To be released in December, the Szigeti Complete Columbia Album Collection: Joseph Szigeti - The Complete Columbia Album Collection (17 CDs) – jpc
So many upcoming releases - I guess they're doing it all now while physical product still has a reasonable market.
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
I expect many duplicates. The discs are few, I already have all those recorded with ferras and cluytens....
Maria Callas - Remastered Live Recordings 1949-1964 (Limited Edition) € 69.99 Maria Callas - Remastered Live Recordings 1949-1964 (Limited Edition) (42 CDs und 3 Blu-ray Discs) – jpc
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.
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.
His recordings with Ferras was amazing! And they really need to stop coming out with things like this....
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
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.
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?
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
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 ...
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 ). 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
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
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).
Seiji Ozawa & The Chicago Symphony Orchestra 8.40 € at Amazon Spain https://www.amazon.es/gp/product/B01MZ069X9/