The Super-Duper Cheap Bargains Thread

[Turner]

Some extremely cheap stuff from the German Zweitausendeins. Normally, their postage fee is reasonable and fixed.
Mompou plays Mompou 4 CD : 1,20 Euros, etc.
I´m not buying anything of it myself, though.

https://www.zweitausendeins.de/thema/aktuell/zum-vorfruehling-sticht-uns-der-hafer-ab-sofort-70-prozent-extra-rabatt-auf-ueber-200-titel.html/?dir=asc&order=price&p=4&sc_eh=1850ca124b2b7db51&sc_lid=13597738&sc_llid=11045&sc_src=email_170240&sc_uid=N7O4PVzYuv

[Papy Oli]

The complete Brendel / Philips boxset is at €109 Euros on Amazon Italy (114 CD)

https://www.amazon.it/gp/product/B014VLVTW6/ref=ox_sc_act_title_1?smid=A11IL2PNWYJU7H&psc=1

[DaveF]

Some extremely cheap stuff from the German Zweitausendeins. Normally, their postage fee is reasonable and fixed.

Including, I see, Barshai's Mahler 5, which received lots of recommendations on a recent thread.

[Harry]

16 titles from Audite, among them some Franck titles for 9,99. JPC de
This label in not often lowered in price so....

https://www.jpc.de/s/audite-Preisaktion?searchtype=campaigntext


And also this box from Sony with Telemann's music, 30 cd's for 19,95, that is truly a bargain.

https://www.jpc.de/jpcng/classic/detail/-/art/meisterwerke/hnum/6469557


Frieder Bernius, 15 CD'S for 19,95.

https://www.jpc.de/jpcng/classic/detail/-/art/masterworks/hnum/6708746

[Que]

€20 at jpc, I'm tempted...


https://www.jpc.de/jpcng/classic/detail/-/art/meisterwerke/hnum/6469557

[Jo498]

So am I but I think I have a considerable portion of these recordings already and I am not sure if I really need the complete "Musik-Meister" or the Essercizi musici. At least one of the operas also got very mixed reviews and there are also a few fairly old (Collegium Aureum) recordings included. I think I'll pass for now.

[kishnevi]

So am I but I think I have a considerable portion of these recordings already and I am not sure if I really need the complete "Musik-Meister" or the Essercizi musici. At least one of the operas also got very mixed reviews and there are also a few fairly old (Collegium Aureum) recordings included. I think I'll pass for now.

FWIW, the complete Musikmeister can be had as part of the DHM Telemann Edition (the one that's part of their 10CD compilation sets).

[Que]

So am I but I think I have a considerable portion of these recordings already and I am not sure if I really need the complete "Musik-Meister" or the Essercizi musici. At least one of the operas also got very mixed reviews and there are also a few fairly old (Collegium Aureum) recordings included. I think I'll pass for now.

I think I'm in the same boat. 

Q

[akebergv]

One of the boxes at a good price at Amazon.it has been Rudolf Serkin: The Complete Columbia Album Collecion, sold for €116. Right now the same box can be had for €99.99 at both Amazon.de (https://www.amazon.de/Rudolf-Serkin-Complete-Columbia-Collection/dp/B06XKWL779/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1519575511&sr=8-1&keywords=rudolf+serkin+the+complete) and German JPC (https://www.jpc.de/jpcng/classic/detail/-/art/complete-box-set/hnum/6424108).

[king ubu]

JPC also has the Harnoncourt/Leonhardt Bach cantatas box for 80€ (minus German VAT, 3€ shipping within yurp) - succumbed, after a good friend told me more about this cycle (and after reading a recently published book Alice H. compiled from notes/notebooks NH filled during the early years of the Concentus - quite a hoot!) - here's the link:

https://www.jpc.de/jpcng/classic/detail/-/art/Johann-Sebastian-Bach-1685-1750-The-Sacred-Cantatas-Teldec-Edition-Das-Alte-Werk/hnum/9149161

[Harry]

JPC also has the Harnoncourt/Leonhardt Bach cantatas box for 80€ (minus German VAT, 3€ shipping within yurp) - succumbed, after a good friend told me more about this cycle (and after reading a recently published book Alice H. compiled from notes/notebooks NH filled during the early years of the Concentus - quite a hoot!) - here's the link:

https://www.jpc.de/jpcng/classic/detail/-/art/Johann-Sebastian-Bach-1685-1750-The-Sacred-Cantatas-Teldec-Edition-Das-Alte-Werk/hnum/9149161

Well I would certainly be interested to read about your travail through the set.

[ritter]

One of the boxes at a good price at Amazon.it has been Rudolf Serkin: The Complete Columbia Album Collecion, sold for €116. Right now the same box can be had for €99.99 at both Amazon.de (https://www.amazon.de/Rudolf-Serkin-Complete-Columbia-Collection/dp/B06XKWL779/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1519575511&sr=8-1&keywords=rudolf+serkin+the+complete) and German JPC (https://www.jpc.de/jpcng/classic/detail/-/art/complete-box-set/hnum/6424108).

Thanks for the heads-up. I've never seen this set so attractively priced, and am seriously considering it (but shelf space is a problem...as might also be the patience of my significant other  )...

