Two discs in so far and enjoying it very much. Listening to a sequential disc a night during dinner time with this one.
Received yesterday from ImportCDs.com for $48 Nice set. Gathers individual compositions from a vast array (dozens!!) of original disks. This is NOT 30 original complete CDs repackaged into a box.
Regarding Karajan, you can almost never go wrong with his 1960s recordings - and his Beethoven symphonies (except the fast, icy 6th) is no exception.
Thanks, yes. Looking for one locally first if I can find it. Generally not impressed with the packaging from Amazon USA.
I should let them give me an affiliate link, like some youtubers do, so I can get a commission out of this. Or, better yet, persuading them into sending me the exact same box any of you buy from the links I post here, free of charge of course. I have a feeling they won't accept any my kind offers Every time that video pops out, I die a little inside. By the way, that Bach box is on a list that was leaked (totally unintentionally on my part ) to my friends and family for my upcoming birthday. Who knows if some of them will took the bait?
I’m making my way through the Toscanini collection from Sony - what a document of musical history. To imagine all these symphonies that have been played 81 years ago, before even my dad was born. People sitting at home at their radios listening to them. That said, Beethoven‘s 5th from that box was on my menu today - and wow, they played that one fast for sure. P.S.: I did fall for the 60 CDs of Bach cantatas in the end ... shipped to the US a bit over 61 Euro. Fingers crossed for Amazon.it to not ship it in a plastic bag ... which is a story for another day.
The Toscanini is a super box, one of the favorite half-dozen in my collection. I ordered a DG Symphony box from Amazon Italy a few years back - still waiting for it to arrive
No Original Jackets since there are no complete original disks. Ricercar put all of the compositions from their vast baroque catalog into a pool, then selected representative recordings of the compositions they wanted to feature and compiled 30 CDs from those selections. Most of the CDs have multiple composers AND multiple artists. A few have a single composer but still multiple artists.
Two Brilliant boxes: Haydn & Mozart. Complete Galway box. The Menuhin Century (superb box). DG History of Classical on 100 CDs. Lots of other boxes I like a lot, but those (with the Toscanini) are the heart of my collection.
@giantleech: There's a copy of the Toscanini box for $125 (!) on eBay right now. The one caveat is that the lid of the box is missing. And the piece of black foam that makes the CDs stand straight inside, because the box is slightly too large for the CDs, the DVD and the book. But those are all in there. And this is a KILLER price for a 2012 box. About to play some Cherubini from it. (eBay has them with lid, too, but they are $300 more.) Good choices. Right now, I'd add the RCA Munch box to it - and will get back to this once I've listened through all the boxes on the living room floor.
It's a joke, really. The ones on Amazon.com start at $800 before tax. Why doesn't Sony make MORE of these boxes? What a missed opportunity to make more money. And I got excited for a moment on eBay. An Ormandy box?! But alas, this is not a complete edition at all. There are similar small ones out for Horowitz and Walter, but those also seem like subsets of their regular mega boxes? I'm still on the hunt for the large Original Jacket Collection of Horowitz.
Have all those, except for the DG history of Classical and and agree with you, they are great. I've heard not so good reviews about the Brilliant Mozart, it may not be the best versions out there, but I like it, it's not bad at all.
The Mozart was my first big box many years ago so it has a special memory. I like the performances too, especially in the sacred music.
They did it again! Jpc has shipped my scribendum the art of van beinum box (40 cds 80 euro) as a small parcel (so they said) without tracking information! I'm furious!
