The Super-Duper Cheap Bargains Thread

[Octave]

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MASTERWORKS HERITAGE COLLECTION (Sony, 28cd)

Getting close to $29+shipping from Amazon US-MP.  A bit cheaper than I've ever seen it.
This time I am posting before order rather than after.  I will probably regret it!

My overlap neurosis gets a workout from sets like this, and I am not even a veteran collector.  Loads of great stuff, but I imagine that I'll be re-purchasing a chunk of it in other sets (Szell edition, maybe a fantasy Ormandy box, etc). 

[Moonfish]

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MASTERWORKS HERITAGE COLLECTION (Sony, 28cd)

Getting close to $29+shipping from Amazon US-MP.  A bit cheaper than I've ever seen it.
This time I am posting before order rather than after.  I will probably regret it!

My overlap neurosis gets a workout from sets like this, and I am not even a veteran collector.  Loads of great stuff, but I imagine that I'll be re-purchasing a chunk of it in other sets (Szell edition, maybe a fantasy Ormandy box, etc).

That is an incredible deal, Octave!  Makes me think that I should wait with jumping on these sets.     It is just hard to know which ones that will sell out or be OOP. Seemingly some of these return (e.g. the re-release of the RCA Heifetz and Rubinstein boxes) while others are just gone gone gone (e.g. the Gould set).  The MHC is definitely highly recommended as far as I am concerned.

[Ken B]

Nice! Thanks Ken! 
Are those in the "big" Heifetz box as well?

I don't know, as I only have a small Heifetz boxes. One disc is in the Living Stereo.

[Ken B]

That is an incredible deal, Octave!  Makes me think that I should wait with jumping on these sets.     It is just hard to know which ones that will sell out or be OOP. Seemingly some of these return (e.g. the re-release of the RCA Heifetz and Rubinstein boxes) while others are just gone gone gone (e.g. the Gould set).  The MHC is definitely highly recommended as far as I am concerned.

Some go up, some go down. 
The BIG Ma box is down to $112 now.
I keep waiting on the Erato 50 box to go down. No sign of it yet.

[Brian]

The Vivarte box looks like a crazy good bargain now, but I'm just too poor and it's not in my budget.

[Ken B]

The Vivarte box looks like a crazy good bargain now, but I'm just too poor and it's not in my budget.

It passes the so good it would be silly not to buy it though ...  It's $49!!!!!

[mc ukrneal]

It passes the so good it would be silly not to buy it though ...  It's $49!!!!!

Actually, all in, it's $53. It also comes from the UK, and the sellers selling it usually take about 4-6 weeks in my experience (range from two weeks (once) to 2.5 months (once).

[kishnevi]

And how much of it is in those Sony/Vivarte small budget sets I already have?
ETA: counted the listing in an Amazon review.  26, and while some of the ones I don't have do interest me, a large number don't have me panting in lust.

[Moonfish]

Actually, all in, it's $53. It also comes from the UK, and the sellers selling it usually take about 4-6 weeks in my experience (range from two weeks (once) to 2.5 months (once).

My experience is about 2-3 weeks (with an occasional 4 weeks) and I buy a fair amount from the UK MP sellers.  Sometimes I get a 4 week deal from a US MP seller.   

[Moonfish]

And how much of it is in those Sony/Vivarte small budget sets I already have?
ETA: counted the listing in an Amazon review.  26, and while some of the ones I don't have do interest me, a large number don't have me panting in lust.

True! No point in purchasing if one already have the bulk of the recordings. Errr... makes a great gift though!!      Christmas is only six months away!!!!! 

[The new erato]

That is an incredible deal, Octave!  Makes me think that I should wait with jumping on these sets.     It is just hard to know which ones that will sell out or be OOP. Seemingly some of these return (e.g. the re-release of the RCA Heifetz and Rubinstein boxes) while others are just gone gone gone (e.g. the Gould set).  The MHC is definitely highly recommended as far as I am concerned.

The big Gould Bach set is listed as a reissue sometime in July/august on the jpc.de site.

[Moonfish]

The big Gould Bach set is listed as a reissue sometime in July/august on the jpc.de site.

Do you have a link to that set?
I presume you are referring to the Complete Bach Collection?  June 26 and for only 89 Euros!!!! Nice!
http://www.jpc.de/jpcng/classic/detail/-/art/Johann-Sebastian-Bach-1685-1750-Glenn-Gould-Bach-Edition/hnum/2750965
I was thinking about the big Gould box from some years ago. Is that one being released as well?

