Mozart: The New Complete Edition 225

[insider9]

Thanks guys.

I only looked at your latest post because I was hoping you'd spotted it for £173 again!!

Ha!

I have the Amazon page saved to my favourites and check it most days just in case. I now wish that I'd bought about a dozen of them instead of two.

The lowest it's been so far was £300.

I take it you've not heard of camelcamelcamel

Google it, may save you some hassle

 

[nopiano]

Thanks guys.

I only looked at your latest post because I was hoping you'd spotted it for £173 again!!

Ha!

I have the Amazon page saved to my favourites and check it most days just in case. I now wish that I'd bought about a dozen of them instead of two.

The lowest it's been so far was £300.

I take it you've not heard of camelcamelcamel

Google it, may save you some hassle

Funny you should mention that (not aimed at me, I know) but I've had it logged there since Steve first posted. I'm not holding my breath, though it's down to about £325 when I last looked.

 

[chebby]

I've noticed a couple of 'reviews' on Amazon saying that their box set has a duplicate CD in there requiring them to replace the whole box set.

I doubt many people take the shrink wrap off and will never know.

 

[steve_1979]

I take it you've not heard of camelcamelcamel

I hadn't. cheers.

 

[insider9]

I take it you've not heard of camelcamelcamel

I hadn't. cheers.

You're welcome. There're also browser plugins such as cameliser that are really helpful. I'm using one with Chrome on desktop for quite a while now and it's great.

 

[steve_1979]

The quality of the recordings in this boxset are really first class. So far, with just one exception, every single track has been a better quality recording than the one that I already own of the same piece. They're often much better recordings too. You can tell that whoever put this boxset together really cares about what they were do and they took their time selecting the best versions of each piece from the massive Phillips/Decca/Deutsche Grammophon catalogue available to them.

Even at the regular price of over £300 this this boxset is a huge bargain. There's no doubt that this is something that I'll be listening to regularly for the rest of my life. I'm so glad I bought it.

 

[nopiano]

The quality of the recordings in this boxset are really first class. So far, with just one exception, every single track has been a better quality recording than the one that I already own of the same piece. They're often much better recordings too. You can tell that whoever put this boxset together really cares about what they were do and they took their time selecting the best versions of each piece from the massive Phillips/Decca/Deutsche Grammophon catalogue available to them.

Even at the regular price of over £300 this this boxset is a huge bargain. There's no doubt that this is something that I'll be listening to regularly for the rest of my life. I'm so glad I bought it.

Now you're rubbing it in! It is still around £325.

 

[steve_1979]

Now you're rubbing it in! It is still around £325.

Sorry, I wasn't intending to rub it in but if you're sitting on the fence with this one just go for it. Even at double that price it would be worth every penny.

 

[bubobubo]

¨.. (including from Musical Fidelity's founder)..

interesting

 

[bubobubo]

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- Is it available as a Hi Res download?

you can buy few tracks if you want, in this page: https://se.7digital.com/

 

[bubobubo]

This looks very interesting. Mozart is my favourite compser too.

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Mozart is by far my favourite composer.

my favorite is vivaldi but mozart like rameau is the ones i like most their piano works, i wish some orchestra conductor someday produce all the works of Mozart with the best modern electronic as possible if possible all the chain in digital from microphone to format, with no more than 16 bit 44 khz. YES

 

[steve_1979]

my favorite is vivaldi but mozart like rameau is the ones i like most their piano works, i wish some orchestra conductor someday produce all the works of Mozart with the best modern electronic as possible if possible all the chain in digital from microphone to format, with no more than 16 bit 44 khz. YES

While the recording quality is obviously very important for me it's the performance that really matters most. There are some older recordings which technically don't have as good sound quality as their modern counterparts but they're still better because the performers on the day were more talented or were playing more skillfully and it's the feeling and emotion that they bring to the music that gives classical its magic.

Otto Klemperer's version of The Magic Flute is one such example. https://www.amazon.co.uk/Magic-Flute-Mozart/dp/B00004VVZN

Carlos Kleiber's version of Beethoven's 5th is another good example. https://www.amazon.co.uk/Beethoven-Symphonies-Nos-5-7/dp/B000001GPX

 

[nopiano]

¨.. (including from Musical Fidelity's founder)..

interesting

Anthony Michaelson is a fine clarinettist!