For anyone without a turntable, you can buy the set new on CD for £25.99...
http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B003Y3MYYU/?tag=pinkfishmedia-21
That is excellent value.
We live in a world of fantastically well priced classical reissues.
Very True, and I am scooping as many as I can while they are still available.
We live in a world of fantastically well priced classical reissues.
I bought this set of Prokofiev symphonies the other week. 4 CDs of 1970s vintage Kingsway Hall recordings from Decca, reissued on Brilliant for under a tenner...
http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B001SNXUC8/?tag=pinkfishmedia-21
phenomenal value, performance and recording.
I bought what looked like an immaculate Giulini Verdi Requiem from Oxfam to replace my knackered one. It looked pristine as did the box, libretto and sleeves. The entire left channel had been scraped out (by a dodgy cartridge I assume).
The CD of that performance (on EMI 'recordings of the century') is dreadfully mastered - harsh, compressed and a thorough disappointment. That's on a Densen CD player too, so no fault there!
Worth mentioning that the Bohm is a live recording so has a fair amount of stage and audience noise, but it's still my favourite.