The booklet in the original box was in three languages: English, German and French. I would expect that to be the case for the re-issue.
The excellent packing material used by jpc looks like styrofoam but is made from starch, which means that it's eco-friendly and simply melts away under warm water.
I know, but Amazon Spain's shipping charges to the US are higher than other Amazon European sites. That puts the price up to $88.75 after shipping. The thing is that I had terrible experiences in the past with Amazon Spain. For me, ten bucks in order to avoid those problems is well worth it.
eBay has a 15% off coupon today, and I used it to get the Bernstein complete DG box for about $340 new. Looking forward to more Bernstein than ever.
I'm not going to say what I picked up the last time they ran a coupon because I'm enjoying it but still feel stupid owning it. These eBay coupons are dangerous!
I really wanted the BD-A of the Beethoven Symphonies. Including all the Unitel DVDs was the kicker, I don't think I would have gone for it otherwise. And I can sell the DVDs I already have. Or so I tell myself.
Just thought I would do a shout out to Rarewaves on eBay. Bought the Karajan Symphony Edition 38CD set for $52, shipped July 4th from the U.K. and got it yesterday!! So, not only is that a great price as the $52 included shipping but it got here to the Olympia area of Washington state in less than a week, bloody marvelous
Oh, I'm not questioning your pickup. I think I'm just starting to become aware of exactly how much music my "mega box" habit is landing in my collection and it's making me self-conscious! Incidentally, I have that Bernstein DG set and I've really enjoyed everything I've heard or watched so far. My only gripe is that DG seems to LOVE leaving you with no choice but to pull out handfuls of discs to get to the one you want. Is it so much to ask that upward-facing spines be built in to the disc envelopes?
For those still on the fence about the forthcoming Bernstein Vocal box on Sony, the price at Amazon.de just went down to €79.99, a price that will be hard to beat: https://www.amazon.de/gp/product/B07CRT9WMN/ref=oh_aui_detailpage_o02_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1.
I am happily listening through the "Legendary Soviet Recordings" box along with the RCO Radio Legacy box. There is a wealth of wonderful music in these boxes. If you are not familiar with them-check them out.
Just another heads-up to the George Szell box-set pre-order crew: Target.com has it listed for $158 and has a number of promos that are currently stacking. There's a $20 off $50 promo -- you have to use your phone and text LKWKGK to TARGET (827438). After getting the code (you input it on the website), that would bring it down to $138 and tax....however, there are additional 15% off promos that will bring it down even further (you can text ptwyy3, ptwxx3, Lkwgkg, ptwyyt, ptwxx4 and lkwkgl to the same number for those). Each code you get is unique to your phone and can be used once, but as of this late hour, they all stack. Whether they are going to honor orders using all those codes -- who knows -- but may be worth a shot. But if all else fails, the $20 off promo alone would give you the best price ($138 plus tax).
Target's text response to the $20 off promo and all the 15% discounts, "This program has been canceled."
Yes looks like it got heavily exploited by folks buying video game consoles. They havent canceled my $91 Szell preorder so I will just cross my fingers...I probably have a better shot of this slipping through the cracks than a Nintendo Switch!
Thanks a million for the heads-up, Andy...I caved and got several sets I've been wanting, and I think it's going to work out: Arrau/Philips-etc, Solti/CSO, Munch, and the Szell. Really appreciate that. I can't remember if I've seen this one mentioned in this thread: a Blu-Ray Audio (but no CDs) set of Karl Richter's Bach cantatas, a companion to the CD/Blu-Ray "Sacred Works" set. From Blu-Ray Forum user "Mezzanine": From user "bigshot":
Several DG sets are 40-46 Euros for Prime Day at Amazon.de (Originals 1 & 2, 111 The Conductors). Says its a Prime offer only for German members, but I was able to checkout and use a USA address (I ordered another item along with them) after signing up for the 30 day free Prime trial. Will see if it ships but if you are in Germany at least its a good deal.
It should work. I live in Sweden and they have already posted the Complete Amadeus Quartet (€70), together with the Super Deluxe edition of R.E.M.'s Automatic for the People (€40). They must be running low, though, for they sent it from France rather than Germany.
There are several Amazon distribution centers in various European countries and they are used by all European Amazon stores, so getting an order placed at Amazon Germany from an Amazon center in France is not unusual.
I was wondering if anyone had seen a listing of contents for the upcoming DG 120 year box. I have the 111 combined( parts 1 and 2) box set and I am assuming there will be a lot of duplication. DG is promising a wealth of rarities in the 120 box so, of course, the question arises-how many rarities, how many duplicates and is it worth it to buy another big DG label box?
