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I predict you'll be pounding several tables to pieces with that set.

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Look out, it could get Bad Addictive.  Though I imagine you know this already and have already collected Schubert the way I should have: more singles, less sets.  However, I remember at least a couple GMG old hands saying the completism impulse for Schubert was much stronger for them than even the comparable Beethoven sonatas temptation.

Actually, Schubert doesn't connect with me that strongly, which is why I've gone this long without a complete set, and even the later sonatas don't have that much representation in my inventory--Lupu, Lewis, Brendel,  Uchida are all I have, or at least all I remember having at the moment.    Add Fray's recording for the non sonata works (with a healthy doses for the same works from the four already mentioned)  and Eschenbach and partner whose name I don't remember for the four handed/two piano works, and possibly some odds and ends included on recital CDs, and that's probably it.

And if the completism bug strikes for Schubert--well how many pianists have recorded complete cycles of his piano works? Or even just complete sonata cycles? 

Among composers for the piano, it's only Chopin and Debussy, alongside Beethoven,  who tempt me to completism.  And even with all three of those,  it's a rather subdued completism that comes and goes and is content not to have every single recording issued since 1901.

[Parsifal]

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I like that one, originally Beyer recordings, if I recall correctly.

[Opus106]

And if the completism bug strikes for Schubert--well how many pianists have recorded complete cycles of his piano works? Or even just complete sonata cycles? 

AFAIK, for the sonatas: Kempff, Uchida, Schiff, Endres, Badura-Skoda (twice?), Bilson, Klein and Dalberto; Lewis might, some day. One may be able to construct partial sets out of what Richter and Brendel, for example, have recorded. And there are probably those about whom only Todd knows.

[Parsifal]

AFAIK, for the sonatas: Kempff, Uchida, Schiff, Endres, Badura-Skoda (twice?), Bilson, Klein and Dalberto; Lewis might, some day. One may be able to construct partial sets out of what Richter and Brendel, for example, have recorded. And there are probably those about whom only Todd knows.

It depends on what you mean by "complete" since there are lots of fragments.  But Brendel's 70's cycle is pretty complete, and there is Zacharias

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[Wakefield]

AFAIK, for the sonatas: Kempff, Uchida, Schiff, Endres, Badura-Skoda (twice?), Bilson, Klein and Dalberto; Lewis might, some day. One may be able to construct partial sets out of what Richter and Brendel, for example, have recorded. And there are probably those about whom only Todd knows.

I own all of them, just excepting Endres which I have listened to, but I don't like. Additionally, I have the extensive recordings by Jan Vermeulen (pianoforte), Christian Zacharias  and John Damgaard. 

Navneeth's list is a good approach, but I'm pretty sure some additional names could be added: Georges Pludermacher, Gerhard Oppitz and some others.

IMO, people buying the great Badura-Skoda set should hear the sound of some pianofortes used there because I'm sure it won't be of general taste. 

[Wakefield]

It depends on what you mean by "complete" since there are lots of fragments.  But Brendel's 70's cycle is pretty complete, and there is Zacharias

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AFAIK, Brendel always refused to record the early sonatas, so his cycles (even considering only the sonatas) never were "complete".

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I own all of them, just excepting Endres which I have listened to, but I don't like. Additionally, I have the extensive recordings by Jan Vermeulen (pianoforte), Christian Zacharias  and John Damgaard. 

Navneeth's list is a good approach, but I'm pretty sure some additional names could be added: Georges Pludermacher, Gerhard Oppitz and some others.

IMO, people buying the great Badura-Skoda set should hear the sound of some pianofortes used there because I'm sure it won't be of general taste.

I have Bilson, Badura-Skoda, Vermeulen I and most of Vermeulen II on pianoforte. I completely agree about Badura's PF's. Who knows if you will even like a Turkish pedal, for example. I know it blew ME away! 

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Who knows if you will even like a Turkish pedal, for example. I know it blew ME away! 

FWIW, I recently bought Staier's recording of Op. 120 just for the opening of Var. 23.

