Remember Alex Ross's little tip that you can get the complete works of Stravinsky on CD for about thirty dollars via Amazon UK? Like many others, I took advantage of it, and my set arrive today. Verdict? Totally worth it. As Alex says, it is a 22 CD set on Sony Classical, mostly recordings conducted by Stravinsky or Craft in the 1950s and 1960s. Obviously, those of us immersed in the world of twentieth-century modernism will not be satisfied by the package alone; the serious musicologist will still need his/her's six different recordings of Le Sacre. But you know, the man wrote a lot of music, and this is a great way to have all those obscure etudes and sacred pieces that wouldn't really be worth buying separately, but are nice to have on hand for the odd passing research question or teaching moment.
And the best part is that it only took about a week to arrive, and the total bill for me including shipping was $36.92.
P.S. Why wasn't the exchange rate this good when my wife was going to school in England for five years?
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