs), but yes, it is frustrating - but that's Qobuz, whose whole search engine is terrible rubbish.  Worth a good look through though!

[Mookalafalas]

Michael Tilson Thomas complete RCA etc. from Amazon.es for 118 Euros after VAT is removed. there is still shipping, but still pretty sweet deal.

[Roasted Swan]

A STUNNING bargain download is the Stanislaw Skrowaczewki 90th birthday set from Oehms in the Qobuz sale.  The equivalent of 28(!) CDs in FLAC downloads for £8.70.  This includes his COMPLETE Bruckner/Beethoven/Schumann/Brahms symphony cycles.  Genuinely very very fine

[Spotted Horses]

It's been around for a while, I purchased it from Qobuz a while back for a similar price. Another pretty good one is the Nicholas Angelich Hommage edition on Presto. 7CDs worth for $10 (FLAC download).

https://www.prestomusic.com/classical/products/9521265--nicholas-angelich-hommage

[JBS]

The Warner Sawallisch Complete Opera set has gone down considerably on Amazon Marketplace.
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0D3J5ZJZN/

But the vendor offering the lowest price, Oxfordshire England, is one I have had problems with before, with orders for items they didn"t really have in stock. So be warned. I-Deals and Import CD plus at least one other vendor are offering it for about $20 more--but that's still 1/3 off list price and about $20 less than what it was being sold for a few weeks ago.

[DaveF]

Not sure if I'm taking unfair advantage of Qobuz here, but I think it's been mentioned somewhere before that they are not very good at distinguishing between box sets and single discs.  Hence they currently have, for £17.40, the complete Pettersson edition, Holmboe complete symphonies, Brautigam's complete Beethoven sonatas, Schnittke complete symphones, and probably lots more.  The first might not be on my automatic purchases list, but at those prices I'm off for a splurge...

[Mapman]

Many of the recent George Lloyd releases (including the complete symphonies) are discounted at JPC. https://www.jpc.de/s/george+lloyd

[Der lächelnde Schatten]

Many of the recent George Lloyd releases (including the complete symphonies) are discounted at JPC. https://www.jpc.de/s/george+lloyd

Thanks for the alert. Aren't all of these recordings CD-Rs?

[Brian]

Thanks for the alert. Aren't all of these recordings CD-Rs?

Just pulled out my copy of the symphonies and they have that faint blueish tint.

[Der lächelnde Schatten]

Just pulled out my copy of the symphonies and they have that faint blueish tint.

Thanks for this post and just as I suspected and this is one of the main reasons why I stopped buying Lyrita recordings. The last Lyrita CD I bought, which was the middle SQs of Alwyn was a CD-R. So disappointing, especially when Amazon didn't even mention anything about it in the product description.

[Christo]

Thanks for this post and just as I suspected and this is one of the main reasons why I stopped buying Lyrita recordings. The last Lyrita CD I bought, which was the middle SQs of Alwyn was a CD-R. So disappointing, especially when Amazon didn't even mention anything about it in the product description.

Can you explain the difference in quality to a layman? 

[Der lächelnde Schatten]

Can you explain the difference in quality to a layman? 

This is some information gathered through a Google search:

The quality of the CD and Music CD media are the same. However, CD-R music discs are encoded with information that the CD recorder uses to identify the disc as the appropriate music media.

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Let me further add that also not all CD-Rs can be played in a CD player. I have a newer CD player that should play all CD-Rs with no problem, but there are occasions where it rejects them. Also (and this is related to what I wrote previously), sometimes in rare occasions, a CD-R's data can become corrupted or all of a sudden can not be read in any CD player/burner any longer.

I used to burn CD-Rs for playback for my older car's CD player as I didn't want to take the original CD with me and risk damaging it and this is one thing they are good for, but be aware that problems with playback can happen with a CD-R.

[Kalevala]

Just pulled out my copy of the symphonies and they have that faint blueish tint.

Thanks for this post and just as I suspected and this is one of the main reasons why I stopped buying Lyrita recordings. The last Lyrita CD I bought, which was the middle SQs of Alwyn was a CD-R. So disappointing, especially when Amazon didn't even mention anything about it in the product description.

Personally, I'd rather have the music on any format than to not have it at all.  I bought a Meridian CD-R a number of years ago and haven't had any issues with it.  It was of some of Bernard Stevens music.

K