The Super-Duper Cheap Bargains Thread

[Opus106]

Gunter Wand's symphonic statements (29 CDs 28 CDs and 1 DVD) on Sony for ~ 40 Euros, anyone?

http://www.amazon.es/gp/product/B0069EOZT8/

You may have to beef up you cart to justify the nearly 20-Euros they ask for shipping. As mentioned earlier, there are a few other bargains to get as well. There's also the Bernstein Edition, for around 70.

[listener]

another amazon delay for the Dvorak box,
We're still trying to obtain the following item  you ordered on April 24, 2012...           
  Dvorak, et al "Dvorak: Symphonic Works"
Still want it? We'll keep on trying. To keep your order for this item open, please
click the link below. Otherwise, we'll cancel your order on July 05, 2012, if we
haven't located it by then.

[Willoughby earl of Itacarius]

For those that wanted the Hogwood Symphony box for a low price, JPC de has it for 40 euro's.


http://www.jpc.de/jpcng/classic/detail/-/art/Wolfgang-Amadeus-Mozart-1756-1791-S%E4mtliche-Symphonien/hnum/2310676

[The new erato]

Gunter Wand's symphonic statements (29 CDs) on Sony for ~ 40 Euros, anyone?

http://www.amazon.es/gp/product/B0069EOZT8/

You may have to beef up you cart to justify the nearly 20-Euros they ask for shipping. As mentioned earlier, there are a few other bargains to get as well. There's also the Bernstein Edition, for around 70.

Add this:

[asin]B002NZOLFA[/asin]

http://www.amazon.es/Broadway-Musicals-Porter-Berlin-Various/dp/B002NZOLFA/ref=pd_sim_m_52

13 wonderful discs for 22 Euros!

[Ken B]

That McGlinn on Broadway set is fabulous -- I am listening to it at the moment in fact.

[Elgarian]

13 wonderful discs for 22 Euros!

Thanks erato (and not for the first time). I've just ordered one.

[The new erato]

I have them all as originally issued; they are all plain awesome.

[kishnevi]

Received an email today from ImportCDs which may be of use to folks here, although it doesn't really count as a bargain.

Now through 24 June, you can save an extra 10% on anything you buy from their website (but not from their Amazon Marketplace store) by using the coupon code SAVE10  when you order.  There are apparently no restrictions on what this applies to, no restrictions on the amount of the order,   and it can be used more than once.

[johnsmith21997]

I don't necessarily agree with the practice of finding "super-duper cheap bargains" as I believe the best bargain is when you find the recording of a particular work and not have to buy more than one recording of the same work. For example all of the English HIP works -- I am thinking of Pinnock, Marriner, and Gardiner in particular -- could be burned without any one in their right mind caring.

I know this is off topic, but who else here would love it if they started packaging CDs the same as LPs. In the cardboard sleaves. I am just so sick of how much space the plastic CDs take up and at how superfluous some of the plastic is. The worst, however, is when you get a plastic case that doesn't carry the "CD-Rom" logo, as they are the equivalent of what Mega-Bloks is to lego.

[Elgarian]

I believe the best bargain is when you find the recording of a particular work and not have to buy more than one recording of the same work.

I suspect you're just trying to stir us up, but I'll choose to take the comment seriously.

How, among all the ravishing and varied recordings of Der Ring that exist (for example), are you going to determine 'the one'? Put a gun to my head, and I might say alright then, take them all except Solti. But not to hear Jones's or Hunter's Brunnhilde again? Oh no, no, no. Please no. And opera isn't a special case: I recently discovered there are at least four recordings of Scheherazade where each is outstanding in its own way, and none of which I'd part with without a serious fight. I could go on and on like this. The wonderful thing about 'bargains' is that they permit us to pursue the search for musical treasure at little cost. Indeed, I could argue, if pressed, that the journey is as important as the arriving. It's one of the ways we grow.

[prémont]

I don't necessarily agree with the practice of finding "super-duper cheap bargains" as I believe the best bargain is when you find the recording of a particular work and not have to buy more than one recording of the same work. For example all of the English HIP works -- I am thinking of Pinnock, Marriner, and Gardiner in particular -- could be burned without any one in their right mind caring.

As the definite recording of any musical work doesn´t exist - and will never be made, it is necessary to listen to different recordings. Anything else would be wearing aural blinders.

BTW, since when has Sir Marriner been considered part of the HIP movement?

[bigshot]

I don't necessarily agree with the practice of finding "super-duper cheap bargains" as I believe the best bargain is when you find the recording of a particular work and not have to buy more than one recording of the same work.

Absurd.

[eyeresist]

I don't necessarily agree with the practice of finding "super-duper cheap bargains" as I believe the best bargain is when you find the recording of a particular work and not have to buy more than one recording of the same work. For example all of the English HIP works -- I am thinking of Pinnock, Marriner, and Gardiner in particular -- could be burned without any one in their right mind caring.

1. It can indeed be a saving to find a "benchmark" recording, so that one feels no need to look further. OTOH, this is meaningless for works which one feels compelled to discover via many versions.

2. Way to slip in a completely unrelated, unsupported sneer at the efforts of the HIPsters (specifically the British ones, for some reason). You'll go far.

[Christo]

not any longer:
  "Due to a lack of availability, we will not be able to obtain the following item(s)
from your order:
  Sweelinck, et al "Complete Psalms"
We've canceled the item(s) and apologize for the inconvenience..."

Ah, same here. Only now I see we're all in the same boat. 

[Brian]

1. It can indeed be a saving to find a "benchmark" recording, so that one feels no need to look further. OTOH, this is meaningless for works which one feels compelled to discover via many versions.

Also, many super-duper bargains are for works where no "benchmark" exists. For instance, if you buy a box of the complete Haydn baryton trios, you can't possibly be thinking "but I'm missing out by not having the classic Beaux Arts Trio readings."

[Will Sheard]

another amazon delay for the Dvorak box,
We're still trying to obtain the following item  you ordered on April 24, 2012...           
  Dvorak, et al "Dvorak: Symphonic Works"
Still want it? We'll keep on trying. To keep your order for this item open, please
click the link below. Otherwise, we'll cancel your order on July 05, 2012, if we
haven't located it by then.

Patience is indeed a virtue, apparently. I ordered the Dvorak set on April 21; lo and behold, it is now in transit and will be with me tomorrow.

[Brian]

Patience is indeed a virtue, apparently. I ordered the Dvorak set on April 21; lo and behold, it is now in transit and will be with me tomorrow.

Now hold on! I ordered mine April 20. 

[Elgarian]

Now hold on! I ordered mine April 20. 

Bad luck Brian. Just a day too soon ....

[Brian]

Bad luck Brian. Just a day too soon ....

Never mind - just got the shipment email. Hooray!!!!

[Karl Henning]

Huzzah!