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#21 · (Edited)
Florestan said:
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.
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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.
 
#22 ·
Florestan said:
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.
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I get the same message as you are and that they will email when they have a date. I'm not worried yet :p
 
#27 ·
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. :cool:
 
#28 ·
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.
 
#29 ·
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
 
#31 ·
jtbell said:
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. :cool:
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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.
 
#32 ·
The Rudolph Barshai Shostakovich symphony cycle is gone from [that site named after a South American river]! I waited too long. Oh well . . .
 
#33 · (Edited)
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?
 
#34 ·
Grizzled Ghost said:
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?
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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.
 
#35 · (Edited)
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.
 
#39 · (Edited)
It seems CD Universe is still at it, charging $9.99 for many of their mp3 "boxed sets." Not only is the Haydn complete set of string quartets by the Festetics Quartet still available, there is another version by the Schneider QRT

Beethoven sonata boxed sets are getting to be a dime -- well ten dollars anyway -- a dozen. Here's one by Peter Takacs..

A 9 disc set of Mozart Piano Concertos looks tempting.

And here's an offering of the Verdi Quartet playing (allegedly) the Complete Schubert quartets.

And that's just the on the first page. I'm thinking one needs to shop carefully with so much available. I'm starting to value my listening time and my storage space.
 
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