Classical "Mega" CD Box Sets

Discussion in 'Music Corner' started by dajokr, Jan 28, 2012.

  1. J.A.W.

    J.A.W. Music Addict

  2. J.A.W.

    J.A.W. Music Addict

    Another upcoming release:

    October


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  3. croquetlawns

    croquetlawns Forum Resident

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    So many upcoming releases - I guess they're doing it all now while physical product still has a reasonable market.
     
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  4. TonyACT

    TonyACT Boxed-in!

    That's pretty much been the case since the majors joined Brilliant in this whole mega box thing.

    I just hope I live long enough to enjoy the mountain of CDs which has grown up in my living room ;)
     
  5. Torran

    Torran Forum Resident

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    Italy

    I expect many duplicates. The discs are few, I already have all those recorded with ferras and cluytens....
     
  6. TonyACT

    TonyACT Boxed-in!

    Just arrived at the door, 38 CDs :):

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  7. Papageno

    Papageno Forum Resident

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  8. hvbias

    hvbias Midrange magic

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    Last night I did a level matched comparison with the Backhaus Complete Decca Recordings vs the Japan first pressing CD box set of the Beethoven Piano Sonatas mono cycle (POCL-3471/8). The new Complete box is exceptionally well mastered, all of the hiss and crackle of that noisy 1950s tape formulation is left intact as well as the space between the notes in the higher registers of the piano. It essentially sounds pretty much the same as the Japan box set; the booklet says these are newly remastered in 24/96, the newer remastering did very little (or did nothing) to the transfers just like the Japan box.

    I also compared the original (either late 80s or early 90s) Live in Ossiach Decca CD and the new CD sounds pretty much the same.

    I wish the Decca engineers were able to record more Backhaus live, some of the bootlegs sound pretty lousy. Backhaus even at his last live recordings often sounds like himself 10 or 15 years ago in his less measured approach.
     
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  9. mBen989

    mBen989 Senior Member

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    Which Beethoven symphony cycle is included?
     
  10. coopmv

    coopmv Newton 1/30/2001 - 8/31/2011

    Location:
    CT, USA
    1977 cycle.
     
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  11. Runicen

    Runicen Forum Resident

    I think I already know the answer to this, but I placed an order back in July for the Paillard Edition box set on Amazon. It was posted with a (re-)release date in August that kept moving back and now shows as "Currently Unavailable."

    Was posting it with a release date a mistake on Amazon's part, or was this actually re-pressed? Basically trying to gauge whether or not to keep waiting for the thing.
     
  12. Sigma

    Sigma Forum Resident

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    Looks like this box is OOP
     
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  13. Sigma

    Sigma Forum Resident

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    His recordings with Ferras was amazing! And they really need to stop coming out with things like this....
     
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  14. J.A.W.

    J.A.W. Music Addict

    DG has added some more details of the upcoming big Kempff box (which so far is only listed on their site, by the way); they have licensed the recordings that were previously reissued by APR and restored by Mark Obert-Thorn:

    ABOUT THE APR RECORDINGS: Over his 60-year recording career, Wilhelm Kempff never relented in his quest for perfection. Beethoven’s Pathétique Sonata, for example, was committed to disc at least nine times! Keeping up with and documenting all this activity was never easy for his record companies, and many original sources - including nearly all those from the shellac era - no longer exist in Deutsche Grammophon’s master archive. So to provide as comprehensive an overview of Kempff’s recording career as possible, DG have licensed a legendary nearly-complete Beethoven cycle from the shellac era (1925-43) from APR (transfer engineer: Mark Obert-Thorn) as a comparison with Kempff’s later complete mono and stereo LP cycles also included in the box. The edition concludes with Kempff’s very first shellac disc for Deutsche Grammophon, of Beethoven’s C major Bagatelle op.33/5, where he can faintly be heard exclaiming “Donnerwetter”(“Dammit”) when his finger strikes two notes instead of one.


