The Super-Duper Cheap Bargains Thread

[Ken B]

If correct price, may qualify as top: The Super-Duper Cheap Bargain
from Import cd's



$4.66
List Price: $53.99
You Save: $49.33 (91%)
Inventory: Not Yet Released, Available Soon
http://www.importcds.com/music/2496984/eternal-maurice-andre

I've seen this sort of stuff from importcds before. Notice you cannot place an order. By the time you can that won't be the price.

[kishnevi]

Just orderered from ImportCDs Amazon storefront the Jarvi Gothenburg Nielsen cycle for $5.96 including s/h.  There is at least one other copy at the same price from a vendor I have never heard of.

[Moonfish]

If you are into Mengelberg Amazon.UK currently has a good price on the relatively recent Decca-Italy collection:
GBP 21 (15 cds). It goes for USD 100 on Amazon in the US ($74 in the Amazon MP).
The sound is a bit "crispy" at times, but it great music-making.

Note - Brahms: Symphony No 1 is also included in this set (Decca forgot to list it on the back of the box).

http://www.amazon.co.uk/The-Concertgebouw-Recordings-Willem-Mengelberg/dp/B00CW1MDL4/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1398148723&sr=8-1&keywords=mengelberg

[Moonfish]

Sony's Wagner set (40 cds) for $24 (+S&H) on the Amazon MP

The box includes the Janowski Ring cycle with the Staatskapelle Dresden, which is very good rendition plus a bunch of other recordings. The set received mixed reviews, but the Janowski Ring plus a Keilberth Meistersinger, a Leinsdorf Lohengrin and a Karajan Parsifal is a great deal in my eyes. The Levine Dutchman has received poor reviews. Still, lots of bang for the bucks and definitely a great starter set for Wagner.....

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The Janowski Ring is also available separately in another good deal (which includes the librettos) on the Amazon MP
$23 + S&H

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[otare]

If you are into Mengelberg Amazon.UK currently has a good price on the relatively recent Decca-Italy collection:
GBP 21 (15 cds). It goes for USD 100 on Amazon in the US ($74 in the Amazon MP).
The sound is a bit "crispy" at times, but it great music-making.

Note - Brahms: Symphony No 1 is also included in this set (Decca forgot to list it on the back of the box).

http://www.amazon.co.uk/The-Concertgebouw-Recordings-Willem-Mengelberg/dp/B00CW1MDL4/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1398148723&sr=8-1&keywords=mengelberg

The sound is actually quite good - after all these are live recordings from 1939 and 1940. Among other things there is a fabulous recording of Mahler's 4th in there.

[Moonfish]

The sound is actually quite good - after all these are live recordings from 1939 and 1940. Among other things there is a fabulous recording of Mahler's 4th in there.

I agree completely. I listened to Beethoven's 3rd and 4th recently and very much enjoyed the music. The sound is definitely late 30s, but I view it as a privilege to actually hear the recording. I guess one gets used to the sound of the era. So far the sound has been very acceptable from my perspective, but this is clearly subjective so potential buyers need to watch out. This is definitely not digital sound.

[Ken B]

MP3 download, complete Vox recordings of Mozart solo piano by Walter Klien, 99 cents
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One of the treasures of the Vox catalogue, as are all the Klien solo surveys

[Moonfish]

The Westminster Legacy Collection just dropped to GBP 63 at Amazon UK     

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Westminster-Legacy-Various-Artists/dp/B00GBJVK0S/ref=sr_1_1?s=music&ie=UTF8&qid=1399094378&sr=1-1&keywords=westminster+legacy

[Mookalafalas]

This is a wonderful box. Top drawer performers.  26 CDs for $24 from some of the Amazon sellers (including Import CD)

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[Ken B]

This is a wonderful box. Top drawer performers.  26 CDs for $24 from some of the Amazon sellers (including Import CD)

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SOLD

I don't need it but crikey at that price ...

[Ken B]

Some good prices at Presto including Prokofiev, 6 operas on DG, 14 discs, $50

http://www.prestoclassical.co.uk/r/Decca/4782315

[Ken B]

This is a wonderful box. Top drawer performers.  26 CDs for $24 from some of the Amazon sellers (including Import CD)

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You fiend. There goes my last bit of shelf space. I need to sell, compact, or store a bunch of stuff now 

[Mookalafalas]

You fiend. There goes my last bit of shelf space. I need to sell, compact, or store a bunch of stuff now 

  I'm doing you a favor. You just have to put your DIY hat on.  Make yourself some nice long narrow boxes and think "card files"!

[Moonfish]

You fiend. There goes my last bit of shelf space. I need to sell, compact, or store a bunch of stuff now 

Expand your shelves upwards silly and buy a ladder!!! 

[The new erato]

Expand your shelves upwards silly and buy a ladder!!! 

Though you would do well to remember what happened to the house of one of our esteemed members after the last big box purchase:

[Moonfish]

Though you would do well to remember what happened to the house of one of our esteemed members after the last big box purchase:

Yeah, he should never had placed his HIP recordings in the right part of the house. How thoughtless...

[Ken B]

$10 from some MP

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And $16

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[Mookalafalas]

I'm curious about the Cluytens.  That French Beethoven box used to go for a song, but the price jumped quite a bit. If I get it, I will (of course) go for the whole shebang.

[Ken B]

I'm curious about the Cluytens.  That French Beethoven box used to go for a song, but the price jumped quite a bit. If I get it, I will (of course) go for the whole shebang.

One of the best Beethoven cycles. Big big BIG Beethoven, Beethoven storms heaven.

[Holden]

One of the best Beethoven cycles. Big big BIG Beethoven, Beethoven storms heaven.

My first ever LvB set (on LP) and still one of the best that I own. For that price it  is well worth getting just for the performance of the Pastoral - sublime!