Chicago Classical Music

I have had wonderful luck with Amazon. Most of my purchases are on Amazon.com. Every once in a while I have found that Amazon.com does not have what I want. In those cases I have purchased things from Amazon in other countries. Once I wanted a rare Les Arts Florrisant Cd that Amazon.com did not have. Well, I asked myself what country is more in love with early and classical music that the U.S. I knew the answer to be Germany. So I tried Amazon.de. Sure enough, the Germans had what I wanted. I had a devil of a time trying to use a website in German when I could neither read or speak it. But, through trial and error I got the CD ordered and it came. The downside is that I now recieve periodic spam from Amazon.de. I also had a wonderful experience with Amazon.ca. When I was in Toronto I saw a complete package of a James Levine set of the complete Ring Cycle on CD advertised in the Toronto newspaper for sale on Amazon for $35 Canadian. I tried to order it on Amazon.com and found the only James Levine Ring Cycle set was around $120. I looked at the newpaper ad again and noted it was AMAZON.CA, not Amazon.com. So I logged onto Amazon.ca and found that they did have the $35 Ring Cycle set for sale. I ordered it and it came. It is the real deal. The quality is fabulous. The recordings are the same as the $120 set. But the packaging is a little simpler. It is packaged in a bunch of paper sleeves for the CDs. It included a wonderful booklet in English plus some other languages. Earlier this summer I went to Sweded for the Stockholm Early Music Festival. After I got home and thought about what I had seen and heard I decided I wanted recordings of the players I had heard. So, I went to Amazon.com and found recordings by three of the European groups I had seen and heard. I was amazed to find these recordings of very rare and small European groups who never travel in the U.S. to have recordings for sale on Amazon.com. So I have come to rely on Amazon..

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