Classical "Mega" CD Box Sets

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

  1. TonyACT

    TonyACT Boxed-in!

    Cheers. I bought it partly because I have enough Beethoven sonata sets to last my lifetime and also a number of Ashkenazy's solo Chopin CDs, so minimal overlap with what I already had.
     
  2. jɑmbo

    jɑmbo Forum Resident

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    Australia
    You get a full Scriabin sonata cycle too, main reason I've coveted it.
     
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  3. nigels

    nigels Forum Resident

    So the Orpheus DG box is still Out-of-Stock in most online specialist stores. Exceptions include Presto, which now has a GIANT mark-up on the initial price (ended up being more than $180 to ship to the US). For a record conglomerate as big as Universal, one would think supply for such a popular title would not be an issue. Maybe more are being reprinted, similar to what apparently happened to the Emerson String Quartet box a couple years ago?
     
  4. Torran

    Torran Forum Resident

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    Italy
    Are there many taxes if you buy from Europe (Italy)? I like that box, but I don't want to spend more THAN 70/80 Euro...
     
  5. cws

    cws Forum Resident

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    Winter Springs, FL
    I really don't know. Customs charges might be a concern for you, though.
     
  6. TonyACT

    TonyACT Boxed-in!

    The Scriabin sonatas are where most of my duplication will be, as I have the Decca Complete Scriabin box. They are mixed in with other piano works in that box, so I am happy with them being collected together in the Ashkenazy set along with original covers.
     
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  7. croquetlawns

    croquetlawns Forum Resident

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  8. bluemooze

    bluemooze Senior Member

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    I saw this happening in Hunterdon County NJ and Bucks County PA after several instances of Delaware River flooding a number of years ago.
     
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  9. trix

    trix Forum Resident

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    I think this is the same type of packaging which was used by DG for their Chopin Deluxe set. It is terrible (the packaging, not the music). Looks nice, but is terribly designed and inconvenient. The cds are very tightly squeezed into thick cardboard pages and it is practically impossible to pull them out without either scratching the cd or damaging the packaging.
     
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  10. croquetlawns

    croquetlawns Forum Resident

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    Ah, the CDs in cardboard pages sound a bit like the Sony Elvis sets From Elvis In Nashville and Back in Nashville - a bit of a nightmare!
     
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  11. jɑmbo

    jɑmbo Forum Resident

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    Australia
    I emailed Warner again about the Saint-Saëns Edition replacement CD and they were sent out last week. Not sure I'll get mine before xmas, but people in the UK and Europe should hopefully.
     
  12. Randy Lane

    Randy Lane Forum Resident

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    Arizona USA
    Wow USPS!

    The Sony Rampal box was shipped Friday 12/03 via Media Mail from the Alliance Entertainment (ImportCDs.com) warehouse in Shepherdsville Kentucky, and it is out for delivery in Arizona today, Tuesday 12/07.

    I am impressed USPS!
     
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  13. MrCJF

    MrCJF Best served with coffee and cake.

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    United Kingdom
    Are we talking the same as the Berlin Phil live sets? I have the Sibelius, and it looks nice but is impractical


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  14. Daedalus

    Daedalus I haven't heard it all.....

    Idle speculation time: Will there be a Koussevitzky box set in the future? We saw the care that was taken to release the mono Ormandy legacy in great sound. Other box sets( such as Monteux RCA) have included many old recordings from the days of 78s which have been reproduced in very serviceable sound quality. We know that a Mitropoulas box set is coming to the market in 2022.
     
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  15. Tom M

    Tom M Forum Resident

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  16. trix

    trix Forum Resident

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    No, it is not quite the same. The cds in DG box are arranged in a much more impractical manner.
     
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  17. misterjones

    misterjones Smarter than the average bear.

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    New York, NY
    Knock on wood. I never comment on a potential delivery until the item is in my grubby mits.
     
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  18. Pierrot Lunaire

    Pierrot Lunaire Forum Resident

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  19. MrCJF

    MrCJF Best served with coffee and cake.

