The Bargain Thread!

[Peter]

And (I presume you know (or own this)) the Arthur Rubinstein: The Complete Album Collection (144 cd) is also being sold at a very low price atm.
$ 122!!!! I am not sure why this set suddenly is so affordable??? Anyways, if one does not have any Rubinstein (or even if one does) it is a no-brainer, don't you think?



http://www.amazon.com/Arthur-Rubinstein ... _pr_sims_t

[Seán]

And (I presume you know (or own this)) the Arthur Rubinstein: The Complete Album Collection (144 cd) is also being sold at a very low price atm.
$ 122!!!! I am not sure why this set suddenly is so affordable??? Anyways, if one does not have any Rubinstein (or even if one does) it is a no-brainer, don't you think?

I have Rubenstein's Chopin cycle and, to my ear, it is beyond compare. I love it. I don't have that Rubenstein box set

That said, if I do decide to buy aniother large piano box set I would select the Perahia over all others, I love his music-making.

I want to get the Marcelle Meyer set too, there is so little time and so much music:

[Peter]

I want to get the Marcelle Meyer set too, there is so little time and so much music:

Yes, that is a sublime set. I especially enjoy her Rameau, Bach and Scarlatti. So many gems in that set. Definitely a desert island box!!!!
You HAVE to get that Meyer collection!

[Seán]

I want to get the Marcelle Meyer set too, there is so little time and so much music:

Yes, that is a sublime set. I especially enjoy her Rameau, Bach and Scarlatti. So many gems in that set. Definitely a desert island box!!!!
You HAVE to get that Meyer collection!

Thanks Peter, that is lovely playing. Mark Ainley on Facebook has urged me to get the set too, I must do so.

[Jared]

Possibly not a 'bargain' as such, but I just wanted to draw attention (particularly Fergus') to the release of the complete set of Gesualdo's Madrigals by Marco Longhini on Naxos... highly regarded 7CD set for £20, which will also get some serious future consideration at chez Butcher:

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Gesualdo-Comple ... +madrigals

[fergus]

Cheers Jared; I will check that one out.

[Peter]

What are your thoughts about the John Gardiner collection?

http://www.amazon.com/Eliot-Gardiner-Co ... collection


"The 30-CD box, presents the recordings in their original jackets, the 108-page booklet includes an extended interview-article with Jonathan Freeman-Attwood, Principal of the Royal Academy of Music in London, recording producer and trumpet-player.
CD 1 2
Monteverdi: Vespro della Beata Vergine
Soloists / Monteverdi Choir / English Baroque Soloists

CD 3 4
Purcell: The Fairy Queen
Soloists / Monteverdi Choir / English Baroque Soloists

CD 5 7
J. S. Bach: St. Matthew Passion
Soloists / Monteverdi Choir / English Baroque Soloists

CD 8 10
Handel: Jephtha
Soloists / Monteverdi Choir / English Baroque Soloists

CD 11 12
Gluck: Iphigenie en Tauride
Soloists / Monteverdi Choir / English Baroque Soloists

CD 13 15
Mozart: Idomeneo
Soloists / Monteverdi Choir / English Baroque Soloists

CD 16
Piano Concertos Nos. 20 & 21
Malcolm Bilson / English Baroque Soloists

CD 17 18
Haydn: Die Jahreszeiten
Soloists / Monteverdi Choir / English Baroque Soloists

CD 19 20
Beethoven: Leonore
Soloists / Monteverdi Choir / Orchestre Révolutionnaire et Romantique

CD 21
Beethoven: Missa solemnis
Soloists / Monteverdi Choir / Orchestre Révolutionnaire et Romantique

CD 22
Berlioz: Symphonie Fantastique
Monteverdi Choir / Orchestre Révolutionnaire et Romantique

CD 23 24
Schumann: Requiem für Mignon, Nachtlied, Das Paradies und die Peri
Symphony no. 4 in D minor (original version, 1841)
Soloists / Monteverdi Choir / Orchestre Révolutionnaire et Romantique


CD 25
Lehar: Die lustige Witwe
Soloists / Monteverdi Choir / Wiener Philharmoniker

CD 26
Verdi: Requiem
Organosova / con Otter / Canonici / Miles
Monteverdi Choir / Orchestre Révolutionnaire et Romantique

CD 27
Elgar: Enigma Variations, In the South op. 50, Introduction & Allegro op. 47, Sospiri op. 70
Keuschnig / Küchl-Quartett / Wiener Philharmoniker

CD 28
Grainger: Danny Boy
Songs and Dancing Ballads by Percy Grainger
Monteverdi Choir & Orchestra

CD 29
Weill: Die sieben Todessünde; Songs
Anne Sofie von Otter / Bengt Forsberg / NDR-Sinfonieorchester

CD 30
Stravinsky: Symphony of Psalms / Boulanger: Psalms
Monteverdi Choir / London Symphony Orchestra"

[Jared]

well, it's certainly eclectic! it's also excellent value! Ideal for someone who has very few of his performances, but I suspect most of us here have quite a number from this set, anyway...

[fergus]

What are your thoughts about the John Gardiner collection?

http://www.amazon.com/Eliot-Gardiner-Co ... collection

Total and complete bias precludes me from any other comment other than a purchase recommendation LOL!!

[Peter]

What are your thoughts about the John Gardiner collection?

http://www.amazon.com/Eliot-Gardiner-Co ... collection

Total and complete bias precludes me from any other comment other than a purchase recommendation LOL!!

Somehow I expected that response from you!!! lol