Thanks for the head's up. Ordered.

 

So you're saying the Accountants at Brilliant aint to brilliant?
Schnabel's complete set of Beethoven Sonatas available as an mp3 for $5. Considering the age of the recordings, mp3 sound is perfectly acceptable, in fact I have the CD issue from Pearl but I can't detect any real difference when I stream the mp3 from my phone to the blue tooth dac of my regular rig.
Krips/LSO cycle of the Symphonies also available as a $5 mp3, or the CDs can be obtained new or used for about $10 total.

 

I think there is another thread somewhere about Amazon bargains, but too buried in history maybe. I've noticed Amazon bargains are ephemeral anyway and all my $3.99 - $6.99 bookmarks lead to full price albums now.

The Festetics Quartet Complete Haydn Quartets mp3 download is still $9.99 at CD Universe. I bought it quite some time ago and may never get around to exploring the whole gargantuan thing. The site has a lot of other bargains too, mostly boxed sets of lesser known works.

 

The Festetics Quartet Complete Haydn Quartets mp3 download is still $9.99 at CD Universe. I bought it quite some time ago and may never get around to exploring the whole gargantuan thing. The site has a lot of other bargains too, mostly boxed sets of lesser known works.

The Festetics set is a great bargain, with a very HIP approach. Or, another complete set of the Haydn quartets in very good performances, using modern instruments, for three bucks!

http://www.amazon.com/Haydn-Complet...DOGKQ/ref=sr_1_1?s=dmusic&ie=UTF8&qid=1440442220&sr=1-1&keywords=haydn+quartets

 

Note that the Brilliant "complete Beethoven" box of 85 CDs was initially advertised at $29.95, an error quickly corrected. But those of us who ordered at that price got it. The box is currently $120. Just sayin'.
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Last year my son and I both got 87 CD Complete Beethoven sets for $29.95 from a seller who noted they were essentially new but with damaged boxes. The damage was pretty minimal.

 

And this year my son and ordered the Brilliant box of 65 Handel CDs for $20.99. We combined our orders and got free shipping (on orders $35+) too!

Thanks for the tip Ken!

 

Thanks. Ordered. Even with shipping it's cheap.

 

I think the labels deliberately cut the price just before a box set comes out. It serves two purposes... first, the preorders get them some money back quickly to cover the disk run, and secondly it gets them on the Amazon top 100 sales list. Once they are on the top sales list, the price goes to normal and everyone thinks its a great set, not just a cheap set.

 

Contents are on the Brilliant site, but not performers.

The site does say ". . . Concerto Köln, Neues Bachisches Collegium Musicum, English Chamber Orchestra, King's College Choir and many others." Here's a link for those needing it. I had a little trouble getting to it.

I may order it for the anthems and operas I don't have, but do I really need 65 CDs worth of Handel? Will I ever listen to all of it?

 

Naming those ensembles seals it for me. I'm pre-ordering now!

 

Its quite likely they´ll re-use material from the earlier 40 CD Haendel edition, which I own:
http://www.musicweb-international.com/classrev/2002/Jun02/Handel_complete_Brilliant.htm

Lots of good recordings there. The op.3 and op.6 are Rolla´s, not Pommer´s.

 

track list etc:
http://www.europadisc.co.uk/classical/122764/Handel_Edition.htm
https://www.jpc.de/jpcng/classic/detail/-/art/edition-box/hnum/7697204
(mp3 samples for many tracks)

 

I'll kick off with this possibly mispriced Brilliant box of 65 Handel CDs for $20.99

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I don't normally go for baroque, so I will pass. But I was wondering, is there an Amazon page showing upcoming releases and pre-order (I searched, with no luck), or is it a case of catch as catch can during your normal browsing?

 

You can go to the CDs and Vinyl section of Amazon, then click the Classical genre on the left side, then click into the Coming Soon area under the Featured heading. You can filter the list of (currently) 771 CDs by era, genre, artist, format, and a few other options. You can also sort by price.

Unfortunately, I do not know of a way to spot what has been most recently added or discounted on Amazon. Camelcamelcamel is a good way to analyze pricing trends on specific releases.

 

Thanks, bharbeke. :tiphat:

 

I find the bargains hit the classical top 100 very fast. Good to check that.

 

I'll kick off with this possibly mispriced Brilliant box of 65 Handel CDs for $20.99 (in the US anyway).

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0106UFMP6/ref=cm_cd_asin_lnk

Yikes, it is now $81.77!

 

Up to $104 on Amazon, as of 2019.

 

So, has anybody actually received the set for the $20.99. I believe its release date was 21 August and mine has not come. The item in my Amazon purchases says it is waiting for more information in order to provide an estimated delivery date.

 

Not yet, but it's got a long way to come. The one review talks of "demand overwhelming supply". That's also got a track listing.

