Cheap'n'cheesy: can bargain classical CDs go any lower?
Customers are the winners in the classical price-cutting craze, but some of the repackaging could do with a makeoverI've just bought Furtwängler's Rome recording of Wagner's Ring for less than £40. I never know how it makes economic sense for EMI, or any other record company, to release some of their best back catalogue at bargain-basement prices, but for less than £3 per disc, you can now get one of the legends of the gramophone, a set that I remember in my teens trying and failing to justif...
Guardian Music — Customers are the winners in the classical price-cutting craze, but some of the repackaging could do with a makeoverI've just bought Furtwängler's Rome recording of Wagn... more info