[The new erato]

Do you have a link to that set?
I presume you are referring to the Complete Bach Collection?  June 26 and for only 89 Euros!!!! Nice!
http://www.jpc.de/jpcng/classic/detail/-/art/Johann-Sebastian-Bach-1685-1750-Glenn-Gould-Bach-Edition/hnum/2750965
I was thinking about the big Gould box from some years ago. Is that one being released as well?

I don't know about the BIG set, I was referring o the Bach box that was OOP a year ago, and which I missed. Anyway, that is the Gould set I'm interested in, so I was very excited to see it reissued. It will be ordered when I'm back from my Spain vacation.

[Moonfish]

I don't know about the BIG set, I was referring o the Bach box that was OOP a year ago, and which I missed. Anyway, that is the Gould set I'm interested in, so I was very excited to see it reissued. It will be ordered when I'm back from my Spain vacation.

Yes, I am glad they are reissuing the Gould Bach set! Thanks for letting us all know!   

[king ubu]

Got the Vivarte and Masterworks boxes for similarly good prices (I think around 40 and 20 €, respectively) .... wasn't at all sure whether or not to get the Vivarte, less because of overlap (mostly what's duplicated between it and the Van Nevel box - which alas isn't quite complete as far as Huelgas/Van Nevel on Vivarte goes), but because there's some stuff in it that just isn't really all that attractive to me. But what I've heard so far was mostly pretty good, some of effin' great. And there's lots of music in there that I might not have encountered at all or only many years down the road, if not for that box!

The Masterworks Heritage was more of a no-brainer. Duplication was limited to the (great!) Francescatti double set and the Dvorák symphonies of Szell's, as well as the Fleisher Brahms concertos, but I wanted the Beethoven quartets and some other things in the box and it was so cheap.

Happily, both come with good booklets - english notes only, whilst the original releases would have had translations, but that's more than okay, of course. Some of the notes in the Vivarte set are indeed very good, I found, as often with musicians indulging in this old stuff, they're almost scientific/historical, and I like that!

Another deal I just stumbled over, seems almost too good to be true:



Leonard Bernstein - The Symphony Edition - € 53.90 @ amazon.it

I guess I'll have to go for that ... any opinions? Don't think I've read much about it anywhere, but this is most tempting!

[The new erato]

Except for the stupid format that is a fine set which in addition to the standard repertoire contains lots of works that are not exactly overrepresented in the catalogue, many in reference performances.

[king ubu]

Stupid format? It's the same as the other LP-sized boxes, isn't it? That, for me, isn't a stupid format at all, I have many sets that size (and some LPs, too, never yet tried to fold them into CD shelves  ). I've got the Walter box and find it quite wonderful - also, opposed to others (Toscanini, Rubinstein) it also comes with a substantial essay. And frankly I think the Rubinstein is the dumbest in format - also in respect of the huge, wonderful book consisting mostly of half-empty pages presenting contents, instead of boosting some real content itself. (Still, I love the Rubinstein - it might be my top favourite of those huge boxes, actually.)

[The new erato]

Well; if you store it vertically, lots of the disc slides to the bottom and fall out if you open it without regard to that. And if you store it lying down it is extremely hard to locate the discs you want and put them back in proper order. And it doesn't fit shelving made for CDs either. It doesn't come stupider than that in my world. 

[king ubu]

Well; if you store it vertically, lots of the disc slides to the bottom and fall out if you open it without regard to that. And if you store it lying down it is extremely hard to locate the discs you want and put them back in proper order. And it doesn't fit shelving made for CDs either. It doesn't come stupider than that in my world.

Okay, that is true of course ... the Walter is stored lying on my desk these days though, so I didn't think about that! I've got no proper CD shelves though, so shelving isn't an issue here (it's never ideal anyways) and I have many LP-sized CD boxes (of Jazz recordings) - but no space left anywhere 

[Moonfish]

Okay, that is true of course ... the Walter is stored lying on my desk these days though, so I didn't think about that! I've got no proper CD shelves though, so shelving isn't an issue here (it's never ideal anyways) and I have many LP-sized CD boxes (of Jazz recordings) - but no space left anywhere 

I dream about more space....