The Bargain Thread!

[james]

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Messiaen-Box-S ... en+edition

Lots of Messiaen for £25
17CD's of music + interview in French
Lorriod (Messian's wife is the pianist in a lot of the works)

[Diapason]

Interesting. Hardcore, but interesting

[james]

Interesting. Hardcore, but interesting

There is one CD of organ music played by the man himself !!

This is from the only review on amazon.co.uk

"...
And, to cap it all, there is Messiaen himself on the Cavalle-Coll organ at the Trinite Church in Paris, which he played regularly for over 60 years and for which his organ music was conceived. Here he plays the big cycle of Meditations sur le Mystere de la Saint Trinite from the late 60’s and plays it better than anyone else has since.
..."

I can't judge the organ playing and I already have the Jennifer Bate's version.

[Diapason]

I also have the Bate, and I admire it but never listen to it. Still, composer in action is always an attractive prospect.

[james]

"Sony Classical are excited to present their vast collection "Masterworks of the 20th Century": ten CDs filled with iconic performances of 20th-century “avant-garde” classics by Charles Ives (the ground-breaking 1968 recording of the “Concord” Sonata by pianist and Ives scholar John Kirkpatrick), Stravinsky (the great Balanchine ballet Agon, with Erich Leinsdorf conducting the Boston Symphony), Boulez (his 1973 recording of his masterpiece Le Marteau sans maître, with mezzo Yvonne Minton and the Ensemble Musique Vivante), Takemitsu (Seiji Ozawa conducting the Toronto Symphony), a disc each of works by Harry Partch and George Crumb (including his Voice of the Whale), plus other landmark compositions by Berio, Stockhausen, Nono, Cage, Babbitt, Maderna, Xenaxis, Feldman, Schuller and Del Tredici, along with the pioneering productions of the Columbia-Princeton Electronic Music Center."

10 CD's for £20

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Masterworks-20 ... 161&sr=8-1

[Seán]

This is a superb 8 cd set and is available on jpc for €19.99

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Complete Sonatas for Violin & Piano
KV 6-15, 26-31, 296, 301, 306, 372, 374a, 374b, 376-380, 394, 402-404, 454, 481, 526, 547
Artists: Rachel Podger, Gary Cooper

https://www.jpc.de/jpcng/classic/detail ... um/6046600