New Cheapo Cardboard Sony Box Sets

[MishaK]

I haven't been following new releases very well. Wondering if anyone here knows the complete list of these new cheap Sony box set reissues of Sony and BMG/RCA material, some of which are really excellent stuff. The ones I'm aware of:

Wand - Bruckner Symphonies - Cologne

Levine - Mahler Symphonies - Philadelphia, Cleveland, CSO

Levine - Schumann Symphonies - Philadelphia

Budapest String Quartet - Beethoven Quartets

Barenboim - Schubert Symphonies - BPO

Anything else out there?

[Drasko]

Rubinstein's Brahms, Heifetz Concertos, Reiner's Strauss, Levine's Schumann, Bylsma's Boccherini , Canadian Brass (whatever Canadian Brass plays)

[Opus106]

Quite a few actually. If you search for one of these at Amazon, the rest will appear as suggestions/recommendation on the same page.

Kuijken Bros. - Bach Concerti

Bylsma - Boccherini

Reiner - Strauss stuff

Cliburn - Conerti

Rubinstein - Brahms - Concerti, chamber music and more

...and maybe others which I've missed

Beyond these there are releases with 1 and 2 CDs.

[MishaK]

Quite a few actually. If you search for one of these at Amazon, the rest will appear as suggestions/recommendation on the same page.

Yes, but not all of them. E.g. looking at Wand's Bruckner or Levine's Mahler, I didn't get this suggestion, which I would actually be interested in:

Kuijken Bros. - Bach Concerti

Although I am not finding this one on amazon anywhere. Is this a Euro only release?

Thanks.

[Todd]

Gould's Beethoven.

[Opus106]

Although I am not finding this one on amazon anywhere. Is this a Euro only release?

Thanks.

I think they are all Euro releases, since Amazon.com has the 'Import' tag against their entries, but I could be wrong.

However, here's the link to JPC.


EDIT: Here's the Amazon.com link (found it at .fr, then changed the top-level domain to .com), but I doubt you'd want to buy it from them at this point in time - $106.24.

[MishaK]

I think they are all Euro releases, since Amazon.com has the 'Import' tag against their entries, but I could be wrong.

However, here's the link to JPC.


EDIT: Here's the Amazon.com link (found it at .fr, then changed the top-level domain to .com), but I doubt you'd want to buy it from them at this point in time - $106.24.

Ouch! Yes, not so cheapo. The genius description at Amazon also says it's only a single CD when the cover says 5CD. The jpc price is certainly a lot more reasonable. Thanks.

[Lethevich]

This may be a bit too old (2009), but Weil's Haydn symphonies with Tafelmusik were issued in a 7 CD box with almost no fanfare at the time. It is mislabeled on Amazon UK as just being the Paris set. They did the same for the masses, but they got a reissue on Brilliant a while ago iirc, which makes that somewhat less notable.

[Opus106]

This may be a bit too old (2009), but Weil's Haydn symphonies with Tafelmusik were issued in a 7 CD box with almost no fanfare at the time. It is mislabeled on Amazon UK as just being the Paris set. They did the same for the masses, but they got a reissue on Brilliant a while ago iirc, which makes that somewhat less notable.

They were? Do you have a link?

[Lethevich]

They were? Do you have a link?

It's so OOP that Google's most notable result was from GMG's Harry: link. The current Sony issue (post-Brilliant) is often very cheap anyway.

[Opus106]

It's so OOP that Google's most notable result was from GMG's Harry: link. The current Sony issue (post-Brilliant) is often very cheap anyway.

Oh, okay. Thanks.

[Daverz]

This may be a bit too old (2009), but Weil's Haydn symphonies with Tafelmusik were issued in a 7 CD box with almost no fanfare at the time. It is mislabeled on Amazon UK as just being the Paris set. They did the same for the masses, but they got a reissue on Brilliant a while ago iirc, which makes that somewhat less notable.

I don't think that Haydn Masses set was widely distributed.  In fact, I never saw it at JPC, so it may not have been distributed outside the Netherlands.

[Opus106]

Complete list at one convenient location

[MishaK]

Complete list at one convenient location

Thanks! Good to see Levine's fire-and-brimstone Brahms with the CSO back in print. That's one of the most dramatic Brahms 1's I know. The Abbado Tchaik set is also a fine one. Does anyone know how Maazel's Pittsburgh Sibelius compares to his Vienna cycle on Decca?

[The new erato]

Leinsdorfs Prokofiev is soon to be released, including the Piano and Violin Concertoes (5 or 6 CDs IIRC). Last I checked 13 Euros on the amazon.fr new releases. That price will buy you one disc of Testaments similar issues.

[Scarpia]

Thanks! Good to see Levine's fire-and-brimstone Brahms with the CSO back in print. That's one of the most dramatic Brahms 1's I know. The Abbado Tchaik set is also a fine one. Does anyone know how Maazel's Pittsburgh Sibelius compares to his Vienna cycle on Decca?

Maazel's Pittsburgh Sibelius is my favorite Sibelius cycle.  The audio is fabulous, Pittsburgh plays beautifully and Maazel lets the music breath just as if should, expressive with perfect control of balances.  I also have the Vienna cycle from Maazel but haven't listened to much of it yet.

[MishaK]

Maazel's Pittsburgh Sibelius is my favorite Sibelius cycle.  The audio is fabulous, Pittsburgh plays beautifully and Maazel lets the music breath just as if should, expressive with perfect control of balances.  I also have the Vienna cycle from Maazel but haven't listened to much of it yet.

I'm wondering if it's as scorchingly incisive as the Vienna. I have only 4 & 7 from the VPO cycle, but that has exactly the kind of "ice that would burn you if you touched it"-intensity that I look for in Sibelius.

[Scarpia]

I'm wondering if it's as scorchingly incisive as the Vienna. I have only 4 & 7 from the VPO cycle, but that has exactly the kind of "ice that would burn you if you touched it"-intensity that I look for in Sibelius.

Scorching is not the adjective that comes to mind.  What I enjoyed about it was that it was intense and expressive even in the mezzo-forte sorts of passages, not just in the thundering climaxes and the pianissimos. 

[Dancing Divertimentian]

Leinsdorfs Prokofiev is soon to be released, including the Piano and Violin Concertoes (5 or 6 CDs IIRC). Last I checked 13 Euros on the amazon.fr new releases. That price will buy you one disc of Testaments similar issues.

Wow, great price! Hopefully this will inspire a new wave of interest in these vastly underrated gramophone gems.

It was nice of Testament to initially resurrect these recordings but the prices they charge can be off-putting. Though I suppose licensing doesn't come cheap.

Anyway, good to see these recordings back at a reasonable price-point!

[Daverz]

Complete list at one convenient location

I highly recommend Casadesus's Mozart.  It looks like the Szell Haydn set may include some of the things left out of the previous box.