The Super-Duper Cheap Bargains Thread

[mc ukrneal]

Not sure about opera, but quite a bit of choral: Missa solemnis, Creation, some Haydn Masses, Berlioz' Requiem...

He recorded Verdi's Falstaff on Sony (originally CBS Masterworks) for sure.

[king ubu]

Thought so ... thanks! I guess I'll go for this one, not sure about a choral/vocal/opera one, not having much of an idea what it may actually contain.

[Brian]

And of course a choral box would have lots of his own music, like Chichester Psalms. I think he did a Janacek Glagolitic which is now very hard to find.

[stingo]

As seen on Blu-ray.com. 40 Classical Blu-rays for $144.01 + S&H (or no S&H with Prime).

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[jut1972]

http://hometheater.racuntik.us/where-to-buy-blu-ray-audio-signature-classical-collection-40-discs-7-1-dts-hd-3d-sound-updated-edition.html

Thanks for posting that I'll keep an eye out for it in the UK.
In the mean time I can recommend this review.

[stingo]

http://hometheater.racuntik.us/where-to-buy-blu-ray-audio-signature-classical-collection-40-discs-7-1-dts-hd-3d-sound-updated-edition.html

Thanks for posting that I'll keep an eye out for it in the UK.
In the mean time I can recommend this review.

They couldn't even get all of the works listed. Here's the listing and a real review from amazon.

Review
This music-only Blu-ray discs delivers 7.1 DTS-HD Master Audio if and when connections are made with 1.3 and/or 1.4 HDMI cables. If connected with optical cables it will only deliver 5.1 or 6.1 standard DTS quality sound. For the purpose of this review I only used high-speed 1.3 cables connecting the Blu-ray player and the 7.2 AV receiver. I should mention that the present receiver is one of Onkyo s new generation of THX-certified products built around high quality Burr-Brown DACs. The DTS-HD MA encoding of this recording as connected with 1.3 HDMI cables produces a variable bit rate (VBR), bit-for-bit (lossless) stream that includes 7.1 channels with sample rates of 96 kHz. Just as well the DTS-HD MA-encoded files also contain a backward-compatible DTS Digital Surround 5.1 (and 6.1) core with a bit rate of 1509 kbps. However, this review concerns itself only with 7.1 DTS-HD MA channels reproduction. The unique acoustic reality experience that his recording affords to my ears as to the musical phrasing and playing of these two very complex scorings, the orchestral presence, instrumental sections separation, high and low dynamics and instrumental solos are far superior to anything I have heard on so-called true surround recordings. We are placed at the same location that the conductor assumes in the podium, we are not part of the audience - we hear what the conductor hears. Orchestral sound is very close and all around, especially the sound coming out of the two side-surround speakers. In my mind the use of these side speakers totally redefines surround sound; this is a new experience and something to behold. --Audiophile Audition Review
Product Description
1. Wagner: Overtures & Preludes
2. Johann Strauss: The New Years Concert in Vienna
3. Anton Bruckner: Symphony Nos. 7&8
4. Tchaikovsky Overtures: Romeo and Juliet , 1812
5. Chopin: Nocturns and Preludes
6. Stravinsky: The Rite of Spring, The Card Party
7. Tchaikovsky: Piano Concertos Nos. 1&3
8. Barber Symphonies Nos. 1&2
9. Brahms: Tragic Overture , Symphony No.1
10. Ravel: Bolero
11. Bach: Orchestral Suites 1, 2, 3; Tripelkoncert
12. Rimsky-Korsakov: Scheherezade, Russian Easter Festival Overture
13. Mozart: Symphonies Nos. 40&35
14. Mahler: Symphonie No. 2 in C minor 'Resurrection'
15. Sibelius: Symphonies Nos.5&7
16. Mendelssohn: Symphonies Nos. 4'Italian' & 5'Reformation'
17. Brahms: Academic Festival Overture, Symphony No.4
18. Mussorgsky: Pictures at an Exhibition, Night on the Bare Mountain, Stokovsky Transcriptions
19. Rimsky-Korsakov: Sadko, The Snow Maden, The Tale of Tsar Saltan
20. Tchaikovsky: Suites from Swan Lake, Sleeping Beauty, The Nutkraker
21. Respighi: Pines of Rome, Fountains of Rome, The Birds
22. Shostakovich: Symphony No.7 'Leningrad'
23. Mozart: Symphonies Nos. 41'Jupiter' & 38'Prague'
24. Tchaikovsky: Symphonies Nos.5&6 'Paphetique'
25. Shostakovich: Symphonies Nos. 5 & 9
26. Beethoven: Symphonies Nos.3'Eroica' & 8
27. Mahler: Symphony No. 9
28. Mozart: REQUIEM
29. Holst: The Planets
30. Dvorak: Symphonies Nos.8&9 'From the New World'
31. Shostakovich: Symphonies Nos.2&12
32. Beethoven Symphonies Nos.4&7
33. Beethoven Symphony No.9 'Ode to Freedom'
34. Beethoven Symphonies Nos.5'Fate'&6
35. Beethoven: Symphonies Nos.1&2
36. Rachmaninoff: Symphonies Nos. 2&3
37. Rachmaninoff: Piano Concertos Nos.2&3
38. Beethoven/Mendelsohn: Violin Concertos
39. Vivaldi: The Four Seasons, Concerto for Double Orchestra
40. Vivaldi: L'estro Armonico