 

Not yet, but I remember the Dvorak symphonies set was delayed a bit on delivery too.

 

Am I missing something? 10 USD?

 

Bought it - 10 disks for 10 bucks!

 

Read this thread with total dismay!
Muffled Process abortive attempt number 3 is 'never' acceptable.
Oh, wait, there's talking books, just maybe........

 

Read the comments on the one review of this set. LINK

 

My Amazon account still shows the delivery date of the Handel box as "We need a little more time to provide you with a good estimate." However, the price is now $19.99 instead of $20.99.

 

If you have e-mail from Amazon delivered to an address that you don't check routinely (as I do), be aware that if you ordered the Handel box at the cheap price, you need to confirm your order. Just log on to your Amazon account and look up your orders. You'll see a message and a button to click. The deadline for confirmation was October 26 for me, I think.

 

I ordered them from Amazon for $19.99. When I called their customer service line today, they said they have no shipping date yet but promiused to honor the $19.99 price on my order when the set is shipped.

 

Naxos Essential Masses Vol. 1 (23-disc) & Vol. 2 (19-disc) - 320kbps mp3 download for $5.99 each at Google Play store.

Essential Masses, Vol. 1 - Early Music, Renaissance, Baroque
https://play.google.com/store/music...sic/album/Various_Artists_Essential_Masses_Vol_1?id=B2wrbohhgu2i5abx76hh4y2zcdy
Anonymous / Bach, Johann Sebastian / Byrd, William / Carissimi, Giacomo / Charpentier, Marc-Antoine / Couperin, Francois / La Rue, Pierre de / Lasso, Orlando di / Lobo, Alonso / Machaut, Guillaume de / Merulo, Claudio / Palestrina, Giovanni Pierluigi da / Tallis, Thomas / Victoria, Tomas Luis de

Essential Masses, Vol. 2 - Classical, Romantic, 20th Century
https://play.google.com/store/music...usic/album/Jubilant_Sykes_Essential_Masses_Vol_2?id=Bs7lotz54b4fj3akm4woixkpsua
Beethoven, Ludwig van / Bernstein, Leonard / Dickinson, Peter / Durufle, Maurice / Gossec, Francois-Joseph / Haydn, Franz Joseph / Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus / Part, Arvo / Ramirez, Ariel / Ropartz, Joseph-Guy / Rutter, John / Ryba, Jakub Jan / Schubert, Franz / Stravinsky, Igor / Traditional / Vaughan Williams, Ralph

I haven't checked all yet, but it seems that each disc had been previously released as a single disc from Naxos. For example, disc 15 of vol. 1 looks identical to this.

Machaut: La Messe De Nostre Dame; Songs from Le Voir Dit - Oxford Camerata / Jeremy Summerly
http://www.amazon.com/Machaut-Messe-Nostre-Dame-Songs/dp/B0000014AN

 

This is an incredible price. It's $104 to download from Amazon. I think you are correct that all these pieces were released an individual CDs; Naxos is not selling the Collections as a Box CD set. Thanks for the tip!

 

The Rudolph Barshai Shostakovich symphony cycle is gone from [that site named after a South American river]! I waited too long. Oh well . . .

 

The website us...7digital...com often mis-prices multi-album downloads as if they were single albums. I've seem some real bargains there as a result. 320 kbps by the way, either mp3 or m4a.

The latest discovery - Stewart Goodyear's complete LvB Piano Sonatas for just $10.49. Compare that to $60 on iTunes and $54 to $57 on amazon.

I already have Schiff's traversal and I'm not keen on doubling up on music, but the Goodyear approach seems quite intelligent and interesting. Tempted....

Would anyone care to twist my arm?

 

The website us...7digital...com often mis-prices multi-album downloads as if they were single albums. I've seem some real bargains there as a result. 320 kbps by the way, either mp3 or m4a.

The latest discovery - Stewart Goodyear's complete LvB Piano Sonatas for just $10.49. Compare that to $60 on iTunes and $54 to $57 on amazon.

Would anyone care to twist my arm?

Didn't take much arm twisting for me. That's a 10 CD set for $10.49. Just purchased and downloaded (1.41gb!). Now to find time to listen . . .

Thanks for posting this GG.

 

For Europe, the Beethoven-Goodyear price is € 8.99, sign-up and download very easy.

MP3 files amount to 1.34 GB. Recommended.

Some of their other offers:
Ohlsson´s complete Beethoven Sonatas € 10.49
Jablonski´s complete Prokofiev sonatas € 10.49
Ashkenazy´s complete Prokofiev symphonies €10.49
Shostakovich complete quartets / Shostakovich4 € 8.99

+ Cras complete piano music; Nielsen quartets with the excellent Danish String Quartet; Boccherini´s Cello Concertos with Geringas, etc.

 

It´s here:
https://us.7digital.com/search?q=stewart goodyear&src=live-search

 

Great. Thanks!