I think I'm going to slightly edit this... On average, I think, I listen to 2-4 CDs per month from each of my box sets.
Now on the turntable, "Plainchant & Polyphony from Medieval Germany" performed by Schola Antiqua led by R. John Blackley on Nonesuch.
Just finished Disc 33 from the Alicia de Larrocha complete Decca recordings box: I don't know these pieces well, but de Larrocha's playing seems very assured and convincing.
Now playing CD44 - Chopin Ballade Nos. 1 - 4, Barcarolle and Fantaisie from the following box for a first listen ...
Getting a little specific here but IMO the bars from 10:04 to 10:21 qualify as the most intense music that has ever been written. Lenny seems to think so as well.
I really regret missing it. To think I dragged my feet because of the LP-sized format. IIRC there were some notable items missing from it (?), so maybe an expanded reissue is something we hope for before The Cloud swallows up the world. He was a lion! I think Sono Luminus is still reissuing Dorian things and controls the catalog now? IIRC Brilliant Classics licensed some things, but I am too lazy to check right now. (Villa-Lobos string quartets set? Some other Latin American composers, like Chavez symphonies?) Listened to more Shostakovich string quartets by the later Borodin Quartet: quartets 8/9/10. Finished with my little batch of Samuel Barber, and I think Knoxville, Summer of 1915 is my favorite piece by him. This recording was by Karina Gauvin (cond. Alsop), but I am going to hasten to a disc I have with Leontyne Price. I bet's it's killer. Another Barber/Alsop disc with the piano concerto etc was much less to my liking. It included a Christmas carol pastiche (?) that I found rather poor. Now listening to more Messiaen organ music by Latry....spec. the epic Les Corps Glorieux. Organ music has been a slowly acquired taste for me, but I just got my first subwoofer, and this actually helps immeasurably. Not just a novelty effect! As always, there is no substitute for the cathedral, but for whatever reason my (distant) experiences with the real thing have left me cold. That's a pity. This music is still not quite a natural fit for me, but the otherworldly quality (and not just of Messiaen) has an appeal. I will listen to Gillian Weir's recordings maybe next year.
This morning:CD 1 of the Complete Symphonies by Shostakovich performed by The Tartarstan National Symphony under the direction of Alexander Sladkovsky recorded by Melodiya in 2016. This first CD contains symphonies 1and 2. This set has been getting glowing reviews. I have several box sets of the complete symphonies( Rostropovich, Kondrashin, Shostakovich, Barshai and the Melodiya box set which has a selection of conductors in the mix)and some individual symphonies on LP conducted by Haitink, Mravinsky, Rozhdestvensky and Karajan.
I have seen two versions of a Carlos Kleiber's box with official DGG recordings, and I didn't buy it because I already own almost all of them. A "big" box could be more interesting (there are many unofficial live recordings, available as bootlegs... among which a nice Berg's Wozzeck), also if the problem of redundant official cds would remain.
Carl Orff/Gunild Keetman Weihnachtsgeschichte - Alpenländische Weihnachtslieder Tölzer Knabenchor, Collegium Pro Musica Innsbruck, Hammerauer Musikanten, Gerhard Schmidt-Gaden
Ludwig van Beethoven - Missa Solemnis Op.123 Margaret Price - Gundula Janowitz - Christa Ludwig - Wieslaw Ochman - Martti Talvela Konzertvereinigung Wiener Staatsopernchor Wiener Philharmoniker / Karl Böhm