[Brian]

Who are the Blu-Ray performers, though?

33. Beethoven Symphony No.9 'Ode to Freedom'

...uh...

[Todd]

...uh...

[Brian]

So the Blu-Rays are from DG? I still suspect they're the Bucharest Metro Busker Orchestra or something...

[Todd]

So the Blu-Rays are from DG?

Doubtful, but this may explain where the title for the Ninth came from.

[stingo]

The page lists John Eliot Gardiner and Victoria Mullova, so that might be Disc 38.

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[stingo]

The performers Amazon lists are Russian Philharmonic, Victoria Mullova, Hovard Gimse, London Mozart Players, Alfred Brendel, Ochestra Simphonia et Romantique, Vladimir Yablonsky, Oleg Caetani, John Eliot Gardiner and David Juriz.

[Pat B]

Who cares? Isn't the important thing that the reviewer uses 1.3 HDMI to feed the Burr-Brown DACs in his new THX-certified Onkyo receiver?

[Moonfish]

Did he record no operas/vocal/choral for Columbia/Sony?

I bet there will be a Sony vol 3 next year....   

[Moonfish]

Who cares? Isn't the important thing that the reviewer uses 1.3 HDMI to feed the Burr-Brown DACs in his new THX-certified Onkyo receiver?

[Gurn Blanston]

Who cares? Isn't the important thing that the reviewer uses 1.3 HDMI to feed the Burr-Brown DACs in his new THX-certified Onkyo receiver?

I actually had a bit of a Viagra moment when I read that.... 

[jut1972]

I'm pretty sure this is dodgy, the Vivaldi looks like this Naxos disc:

http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/aw/d/B00005JJ3R?cache=7656adda7afbd3610a995e2f6aa7d405&pi=AC_SX110_SY165&qid=1406837774&sr=8-11#ref=mp_s_a_1_11

40 discs but two symphonies / concertos per disc?  That's CD sizing not bluray.

[stingo]

Well, if it turns out to be dodgy, I'll return it to Amazon - thankfully I bought directly from them and not the mp.

Edited to add: Looks like I'll be returning this one unopened. See the customer review on the link.

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Further edited to add: Contacted Amazon to redirect the package back to them. Thanks for the help with figuring this out.

[jut1972]

A real shame.  Would have loved to get some more bluray classical discs.  Glad you're not getting stung stingo!

[EigenUser]

Well, if it turns out to be dodgy, I'll return it to Amazon - thankfully I bought directly from them and not the mp.

Edited to add: Looks like I'll be returning this one unopened. See the customer review on the link.

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Further edited to add: Contacted Amazon to redirect the package back to them. Thanks for the help with figuring this out.

Haha, I love the translation "The Card Party". I assume they mean Jeu de Cartes.