[king ubu]

Well I would certainly be interested to read about your travail through the set.

I will not manage to do so while the offer is running, I guess 

I also see it's ordered from the distributor, so might take a bit longer to arrive than I assumed.

Have the complete Gardiner cycle already, played about a third of it ... what I did once was follow the cycle from x-mas on, Sunday by Sunday, and adding the other recordings of the respective cantatas I had at the time (some by the evil Bach-Richter and other have been added since, and I guess on several Sundays there'd simply be too many to play them all ... this can be done with the Gardiner box, not sure it's feasible with the Harnoncourt, which has, I understand, to be followed chronologically by recording date - to heard the band and its playing evolve as time went by.

Forgot to say: I made it through easter and I guess into May that year (that was three years back I guess) but then somehow stopped ... too bad, as it was great to get a weekly hefty dose of Bach!

[Ken B]

Well I would certainly be interested to read about your travail through the set.

I like it a lot but it has some points that will put people off. The first is the use of boy sopranos. Sometimes they are very good, and sometimes they necessitate skipping tracks. This is the biggest thing to think about. If you don't like brats, don't buy this set. In general the orchestral sounds are a bit harsher than the more modern cycles. But it is very lively and vigorous. The right word in English is "rude" but not as in impolite. The set feels less religious than Suzuki but equally committed.

[kishnevi]

I will not manage to do so while the offer is running, I guess 

I also see it's ordered from the distributor, so might take a bit longer to arrive than I assumed.

Have the complete Gardiner cycle already, played about a third of it ... what I did once was follow the cycle from x-mas on, Sunday by Sunday, and adding the other recordings of the respective cantatas I had at the time (some by the evil Bach-Richter and other have been added since, and I guess on several Sundays there'd simply be too many to play them all ... this can be done with the Gardiner box, not sure it's feasible with the Harnoncourt, which has, I understand, to be followed chronologically by recording date - to heard the band and its playing evolve as time went by.

Forgot to say: I made it through easter and I guess into May that year (that was three years back I guess) but then somehow stopped ... too bad, as it was great to get a weekly hefty dose of Bach!

If I read the tealeaves correctly, this is back in print
[asin]B077QT18DW[/asin]
Amazon.de has it for €170, AmazonItaly for €159.
Of course, the appeal may lessen if you already have some of the performances.   It includes the Harn.Leon. cycle in BWV order.

[king ubu]

If I read the tealeaves correctly, this is back in print
[asin]B077QT18DW[/asin]
Amazon.de has it for €170, AmazonItaly for €159.
Of course, the appeal may lessen if you already have some of the performances.   It includes the Harn.Leon. cycle in BWV order.

So that's why they sell the cantatas box cheaply now you mean? Makes sense ... however, I really am leaving my comfort zone (Herreweghe, Gardiner) there, getting the Harnoncourt/Leonhardt cycle (not fond of brat singers for instance, but I can cope with them), and I guess generally this is not necessarily a box for me anyway - but yeah aCOM - your link - gives Feb 23 as release date, it IS back in print.

I love this sentence from the promo blurb:

This was the first complete edition of the sacred cantatas performed on period instruments in the history of the gramophone and remains so to this day.

Really? 

[North Star]

I love this sentence from the promo blurb:

Really? 

Yes, it's still the first one. LOL.

[Jo498]

It will obviously always remain the first but the blurb is surprising because Rilling's must have been already complete around the time the first or second CD re-issue of the Teldec DAS ALTE WERK appeared in the 1990s. I have ca. 35/60 so I will not get the box. The boys are not always bad but fairly inconsistent (hardly surprising as they are different ones over ca. 15 years from the early 1970s to the 1980s).

[Baron Scarpia]

It will obviously always remain the first but the blurb is surprising because Rilling's must have been already complete around the time the first or second CD re-issue of the Teldec DAS ALTE WERK appeared in the 1990s. I have ca. 35/60 so I will not get the box. The boys are not always bad but fairly inconsistent (hardly surprising as they are different ones over ca. 15 years from the early 1970s to the 1980s).

Rilling is besides the point, since his is not PI. The phrasing is certainly bizarre, because once something is the first how can it not remain the first?

In any case, people seem to obsess about the cantata cycles in these Bach editions. The Teldec edition has some other very fine stuff, such as the Koopman Organ works, chamber and orchestral music by Harnoncourt and others (The Brandenburgs are not Harnoncourt). Harpsichord music by Curtis and others. (Take everything I say with a grain of salt, in view of my famously faulty memory.)

FWIW, I have the Teldec and Hanssler editions, as well as the Gardiner Cantata set, of which I have listened to relatively little so far.

[prémont]

It will obviously always remain the first but the blurb is surprising because Rilling's must have been already complete around the time the first or second CD re-issue of the Teldec DAS ALTE WERK appeared in the 1990s. I have ca. 35/60 so I will not get the box. The boys are not always bad but fairly inconsistent (hardly surprising as they are different ones over ca. 15 years from the early 1970s to the 1980s).

The text above says "the first recording with period instruments". So Rilling is out of the race.

Other than that I find some of Rillings soloists rather unlistenable. Too much operatic vibrato.