120 Years of Deutsche Grammophon: The Anniversary Edition | CD + Blu-ray Audio | Deutsche Grammophon 4835268 The story of Deutsche Grammophon goes back as far as the birth of recording itself. Founded in June 1898, in Hanover its directors are Emile Berliner – inventor of both the disc and the player – and his brother Joseph. By 1900, Berliner’s disc has eclipsed Edison’s cylinder as the industry standard. In 1910, DG markets the earliest orchestral recording: the opening movement of Grieg’s Piano Concerto with Wilhelm Backhaus. By the time of Joseph Berliner’s death in 1928 and Emile’s the following year, DG’s annual production has reached nearly 10 million records, with the Hanover factory employing some 600 people. In 1950 78-rpm records with up to nine minutes playing time per side are introduced, based on the DG invention of variable groove spacing, and the next year the company releases its first 33-rpm long-playing records. In 1957, Deutsche Grammophon’s trademark “cartouche” is introduced. 1962 heralds the first stereo recording: the Beethoven Symphony Cycle with Karajan. DG produces the first digital recording in 1979 (Tchaikovsky’s Violin Concerto with Gidon Kremer and the Berliner Philharmoniker conducted by Lorin Maazel) and three years later sees the introduction of the CD and the first Deutsche Grammophon title in mass production: Richard Strauss’s Eine Alpensinfonie with the Berliner Philharmoniker conducted by Herbert von Karajan. Since its foundation Deutsche Grammophon has always been a pioneer in the use of new technology but it is during this decade where digital technology is on a level to move beyond familiar audio and video products, and as we consume more and more music through streaming platforms the shifting landscape has presented new opportunities for Deutsche Grammophon. The history of recorded classical music is the history of Deutsche Grammophon; and since the label has always been at the forefront of innovations and home to the world’s greatest performers it remains the future of classical music. Deutsche Grammophon is classical music. Deutsche Grammophon’s unrivaled roster is divided in 12 Chapters representing the essential genres within DG’s recording activities. Many genres include new compilation albums bringing together very rare early recordings including many released internationally for the first time and several recordings newly digitised from historic shellac discs: • Orchestral (27 CDs) • Concertos (22 CDs) • Piano Solo (17 CDs) • Chamber Music (11 CDs) • Opera (11 CDs) • Oratorio & Sacred (5 CDs) • Lied (8 CDs) • Archiv Produktion (6 CDs) • Polydor & Light Music (3 CDs) • Avant-garde (4 CDs) • Neoclassical (3 CDs) • Spoken Word (3 CDs) 120 CDs telling the story of the Yellow Label, sub-divided by genre and including many recordings released internationally for the first time and recordings newly digitised from historic shellac discs 1 Bonus CD with brand-new unreleased recordings “The years to come” (including Daniil Trifonov) 1 Blu-ray Audio featuring the complete Ring des Nibelungen conducted by Herbert von Karajan Each album presented in spined wallets with original sleeve art 200-page book (in E/F/G) with extensive documentation including: 1. Introduction by Richard Evidon 2. 4 substantial essays about DG’s history: The Early Years, The Golden 50s, The Star Years, The Future 3. 