I have it in the Deutsche Grammophon set Mozart 111 Masterworks, which adds all of Horowitz's other DG Mozart recordings as bonus tracks. A very nice disc.
If you enjoy Baroque, here is another of the Argerich-Maisky partnership that I have really enjoyed over the years ...
Here are all the Naive recordings by Sokolov in my collection. I do not have any of his DG recordings yet ...
Are you mainly a big box person? Not that there is anything wrong with that as big box approach is best for people who do not already have many singles but want to build a nice classical music collection ...
I used to be when I was starting out with classical music about 6 years ago. It was by far the easiest and cheapest way to build a decent collection of the basic classical music repertoire. Nowadays I don't really buy them anymore, since just about all of them feature too many pieces I already own. Since I love Mozart I really did want to have the Mozart 225 set, but I haven't bought any of them since. So I guess I'm slowly switching from big boxes to individual releases.
One thing I really do not like is the almost constant repackaging of the same recordings in the follow-up big box to the original big box. It is also not easy to keep track of the contents of the big boxes. It seems the only upsides for these big boxes are the space savings and prices but they may be good enough for many folks ...
Completely agree. Also, having seen the Berlin Phil several times in recent years I'm more than aware of what Karajan achieved with them!
Another good thing about big boxes is that they often feature recordings that are currently unavailable on their own, or even never before released on CD. But yes, people who already own a big classical selection will no doubt soon run into many duplicates.
Unfortunately with the passage of time, fewer and fewer members of the BPO were under the tutelage of Karajan since it has been thirty years since the Europe director general of music last managed the orchestra. I really have no clue as to what values Simon Rattle has added. Mind you I have absolutely nothing against the English, I just do not like Rattle as a conductor ...
That is why I pick and choose which big box to buy to avoid having too many duplicates. If there are enough OOP recordings in the box, I would still buy that big box since it makes economic sense ...
Absolutely. Sadly I just don't hear the drive and passion anymore that they had under HVK. I detect more than a degree of complacency.
Rain continues this gray-looking Monday... Maybe that's why I'm drawn to some colorful music from Respighi, Mussorgsky, and Rimsky-Korsakov. (A colorful jacket from DG, as well!) Peformed by the Berlin Philharmonic, led by Lorin Maazel. DG, tulips LP, German, 1965.
BPO direct linkage to Karajan was broken with the retirement of Claudio Abbado, who was student of Karajan along with Seiji Ozawa. Eschenbach would have been a much better successor to Abbado than Rattle IMO ...
I absolutely adore this LP, especially the Rimsky. Electric performances and recording. I have the later Heliodor pressing. Sadly the cover isn't quite as lovely!
I am at a friend’s house right now and listening to some cheap compilation called “Andante”, on the Decca label. It contains mostly slow movements from string quartets and such. Anyway, what I find remarkable is the fact that there are around 39 (!) minutes of music per side and the records sound absolutely phenomenal. No trace of inner groove distortion at all and plenty of dynamics. These are DMM cuts.
@julesd68, I also have the following recording but am not sure why the CD jacket says Bob van Asperen on organ instead of harpsichord. Anner Bylsma is of course the great Dutch cellist ...
You usually get the oldie but goodie. I might have seen the version you have but decided to go with the later version ...
I had an opportunity to buy this Geza Anda Schumann & Grieg lp on DG a couple of days ago. Does anyone know it? I could go back and buy it I expect, and it was very cheap ...
