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[Karl Henning]

Oh, gosh, and I missed this delicious typo (not faulting you!)—

Le Martyre sans maitre

[Karl Henning]

Your whetting my appetite...that's me hoping a only a couple of days ago I wouldn't feel the need to buy any further big boxes...but this, at 18 €, doesn't qualify, n'est ce pas? 

No, this is too modest a set to consider a Big Box!

[ritter]

Oh, gosh, and I missed this delicious typo (not faulting you!)—

Le Martyre sans maitre - très drôle! 

IDepending upon cost, of course.

18 € pre-order at jpc...

[kishnevi]

I will definitely get it.  I may have the Ives in a different performance, ditto for Agon, and Marteau in two other recordings.... but I do not think I have even heard a note of any of the others. Which tells you how little music of those schools I listen to.

Definitely a good anthology, although they might have made it better...there is no Glass, Reich, Part, Carter....

ETA Wait, I have one of the Feldman works, it being on the CD I got the other week. Misread the box at first, and thought Ichiyanagi was the title of a work by Feldman, not another composer's name.

[Karl Henning]

But I think the Brandeis chorus will be worth hearing in Christian Wolff in Cambridge.

[Brian]

Speaking of cheap Sony boxes being released in May:

[Brian]

For those who need this box:



That's four regular Naxos CDs and an interview CD - interviews with both conductor AND composer.

Finally, a 23 CD box:



JPC track listing

Beethoven: Missa solemnis op. 123; Symphonie Nr. 3 "Eroica"
+Schubert: Symphonien Nr. 8 "Unvollendete" & Nr. 9 "Große"; Rosamunde D. 797
+Berg: 3 Orchesterstücke op. 6
+Webern: 6 Orchesterstücke op. 6
+Schönberg: 5 Orchesterstücke op. 16
+Berlioz: Requiem op. 5; Le Corsaire-Ouvertüre op. 21; Benvenuto Cellini-Ouvertüre op. 23; Le Carnaval Romain-Ouvertüre op. 9; Symphonie fantastique op. 14; Chasse royale et orage aus Les Troyens
+Brahms: Symphonien Nr. 1-4; Alt-Rhapsodie op. 53; Tragische Ouvertüre op. 81
+Saint-Saens: Symphonie Nr. 3 "Orgelsymphonie"
+Dukas: Der Zauberlehrling
+Dvorak: Symphonien Nr. 8 & 9
+Haydn: Die Schöpfung
+Holst: The Planets op. 32
+Mahler: Das Lied von der Erde
+Mozart: Serenaden Nr. 9 "Posthorn" & Nr. 13 "Eine kleine Nachtmusik"
+Mussorgsky: Bilder einer Ausstellung
+Strawinsky: Le Sacre du Printemps
+Prokofeff: Symphonien Nr. 1 & 5
+Schumann: Symphonien Nr. 1 & 4; Manfred-Ouvertüre op. 115
+Sibelius: Finlandia op. 26; Valse triste op. 44; Symphonie Nr. 2
+Strauss: Don Quixote op. 35; Tod und Verklärung op. 24

[Todd]

Speaking of cheap Sony boxes being released in May:

We're now in the era of full-on catalog dumping.  The death knell of optical media is loud.

[Karl Henning]

Brian, you are an awful friend!  That Berglund/Nielsen box is a sore temptation . . . .

[king ubu]

So the Kraus is yet another than what's in the Erato box?

[Todd]

So the Kraus is yet another than what's in the Erato box?

Yes, it is the later, stereo cycle.  The mono cycle is better.

[Gurn Blanston]

We're now in the era of full-on catalog dumping.  The death knell of optical media is loud.

Yes, but you know, the labels make that a self-fulfilling prophecy also: you don't want CD's anymore, you want downloads and streams, so we will dump what we have and they will all go away. Of course, their polls include only the demographic for which this is true...

[king ubu]

Yes, it is the later, stereo cycle.  The mono cycle is better.

Très bien, merci. Guess I can skip that one then.

[Todd]

Très bien, merci. Guess I can skip that one then.

Probably, but when I say it is better I mean that the mono cycle is one of the greatest cycles ever recorded and that the stereo cycle is merely great.

[king ubu]

I see - will think about it, but I guess I really have enough Mozart sonata cycles for now.

[Holden]

Where's K533?

[prémont]

Brian, you are an awful friend!  That Berglund/Nielsen box is a sore temptation . . . .

For me too. 

[Daverz]

We're now in the era of full-on catalog dumping.  The death knell of optical media is loud.

If these really are 24-bit remasters, then I don't think Sony can be accused of "dumping".   I'll probably pick up the Serkin box, since I don't have the solo items. 

[Todd]

If these really are 24-bit remasters, then I don't think Sony can be accused of "dumping".

I didn't really mean it in a pejorative sense.  I love the dirt cheap boxes.  I take the remastering claims with a grain of salt.  Sometimes the new masterings sound better, sometimes modestly worse (eg, the Serkin '57 Diabelli), and most of the time I have not been able to tell a difference. 

[Mirror Image]

That Berglund/Nielsen box is a sore temptation . . . .

And it's quite good as well as I own the Japanese import of it.