    The Concerto Recordings: (14CDs)

    Beethoven: Piano Concertos; Mozart: Piano Concertos; Schumann: Piano Concerto, Brahms: Piano Concerto No. 1; Liszt: Piano Concerto



    Chamber Music: (14 CDs)

    Beethoven: Sonatas for Piano and Violin with Wolfgang Schneiderhan and with Yehudi Menuhin

    Beethoven: Sonatas for Piano and Violoncello with Pierre Fournier

    Beethoven: Trios with Pierre Fournier and Henryk Szeryng

    Plus recordings with Pablo Casals, Georg Kulenkampff, and Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau



    Solo Repertoire: (46 CDs)

    Works by: Bach, Beethoven, Brahms, Chopin, Händel, Liszt, Mozart, Schubert, Schumann including complete Schubert Sonatas and two complete Beethoven Sonata cycles



    Shellac Recordings (6 CDs):

    Beethoven: Sonatas – Recorded 1920, 1925, 1928, 1932, 1936, 1940, 1941, 1943


     
  15. TonyACT

    TonyACT Boxed-in!

    As @coopmv notes it's the 1970s cycle.

    This was an added attraction to me as I currently have the 1963 cycle, and only the 6th symphony from 1977. I try to minimise exact duplicates as much as possible with these mega box purchases, and have managed to only have 15 across my entire collection.

    Though I would probably have bought this one anyway given the crazy low price even if I already had more of its contents.
     
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  16. TonyACT

    TonyACT Boxed-in!

    Another one on the way:

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  17. MichaelCPE

    MichaelCPE Forum Resident

    That is an amazing bargain!!

    I assume this was ordered via Amazon Australia, and sold by them.
    Unfortunately it is no longer shown as available from them :(

    CamelCamel shows a slow fall in price Freiburger Barockorchester Edition by FREIBURGER BAROCKORCHESTER (B0054MEHZ8)
    so you were very lucky to get it at the bottom of this fall - just before it sold out.

    So how did you manage this amazing feat?
     
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  18. TonyACT

    TonyACT Boxed-in!

    Random searches of the Outlet Store.

    But it should be available again if anyone is interested - I cancelled my order as I didn't notice I already had the half of the box I was interested in :(
     
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  19. coopmv

    coopmv Newton 1/30/2001 - 8/31/2011

    Location:
    CT, USA
    Sounds like you are a big fan of the Freiburger. After a few CD singles and their DVD of Brandenburg Concertos, I decided this is not a group I want to add more of their recordings to my collection. They seem to be the showman of classical music ...
     
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  20. DEVA

    DEVA Forum Resident

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    My opinion is the very opposite in this regard. I just love their work. I have hunt down their recordings toward the years and I have at moment 89 CD´s of their recordings (I even thought in hiring our friend Donny Brook to design and build a make-your-own box-set out of them :laugh:).

    I honestelly regard the "Freiburg Barockorchester" as a class of their own among the orchestras... just like as I do for the "Tafelmusik Baroque Orchestre" for example.

    Anyway, just a different opinion :)

    P.S. In this count above, a double album counted as 2 CD´s, a triple album as 3 CD´s... thus 89 CD´s, not 89 albuns, just to make it clear.

    Kindest regards,
    regards,
    DB

     
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  21. jɑmbo

    jɑmbo Forum Resident

    Location:
    Australia
    Scored another cheap mini box on Amazon

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    It has since gone back up to $76.29
     
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  22. MichaelCPE

    MichaelCPE Forum Resident

    It is back on Amazon Australia, showing 1 in stock, but the price is now $76.29.

    I only already have one of the 10 CDs in the box, so I shall grab this set if the price plummets again.

    I'll have to start doing random checks of the outlet store. Part of the fun for me is the hunt for bargains.

    And in checking it out just then, I bought a 3CD set of Beethoven Piano Pieces (on authentic instruments - https://www.amazon.com.au/gp/product/B00NVWRA98/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_asin_title_o00_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1 for just A$9.09
     
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  23. giantleech

    giantleech Lord of all fevers and plagues

    Where to find?
     
  24. TonyACT

    TonyACT Boxed-in!

    Crazy price variations. I can't see a pattern as yet.

    The 9 CD Pollini Chopin box I bought a few weeks back was $30 or so in one listing and $80 in another - both from Amazon themselves (possibly one in Melbourne and one in Sydney - they had slightly different names in the listing).
     
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  25. bruckner13

    bruckner13 Forum Resident

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