I was going through many of my box sets last weekend, many now are oop and high valued where you see them for sale online. It led me wondering what's the most You have paid for an individual issue, wether singular, double, box set or huge sets such as Bach Editions, Heifetz Edition (first time round), original Stravinsky Editions, high value Ring Cycles at the time etc. There's loads and loads...
Believe it or not, my highest value purchase was the Petterson Symphonies about 8 years ago for around £65. I've never beaten that price for a new issue. I got my first Ring Cycles when the prices dipped and seldom now have to pay over the odds for great music. I guess its all these 'paper' sleeves & 'space savers' which lower the price and give us the value ;)
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Probably the highest value collectable 'as they come as they are issued' I bought was the MTT Mahler Cycle. Most of which were under £10, with possibly the 9th I had to break the £15 mark.
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Keilberth's stereo Ring, when first it was released, set me back about $250. I've dropped that much on a couple LvB sonata cycles from Japan, as well, though they were comprised of individual issues. It's definitely cheaper to place big orders when importing from Japan. The most for a single disc was around $30 for an LvB disc I imported from Norway.
Box set-- $200 for the Angeles Q Haydn SQ set.
Individual work-- $30 for a Mahler symphony, I've done this several times.
I couldn't possibly remember.
Variation on a theme (http://www.good-music-guide.com/community/index.php/topic,1448.0.html)? :)
Nice catch, Nav!
Mozart Symphonies / Hogwood - $155
Haydn Big Box / Brilliant - $155
And I would do it again. :)
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I would never have bought this, not being a huge Mozart fan. I actually won it last year in a BBC Music Mag competition.
At £120 ? Not likely. It did however, fill up a huge Mozart gap (many cds I would never have explored).
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Karajan's Götterdämmerung cost me almost 60 €
Quote from: Gurnatron5500 on May 22, 2012, 12:00:29 PM
Mozart Symphonies / Hogwood - $155
Haydn Big Box / Brilliant - $155
And I would do it again. :)
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I'll send my address to you by PM. 0:)
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$55 for the Complete Organ Works of Messiaen played by Latry (5 discs)
$17 for Bruckner's Symphony No. 9 conducted by Harnoncourt
I have paid over $20 per CD only a few times. I believe that include Alkan and Sorabji
I paid $150 for a sealed copy of this Bach SACD! :o
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Not much. Paid around 25 euros for only 2 or 3 single/double CDs: Michelangeli Tokyo recital on Tokyo FM, Rubinstein's second recording of Chopin Mazurkas (Rubinstein Collection Vol.27) and Savall's Monteverdi Vespers (in its first release on Astree), nothing else as I can remember. Don't buy many boxes, don't think I ever paid more than 50 euros for a box.
edit: That same above mentioned Michelangeli Tokyo recital which I bought from Japan some five years ago today would cost bit under 40 euros :o at current yen/euro exchange rate! Haven't bought anything from Japan in years for the same reason.
100 euros delivered for the 170 CD Mozart boxset on Brilliant Classics. This is also one of the best classical music purchases i have made.
The second most expensive (63 euros) was Handel's Susanna (McGegan) 3 CD set on Harmonia Mundi.
In modern times:
Around £130 for the Hyperion Schubert song Edition + P&P and VAT on import to Norway; around £ 160 all in all.
In the bad old days (when CDs were really expensive):
Around £ 340 for the Leonhardt/Harnoncourt Bach Cantata Edition.
Well, I assumed the question meant ony for the most expensive per disc rather than the most you have paid for a set.
From the thread title one would assume so, but the first post effectively tells us differently. I've never paid more than list price for an individual disc (around £ 10- 12).
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A testimonial!
I am sure for most people here, this forum has cost more than it saved, but I don't think too many people are complaining. Otherwise some of our most valued members would be under police protection by now.
I think I paid about $35 for this disc with Claudio Abbado and the Chamber Orchestra of Europe. It's out of print, so I didn't think it was unreasonable.
Sciarrino: Autoritratto nella notte (1982)
Ligeti: Six Bagatelles (for winds) (1953)
Ligeti: Concerto for Flute, Oboe and Strings (1972)
Schoenberg: Chamber Symphony No. 1 (1906)
(Link leads to the disc on Amazon but doesn't show the cover, which is attached.)
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Most likely the Bax Symphonies/Thomson, almost at full price, and the Haydn Symphonies/Fischer on Brilliant.
Due to a lot of cheap LP buying & being very price-conscious, the average price per CD/LP is probably around 2 €, however.