    Location:
    United Kingdom
    Mega (31 disc) BluRay box for Jan 22
    30 Years of European concerts - Berlin Philharmonic
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    https://www.jpc.de/jpcng/classic/de...rte-der-berliner-philharmoniker/hnum/10770223
    1991 in Prague - Mozart: Symphonies No. 29 & 35; Overture & arias from "Don Giovanni"; Recitative & Rondo KV 505 (Cherryl Studer, Bruno Canino, Berlin Philharmonic, Claudio Abbado)

    +1992 in Madrid - Wagner: excerpts from Meistersinger, Walküre, Götterdämmerung; Berlioz: Marche hongroise & Invocation a la natura from "La Damnation de Faust"; Verdi: La Forza del Destino Overture; Io l'ho perdua from "Don Carlo" (Placido Domingo, Berlin Philharmonic, Daniel Barenboim)

    +1993 in London - Mozart: Violin Concerto No. 3 KV 216; Stravinsky: Le Sacre du Printemps; Tchaikovsky: Romeo & Juliet & Waltz of Flowers (Frank Peter Zimmermann, Berliner Philharmoniker, Bernard Haitink)

    +1994 in Meiningen - Beethoven: Piano Concerto No. 5; Brahms: Symphony No. 2 Daniel Barenboim, Berlin Philharmonic, Claudio Abbado)

    +1995 in Florence - Beethoven: Fidelio Overture; Blacher: Paganini Variations op. 26; Paganini: Allegro maestoso from Violin Concerto No. 1; Stravinsky: Petrushka; Dvorak: Slavic Dance No. 8 (Sarah Chang, Berliner Philharmoniker, Zubin Mehta)

    +1996 in St. Petersburg - Beethoven: Symphony No. 7; Romances No. 1 & 2 for violin & orchestra; Prokofieff: Romeo & Julia (Ausz.); Tchaikovsky: Waltz of flowers from "Nutcracker"; Rachmaninoff: Alekos Cavatina from "Aleko" (Anatoly Kocherga, Kolja Blacher, Berliner Philharmoniker, Claudio Abbado)

    +1997 in Versailles - Mozart: Piano Concerto No. 13; Beethoven: Symphony No. 3 "Eroica"; Ravel: Le Tombeau de Couperin (Daniel Barenboim, Berliner Philharmoniker, Daniel Barenboim)

    +1998 in Stockholm - Wagner: Dutch overture; Tchaikovsky: The Storm Overture; Debussy: Nocturnes; Verdi: 4 Pezzi sacri (Eric Ericson Chamber Choir, Berliner Philharmoniker, Claudio Abbado

    +1999 in Kraukau - Mozart: Exsultate, jubilate KV 165; "Et incarnatus est" from Mass KV 427; Chopin: Piano Concerto No. 2; Schumann: Symphony No. 1 (Christine Schäfer, Emanuel Ax, Berliner Philharmoniker, Bernard Haitink),

    +2000 in Berlin - Beethoven: Symphony No. 9 & Piano Concerto No. 2 (Mikhail Pletnev, Berlin Philharmonic, Claudio Abbado)

    +2001 in Istanbul - Haydn: Symphony No. 94 "With the bang"; Mozart: Flute Concerto No. 2; Berlioz: Symphonie fantastique (Emmanuel Pahud, Berliner Philharmoniker, Mariss Jansons)

    +2002 in Palermo - Dvorak: Symphony No. 9; Beethoven: Egmont Overture; Brahms: Violin Concerto: Verdi: Les Vepres Siciliennes Overture (Gil Shaham, Berlin Philharmonic, Claudio Abbado)

    +2003 in Lisbon - Ravel: Le Tombeau de Couperin; Mozart: Piano Concerto No. 20; Bartok: Concerto for Orchestra; Debussy: Fetes from »Nocturnes« (Maria Joao Pires, Berlin Philharmonic, Pierre Boulez)

    + 2004 in Athens - Brahms: Piano Concerto No. 1 & Piano Quartet No. 1 (arranged for orchestra by Arnold Schönberg) (Daniel Barenboim, Berlin Philharmonic, Simon Rattle)

    +2005 in Budapest - Berlioz: Le Corsaire Overture; Bartok: Violin Concerto No. 2; Stravinsky: The Firebird (Leonidas Kavakos, Berliner Philharmoniker, Simon Rattle)

    +2006 in Prague - Mozart: Symphonies Nos. 35 & 36; Piano Concerto No. 22; Horn Concerto No. 1 (Daniel Barenboim (piano & conductor), Radek Baborak, Berlin Philharmonic)

    +2007 in Berlin - Brahms: Symphony No. 4; Concerto for violin, cello & orchestra op. 102; Wagner: Parsifal prelude (Lisa Batiashvili, Truls Mörk, Berliner Philharmoniker, Simon Rattle)

    +2008 in Moscow - Stravinsky: Symphony in three movements; Bruch: Violin Concerto No. 1; Beethoven: Symphony No. 7 (Vadim Repin, Berliner Philharmoniker, Simon Rattle)