[kishnevi]

AFAIK, for the sonatas: Kempff, Uchida, Schiff, Endres, Badura-Skoda (twice?), Bilson, Klein and Dalberto; Lewis might, some day. One may be able to construct partial sets out of what Richter and Brendel, for example, have recorded. And there are probably those about whom only Todd knows.

Well, I'm blessed.  The Uchida box I was thinking of was not her Schubert recordings, but her Mozart! So I have no Uchida in Schubert.   I smell another Schubert purchase coming in the near future, then.   Or maybe Schiff, or Kempff. or Zacharias....Anyone who wants to pipe up with a decided preference is welcome.  (I've already got the Brendel performances Parsifal refers to.)

[Parsifal]

AFAIK, Brendel always refused to record the early sonatas, so his cycles (even considering only the sonatas) never were "complete".

Brendel starts with D537, which is the same starting point as the Uchida set, I believe.  Unlike Kempff, he does not include fragments or unfinished sonatas.

On a related note, what I wouldn't give for a copy of this disc, long out of print and almost impossible to find used.

[Wakefield]

Ordered today from Presto Classical:

JS Bach: Cantatas for Ascension Day (SDG), Gardiner & his people

Music & Arts - JS Bach: French Suites Nos. 1-6, BWV812-817, Colin Tilney

Onyx - JS Bach: Concertos, Mullova, Accademia Bizantina

Accent - Mozart: Piano Concertos Nos. 20 & 21, Arthur Schoonderwoerd, Cristofori

Accent - Mozart: Piano Concertos Nos. 18 & 19, Arthur Schoonderwoerd, Cristofori

Aeon - Fitzwilliam Virginal Book, Jovanka Marville

Accent - Haydn: The Creation, Kuijken, La Petite Bande, Collegium Vocale Gent

Harmonia Mundi - Mozart: Keyboard Music Volume 4, Kristian Bezuidenhout     

Harmonia Mundi - Mozart: Keyboard Music Volume 3, Kristian Bezuidenhout   

Carpe Diem - Sweelinck: Fortune My Foe, Alina Rotaru

Carpe Diem - Froberger: Suites & Toccatas, Alina Rotaru

[Opus106]

On a related note, what I wouldn't give for a copy of this disc, long out of print and almost impossible to find used.

You could part with £15 for a used copy.

http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/B0000A1M8A/?tag=goodmusicguideco-21

Aeon - Fitzwilliam Virginal Book, Jovanka Marville

I thought you already had that one. I remember because, while searching about her creds, I came across one or two of your enthusiastic posts about her disc.

[Wakefield]

I thought you already had that one. I remember because, while searching about her creds, I came across one or two of your enthusiastic posts about her disc.

No, it was her first recording I listened to, but via NML before I was tired of paying a monthly charge of $30. I also have a physical copy, but I prefer remain silent about it. 

[Parsifal]

You could part with £15 for a used copy.

http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/B0000A1M8A/?tag=goodmusicguideco-21

You're right, I didn't search exhaustively for re-releases, but that one is only half of the original 2CD set.  For both discs, I'm still looking at $399.99.   

[Octave]

re: Duruflé REQUIEM++ on Apex, dir. by Duruflé himself:

Oddly, the last one refused to scan and I was unable to import it into iTunes, but it played fine on my regular CD player. 

Sounds like intrusive Warner DRM.  I wish whoever engineered that copy protection had at least not gone overboard and made it impossible to enjoy playback on a computer drive, never mind the ripping.  Surely that small option could have been provided for.   
Corporate obliviousness.  "Why would they ever need to play a CD in a computer drive?  Let them use dedicated players or nothing at all!"

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I don't know if there's time to cancel, or if it matters to you, but that whole set is included in a 15cd from Brilliant which is out later this month (at least in Europe), which also includes the Stamitz Quartet's Janacek, Martinu, and Smetana string quartets recordings.  The last time I checked, it was available for pre-order from Amazon UK and Presto, but no listing at all at Amazon US.


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