12 shorter essays about every genre 4. Numerous photographs and facsimiles from the archives of Deutsche Grammophon Includes six postcards with legendary covers plus 5 historic documents Contents: CD 1 Early Orchestral Recordings I - Arthur Nikisch / Alfred Hertz CD 2 Early Orchestral Recordings II - Erich Kleiber, Otto Klemperer, Richard Strauss, Bruno Walter CD 3 Early Orchestral Recordings III - Wilhelm Furtwängler, Victor de Sabata, Jascha Horenstein, Alois Melichar, Hans Pfitzner CD 4 Early Orchestral Recordings IV - Max Fiedler, Hidemaro Konoye, Herbert von Karajan, R Strauss, Paul van Kempen CD 5 Schubert - Symphony no.9 Haydn - Symphony no.88 - Furtwängler CD 6 Bruckner - Symphony no.9 - Eugen Jochum CD 7 Dvořák - Symphony no.9 Smetana - Vltava Liszt - Les Préludes - Ferenc Fricsay CD 8 Tchaikovsky - Symphony no.6 “Pathétique” - Evgeny Mravinsky CD 9 Mozart - Symphonies nos. 39-41 - Karl Böhm CD 10 Berlioz - Symphonie fantastique Cherubini - Anacréon Overture - Igor Markevich CD 11 Beethoven - Symphony no.9, Coriolan Overture - Karajan CD 12 Mahler - Symphony no.1, Lieder eines fahrenden Gesellen - Rafael Kubelík CD 13 Holst - The Planets R Strauss - Also sprach Zarathustra - William Steinberg CD 14 Beethoven - Symphonies nos. 5 & 7 - Carlos Kleiber CD 15 Saint-Saëns - Symphony no.3 "Organ Symphony" - Daniel Barenboim CD 16 Debussy - La Mer Ravel - Ma mère l'Oye, Rapsodie espagnole - Carlo Maria Giulini CD 17 R Strauss - Eine Alpensinfonie - Karajan CD 18 Mahler - Symphony no.5 - Leonard Bernstein CD 19 Copland - Appalachian Spring - Orpheus Chamber Orchestra CD 20 Messiaen - Turangalîla-Symphonie - Myung-whun Chung CD 21 Stravinsky - Le Sacre du printemps, Pétrouchka - Pierre Boulez CD 22 Franck - Symphony in D minor Poulenc - Organ Concerto - Seiji Ozawa CD 23 Wagner - Orchestral Music - Claudio Abbado CD 24 German Overtures - Christian Thielemann CD 25 Mussorgsky - Pictures at an Exhibition - Gustavo Dudamel CD 26 Mendelssohn - Symphonies nos. 4 & 5 - Yannick Nézet-Séguin CD 27 Bruckner - Symphony no.4 “Romantic” - Andris Nelsons CD 28 Early Concerto Recordings CD 29 Rachmaninov - Piano Concerto no.2 Tchaikovsky - Piano Concerto no.1 - Sviatoslav Richter CD 30 Saint-Saëns - Cello Concerto no.1 Lalo - Cello Concerto in D minor - Pierre Fournier CD 31 Bach - Violin Concertos Beethoven - Romances - David Oistrakh CD 32 Mozart - Violin Concertos nos. 1 & 2 - Wolfgang Schneiderhan CD 33 Tchaikovsky - Violin Concerto in D major Mendelssohn - Violin Concerto in E minor - Nathan Milstein CD 34 Mozart - Piano Concertos nos. 20 & 21 - Friedrich Gulda CD 35 Boccherini, Tartini, Vivaldi - Cello Concertos - Mstislav Rostropovich CD 36 Beethoven - Piano Concertos nos. 1 & 3 - Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli CD 37 Brahms - Piano Concerto no.1 - Maurizio Pollini / Karl Böhm CD 38 Dvořák - Cello Concerto in B minor Schumann - Cello Concerto in A minor - Mischa Maisky CD 39 Liszt - Piano Concertos nos. 1 & 2, Totentanz - Krystian Zimerman CD 40 Mozart - Clarinet Concerto in A major, K622 - Charles Neidich CD 41 Prokofiev - Piano Concertos nos. 1 & 3 - Kissin CD 42 Shostakovich - Piano Concerto no.1, op.35 Haydn - Piano Concerto in D major, Hob. XVIII/11 - Martha Argerich CD 43 Brahms - Violin Concerto in D major Schumann - Fantasy for Violin: fourth movement - Anne-Sophie Mutter CD 44 Beethoven - Chorfantasie Pärt - Credo Corigliano - Fantasia on an Ostinato - Hélène Grimaud CD 45 “Echoes of time” Shostakovich - Violin Concerto no.1 Pärt - Spiegel im Spiegel - Lisa Batiashvili, HélèneGrimaud CD 46 Rachmaninov - Piano Concerto no.3 Prokofiev - Piano Concerto no.2 - Yuja Wang CD 47 Vieuxtemps - Violin Concerto no.4 Mozart - Violin Concerto no.5 - Hilary Hahn CD 48 Lost and Found (Concertos) - Albrecht Mayer CD 49 Chopin - Piano Sonata no.1, Ballades - Seong-Jin Cho CD 50 Early Solo Piano Recordings CD 51 Ravel, Bartók - Monique Haas CD 52 Beethoven - Piano Sonatas: Pathétique, Moonlight, Appassionata, Op.110 - Elly Ney CD 53 Schubert - Moments musicaux D780, Impromptus D899 & D935 - Wilhelm Kempff CD 54 Debussy - Images 