    +2009 in Naples - Schumann: Symphony No. 9 in C major "The Great"; Verdi: La Forza Del Destino Overture; Martucci: La Canzone Dei Ricordi (Violeta Urmana, Berliner Philharmoniker, Riccardo Muti)

    +2010 in Oxford - Brahms: Symphony No. 1; Wagner: Prelude to Act III from Meistersinger; Elgar: Cello Concerto op. 85 (Alisa Weilerstein, Berliner Philharmoniker, Daniel Barenboim)

    +2011 in Madrid - Chabrier: Espana; Rodrigo: Concierto de Aranjuez; Rachmaninoff: Symphony No. 2 (Juan Manuel Canizares (guitar), Berliner Philharmoniker, Simon Rattle)

    +2012 in Vienna - Brahms: Haydn Variations op. 56a; Haydn: Cello Concerto in C major H. 7b No. 1; Beethoven: Symphony No. 5 (Gautier Capucon, Berliner Philharmoniker, Gustavo Dudamel)

    +2013 in Prague - Vaughan Williams: Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis; Dvorak: Biblical songs op. 99; Beethoven: Symphony No. 6 (Magdalena Kozena, Berliner Philharmoniker, Simon Rattle)

    +2014 in Berlin - Nicolai: The Merry Wives of Windsor Overture; Elgar: Falstaff op. 68; Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 5 (Berliner Philharmoniker, Daniel Barenboim)

    +2015 in Athens - Rossini: Semiramide Overture; Sibelius: Violin Concerto op. 47; Bach: Largo from Sonata No. 3 BWV 1005; Schumann: Symphony No. 3 (Leonidas Kavakos, Berliner Philharmoniker, Simon Rattle)

    +2016 in Roros - Beethoven: Symphony No. 4; Breastad: Veslefrikk; Mendelssohn: Violin Concerto op. 64; Grieg: Evening in the mountains op.68 No. 4 (Vilde Frang, Berliner Philharmoniker, Simon Rattle)

    +2017 in Cyprus - Weber: Oberon Overture, Clarinet Concerto No. 1; Dvorak: Symphony No. 8 (Berliner Philharmoniker, Mariss Jansons)

    +2018 in Bayreuth - Beethoven: Symphony No. 4, Leonore Overture No. 3, The Creatures of Prometheus Overture op. 43; Wagner: Wesendonck-Lieder (Eva-Maria Westbroek, Berliner Philharmoniker, Paavo Järvi)

    +2019 in Paris - Wagner: Wagner: Good Friday Magic from Parsifa, Wotan's Farewell & Fire Magic from Die Walküre (concert version); Berlioz: Royal Hunt & Storm from Les Troyens, love scene from Romeo et Juliette; Debussy: Prelude a l'apres-midi d'un faune; Pelleas et Melisande concert suite (Bryn Terfel, Berliner Philharmoniker, Daniel Harding)

    +2020 in Berlin - Pärt: Fratres; Ligeti: ramifications; Barber: Adagio for Strings; Mahler: Symphony No. 4 (Christiane Karg, Berliner Philharmoniker, Kirill Petrenko)

    +2021 in Berlin - Blacher: Fanfare for the opening of the Philharmonie; Ives: The Unanswered Questin; Mozart: Notturno for 4 orchestras KV 286; Penderecki: Emanations for 2 string orchestras; Tchaikovsky: Suite No. 3 op. 55; Adams: Short Ride in a Fast Machine (Berliner Philharmoniker, Kirill Petrenko)
     
  20. Swordsandchains

    Swordsandchains True metal never rusts

    Location:
    Chicago
    hate the sets for that reason only
     
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  21. WWC

    WWC Forum Resident

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  22. Randy Lane

    Randy Lane Forum Resident

    Location:
    Arizona USA
    I bought the similarly packaged New Years concert set a few months ago.
    Very pleased
     
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  23. Randy Lane

    Randy Lane Forum Resident

    Location:
    Arizona USA
    It has been listed as a future item with Amazon.co.uk for two years, with the date being continuously pushed out.
     
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  24. misterjones

    misterjones Smarter than the average bear.

    Location:
    New York, NY
    Nothing against Norman, of course, but I question this marketing tactic. The long advance notice for Furtwangler gave me enough time to decide against it. Others may feel differently.
     
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  25. TonyACT

    TonyACT Boxed-in!

    Nice looking box. I can see that sitting on my shelf one day.

    Well, when I buy another shelf, no room free at the moment ;)
     
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