Big boxes you have yet to get through for the first time

[Coopmv]

I thought it would be interesting to compare notes on big boxes any of us who have yet to get through for the first time.  Let me start ...

  Now listening to CD2 - 18 more CD's to go.
  40 CD's to go
  40 CD's to go
  30 CD's to go
  12 CD's to go (not started)
  13 CD's to go
  24 CD's to go
  25 CD's to go
  12 CD's to go
  14 CD's to go
  Not started
  31 CD's to go

[snyprrr]

Just shaking my head.

[knight66]

You seem to have a compulsion to collect rather than to listen. I am puzzled.

Mike

[mc ukrneal]

Wow!!!!! You've got close to 300 discs to go! That is both daunting and exciting!

[knight66]

Those are just the big boxes not so far listened to. I guess there are quite a few other discs seen but not heard.

Mike

[Lethevich]

I have two -

EMI's Karajan edition vol.1, which I will probably never listen to much of, and was a mistake to purchase.

Naxos's Haydn symphonies, because it was a recent purchase.

[knight66]

The only ones I can think of are from the EMI big vocal box. Probably about 10 discs out of about 70 or so that I don't want to hear; such as a not too hot stereo Trovatore and Flying Dutchman, apart from the overture. I used to have it on LP and did not like the set.
Mike

[Orpheus]

I can't list them...

Maybe a hundred...

[chasmaniac]

I sample this one occasionally, but never could get past its vasty, cavernous reverb. An unhappy purchase for this Haydnisto!

[asin]B0000501PC[/asin]

[springrite]

I have almost no boxsets larger than 6 CDs.

The ones I have not listened to all the way through are all larger than 10, including the Furtwangler RING, The Price set (12 CDs) and a few of the Callas CDs.

[Willoughby earl of Itacarius]

Too many.................

[Karl Henning]

The Bayreuth Cube (over which I knew I should be in no hurry), the Brahms Brilliant Box, the Haydn symphonies, and the Britten collection ... must be close to done with this last.

[Drasko]

Two boxes:

- 200 Years of Music at Versailles
- Works of Igor Stravinsky

halfway through Stravinsky box, less than half through Versailles

[Karl Henning]

Oh, I've also a David Oistrakh box, and boxes of Mahler & Bruckner symphonies which I have yet to complete.

[Que]

Getting through box sets is a familiar problem:

About half of the 200 Years of Music at Versailles box as well.

Still some discs left in the Brilliant Haydn baryton trios set.... 

Naturally, my recently purchased Frescobali keyboard works on Tactus!

I (temporarily) lost my focus on singers, so I barely made a dent in that humongous Maria Callas set  and an Elly Ameling Schubert lieder set on Philips is still untouched.


All in all not so bad, I think.

Q

[Karl Henning]

. . . Naturally, my recently purchased Frescobali keyboard works on Tactus!

Well, but only because the purchase is so recent, I think: I found it an easy box to listen through!

[Elgarian]

I don't quite see those boxes like this. I buy CD boxes in the same way as I buy books: as a resource to last a lifetime. I have a lot of books on my shelves that I haven't read (in the sense of starting at page 1 and proceeding to the end). But most of them have been consulted. It may be that from any particular book, only a few pages have actually been of use to me - but usually those few pages were critical to what I needed to know, or understand, or appreciate, at the time.

So I see the CD boxes in the same light. That wonderful 200 Years at Versailles box, for instance, proved to be one of the most influential music purchases I ever made when it appeared a few years ago, but I think there are still a few CDs in that I haven't listened to yet. I like being surrounded by shelves of unfinished business: an infinite number of pebbles on the beach to be stumbled among, picked up, looked at, and maybe put in my pocket, or dropped back among its fellows.

[The new erato]

I don't quite see those boxes like this. I buy CD boxes in the same way as I buy books: as a resource to last a lifetime. I have a lot of books on my shelves that I haven't read (in the sense of starting at page 1 and proceeding to the end). But most of them have been consulted. It may be that from any particular book, only a few pages have actually been of use to me - but usually those few pages were critical to what I needed to know, or understand, or appreciate, at the time.

So I see the CD boxes in the same light. That wonderful 200 Years at Versailles box, for instance, proved to be one of the most influential music purchases I ever made when it appeared a few years ago, but I think there are still a few CDs in that I haven't listened to yet. I like being surrounded by shelves of unfinished business: an infinite number of pebbles on the beach to be stumbled among, picked up, looked at, and maybe put in my pocket, or dropped back among its fellows.

What a lifesaver. Now I don't have to explain why I have sets containing close to 1000 CDs only briefly dipped into. And as for a lifetime; when the CD is out, no more buying for me. I see some of the frenetic repackaging of discs now going on as a sure sign that much of this music (I'm talking older classics here) won't be available in CD format for many more recyclings. 

[Antoine Marchand]

I don't quite see those boxes like this. I buy CD boxes in the same way as I buy books: as a resource to last a lifetime. I have a lot of books on my shelves that I haven't read (in the sense of starting at page 1 and proceeding to the end). But most of them have been consulted. It may be that from any particular book, only a few pages have actually been of use to me - but usually those few pages were critical to what I needed to know, or understand, or appreciate, at the time.

So I see the CD boxes in the same light. That wonderful 200 Years at Versailles box, for instance, proved to be one of the most influential music purchases I ever made when it appeared a few years ago, but I think there are still a few CDs in that I haven't listened to yet. I like being surrounded by shelves of unfinished business: an infinite number of pebbles on the beach to be stumbled among, picked up, looked at, and maybe put in my pocket, or dropped back among its fellows.

Exactly my own feelings and thoughts on this matter, with one addition: I usually concentrate myself on one specific issue, musically -for instance- Bach and Haydn, but at the same time I freely sail among a lot of books, discs and movies about other themes. 

[Willoughby earl of Itacarius]

Getting through box sets is a familiar problem:

About half of the 200 Years of Music at Versailles box as well.

Still some discs left in the Brilliant Haydn baryton trios set.... 


All in all not so bad, I think.

Q

Well at least I managed to play both boxes twice, but then they are both quite irresistible for me.