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Watching a production of Tannhäuser on YouTube. No English subs, and I have never seen the opera before.

But I am reading the detailed plot summary on Wikipedia as I go. Armed with that knowledge, I can follow the music and stage action well enough.

This production has very simple sets and is set in modern times. T is a painter instead of poet, and Venus was completely naked for the first 20 minutes. I think it's from Barcelona.

 

I have a few here and there. Mostly Bruckner though.

 

You guys are killing me with these sets I want to get but have to wait on.

 

Currently spinning-

 

My goodness, this Shimkus family is talented! (Her older brother is an even more colossal pianist.) Fabulous playing and sound. (Well, parts of the Bach Toccata are a bit fast for my taste.)

 

I don't have that particular set, nor the K.428 w/Amadeus... However I do have some of their Mozart quartet recordings.
What do they consider "The Great String Quartets"? The later ones? I have an individual album (below) with two of the last four quartets on it -- possibly duplicated in your set:

 

$81.92 for that 50 CD Philips box. Man, I'm tempted.

 

Usually the quartets dedicated to Haydn: 14, K.387; 15, K.421; 16, K.428; 17, K.458; 18, K.464; 19, K.465; the "Hoffmeister": 20, K.499; and the "Prussian Quartets": 21, K.575; 22, K.589; 23, K.590

 

Now playing the following CD with the harpsichord version of the foregoing works from my JS Bach collection. The performer was fellow Canadian Kenneth Gilbert ...

 

While I was still working I went nuts on the box sets but now that I'm retired they are few and far between.

 

I'm also retired and I bought a house about a year ago. I was really good about not buying music for about 8 months. I need to chill again with the purchases for a while.

Hastings is closing, but I'm staying away.

 

The era of big box really did not begin until around 2008 IMO ...

 

Is Hastings your local B&M music store?

I am another (early) retiree ...

 

So do I.

I will never buy another Satie CD no matter how much praise is heaped on it.

 

Give yourself credit, 8 months is commendable.

 

Satie is no JS Bach. Three versions of his best works are more than enough ...

 

Although I hear you, and sympathize, something tells me you have a CD (or 1,000) you can listen to in the meantime.

 

You know me.
I think it is more like 2,500.

 

At about $1.60/CD, it is quite reasonable.

 

Now listening to "Grieg - Sonatas pour violon et piano" performed by Olivier Charlier and Brigitte Engerer on Harmonia Mundi.

 

Believe it or not, I have more duplicates of works for Satie than I do Bach.

 

This trio has been on my wish list forever ...

 

Me too.

 

If your definition of a duplicate is simply the same work but by a different performer, it is not a duplicate to me.

 

Very wise