The Super-Duper Cheap Bargains Thread

[Ken B]

I have this set,  Gould's  (obviously in a world category of its own,  Uchida, and Lili Kraus.  Of the four,  van Oort is my favorite, and enough of a favorite that I don't feel the need to go looking for any more performances of these works.  It's also a very complete set, including one CD of little Wolfie's doodlings as a kid in London.

Good enough for me! I only have Uchida, but she's very good.
Self Bday present.

[DavidW]

Are these mostly present in the Brilliant Classics Megabox Mozart compilation?

I thought that was Klara Wurtz in the Mozart set, and van Oort in the Haydn set.

[Moonfish]

I thought that was Klara Wurtz in the Mozart set, and van Oort in the Haydn set.

Hmm, you are right. Wurtz does most of the sonatas. However, Oort does some of the piano variations. I get confused with the mega compilations....   

[Ken B]

Hmm, you are right. Wurtz does most of the sonatas. However, Oort does some of the piano variations. I get confused with the mega compilations....   

You just need to spend more time in a cold ill-lit room letting the discs run through your fingers, and chortling.

[Gurn Blanston]

I thought that was Klara Wurtz in the Mozart set, and van Oort in the Haydn set.

Actually, they are two (no, three) different sets. Wurtz was the first Brilliant Mozart. Then Oort and Dütschler (for the 4 hands stuff) did a 10 or 11 disk set that went into the first Big Box. Then, Oort came out wit the 14 disk set that had not only some of the lesser stuff which he missed the first time around, but also 2 or 3 world premieres of stuff, like the ballet suite from Ascanio in Alba, IIRC. So the 14 is the way to go. I didn't know there was a newer version. If I had a choice I would take it with the notes on CD-R, because you can't count on the other one having any notes at all.

[North Star]

You just need to spend more time in a cold ill-lit room letting the discs run through your fingers, and chortling.

You did it GMG way

[Moonfish]

You just need to spend more time in a cold ill-lit room letting the discs run through your fingers, and chortling.

Like this...? The GMG way....?



Brilliant Classics Mozart cds after being transformed........

[Justin]

Currently quite a bargain on Hyperion's "Please, someone buy me" offering:



Nice stuff!

[Harry]

Currently quite a bargain on Hyperion's "Please, someone buy me" offering:



Nice stuff!

Tis a pity, that the same stuff is posted over and over again, like the piano works by liszt, or Pitts, or, or... and they are charging absurd postal cost also, no fun for me anymore.

[The new erato]

Tis a pity, that the same stuff is posted over and over again, like the piano works by liszt, or Pitts, or, or... and they are charging absurd postal cost also, no fun for me anymore.

At least they have many Liszt discs to choose from and I haven't noted that they are repeating the same discs all the time. Also, with the release of the collected set it is to be expected that many of the single discs turn up in the least bought pile. Their postage rate to Norway is about par to the course to other sellers in my experience.

[Harry]

At least they have many Liszt discs to choose from and I haven't noted that they are repeating the same discs all the time. Also, with the release of the collected set it is to be expected that many of the single discs turn up in the least bought pile. Their postage rate to Norway is about par to the course to other sellers in my experience.

My friend, I know you are a great fan of the please buy me site of Hyperion, I was too. But when I say that they repeat the same discs over and over again, its based on the fact that I look in regularly every time when they change the stock, so the fact that you did not see this doesn't mean that it is untrue. And about the postage rate, maybe you remember that buying 2 discs from this site meant no postage, and the more you bought meant a decrease in the price. I took advantage of this last year, when I bought a pile of Helios discs. Not so anymore, so its not worth my while anymore to go there. Sure they lowered their prices, but at this rate I can buy them cheaper on Amazon or JPC even.

[The new erato]

Well most of their rarelys bought discs that I want I seem to already have often I've bought their larger sets so all the single discs that turn up I already have), so though I go there regularly, it is some time since I bought there. And though they indeed sem to have increased their P&P, most UK sources charge £2 for a single disc to Norway  to their 2.87.

[Harry]

Well most of their rarelys bought discs that I want I seem to already have often I've bought their larger sets so all the single discs that turn up I already have), so though I go there regularly, it is some time since I bought there. And though they indeed sem to have increased their P&P, most UK sources charge £2 for a single disc to Norway  to their 2.87.

Before Hyperion charged 60 p a disc!!!, but if you bought 2 or more, no postage at all.

[The new erato]

Before Hyperion charged 60 p a disc!!!, but if you bought 2 or more, no postage at all.

Yes, I wondered how they could afford it......

[Moonfish]

The relatively new re-release of the Richter Bach Cantatas set (26 cd) is currently quite affordable at Amazon.de

http://www.amazon.de/Bach-Kantaten-Karl-Richter/dp/B00EYPQ4SY/ref=sr_1_2?s=music&ie=UTF8&qid=1394834002&sr=1-2&keywords=richter+bach

[Wanderer]

Currently quite a bargain on Hyperion's "Please, someone buy me" offering:



Nice stuff!

Indeed, and since I didn't have this last volume of Shelley's excellent Clementi sonatas survey, I snatched it up.

By the way, among the current batch of their discounted items, the Liszt vol.10 (Howard playing Hexaméron & Symphonie fantastique, a great highlight of Hyperion's Liszt edition), Monteverdi and Latin American baroque discs are all very highly recommended.

[Ken B]

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[Moonfish]

There is a sale at MDT!!!!     
Good deals!
I see corresponding reductions in the Amazon market place....

http://www.mdt.co.uk/special-offers/collectors-edition-boxsets.html?p=1

[Moonfish]

Dvořák: Complete String Quartets (10 cd) with the Stamitz Quartet for 15 Euros at Amazon.de

http://www.amazon.de/Dvorak-String-Quartets-Stamitz-Quartet/dp/B00007B9P2/ref=pd_sim_sbs_m_1?ie=UTF8&refRID=0JZTA21MWASXFSAK5PX3

[Ken B]

Dvořák: Complete String Quartets (10 cd) with the Stamitz Quartet for 15 Euros at Amazon.de

http://www.amazon.de/Dvorak-String-Quartets-Stamitz-Quartet/dp/B00007B9P2/ref=pd_sim_sbs_m_1?ie=UTF8&refRID=0JZTA21MWASXFSAK5PX3

A very good set.