1 & 2 - Michelangeli CD 55 Stravinsky, Prokofiev, Webern - Pollini CD 56 Beethoven - Piano Sonatas: Tempest, Waldstein, Les Adieux - Emil Gilels CD 57 Brahms - Variations and Fugue on a Theme by Handel - Barenboim CD 58 Brahms - Ungarische Tänze, Waltzes op.39 - Aloys & Alfons Kontarsky CD 59 Chopin - Piano Sonatas nos. 2 & 3, Scherzo in C sharp minor - Martha Argerich CD 60 Ravel, Prokofiev - Ivo Pogorelich CD 61 “Horowitz the Poet” Schumann, Schubert - Vladimir Horowitz CD 62 Mozart - C minor Fantasia, Piano Sonatas K331 & K457 - Maria João Pires CD 63 Carnegie Hall Recital - Lang Lang CD 64 Carnegie Hall Recital - Daniil Trifonov CD 65 Bach - French Suites BWV812-814 - Murray Perahia CD 66 Schubert - Impromptus D899, Klavierstücke D946 - Grigory Sokolov CD 67 Early Chamber Music Recordings CD 68 Schubert - Der Tod und das Mädchen, Forellenquintett - Koeckert Quartet CD 69 Haydn - “Emperor” Quartet Mozart - “Hunt” Quartet - Amadeus Quartet CD 70 Mozart, Debussy, Ibert, Berio - Aurèle Nicolet CD 71 Brahms - String Quartets nos. 1 & 3 Haydn - String Quartet op.76 no.4 (unreleased) - Melos Quartet CD 72 Schoenberg - Verklärte Nacht, Streichtrio - LaSalle Quartet CD 73 Debussy, Ravel, Webern - String Quartets - Hagen Quartet CD 74 Beethoven - Rasumovsky Quartet no.3, Harp Quartet, Quartetto Serioso - Emerson Quartet CD 75 Brahms - Piano Quartet no.1 Schumann - Fantasiestücke - Maisky, Argerich, Kremer, Bashmet CD 76 Mozart - Piano Trios - Mutter, Previn, Müller-Schott CD 77 Mendelssohn - Octet, Violin Concerto - Daniel Hope CD 78 Early Italian Opera Recordings CD 79 Early German Opera Recordings CD 80 Weber - Der Freischütz (abridged) - Robert Heger CD 81 Rita Streich sings Opera Arias CD 82-83 Verdi - La traviata - C. Kleiber CD 85 Opera Gala - Plácido Domingo CD 85 Wagner - Bryn Terfel CD 86 Mozart - Opera Arias - Magdalena Kožená, Simon Rattle CD 87 Duets - Anna Netrebko, Rolando Villazón CD 88 Bel canto - Elīna Garanča CD 89-90 Haydn - Die Schöpfung - Karajan CD 91 Mozart - Requiem - Böhm CD 92 Bach - Magnificat, Cantata BWV 140 - Karl Richter CD 93 Biber - Missa Salisburgensis - Paul McCreesh & Reinhard Goebel CD 94 Early Lied Recordings I CD 95 Early Lied Recordings II CD 96 Schubert - Winterreise - Peter Anders CD 97 Schumann - Dichterliebe - Fritz Wunderlich CD 98 Schumann - Liederkreis Wolf - Italienisches Liederbuch, Mignon - Christa Ludwig CD 99 Schubert - Lieder - Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau CD 100 Brahms - Lieder - Jessye Norman CD 101 Chaminade - Mots d’amour - Anne Sofie von Otter CD 102 Bach - Schübler Chorales, Organ Sonata no.1 BWV 525 - Helmut Walcha CD 103 Handel - Utrecht Te Deum, Zadok the Priest - Geraint Jones CD 104 Music of the Gothic Era - David Munrow, Early Music Consort of London CD 105 Vivaldi - Four Seasons - Simon Standage, Trevor Pinnock CD 106 Bach - Ascension Cantatas BWV 11, 34, 43, 128 - John Eliot Gardiner CD 107 Concerto italiano - Giuliano Carmignola CD 108 Early Light Music Recordings - Rudi Schuricke, Walzer Solisten CD 109 Majesty of the Waltz - Franz Marszalek CD 110 Weihnachtsalbum - Fritz Wunderlich CD 111 Kagel - 1898, Music for Renaissance Instruments CD 112 Reich - Six Pianos, Music for Mallet Instruments - Steve Reich CD 113 Wien Modern: Ligeti, Rihm, Boulez, Nono - Abbado CD 114 Glass - Violin Concerto - Philip Glass, Gidon Kremer CD 115 Invisible Connections - Vangelis CD 116 Recomposed - Max Richter CD 117 Jóhannsson - Orphée CD 118 Goethe - Faust I - Gustaf Gründgens CD 119 Goethe - Faust II - Gustaf Gründgens CD 120 Prokofiev - Peter and the Wolf - Sting, Abbado CD 121 "The years to come": Bonus CD with brand-new unreleased recordings Disc 122 (Blu-ray Audio) Wagner - Der Ring des Nibelungen - Karajan
