Box Blather

[Spotted Horses]

The number of Dorati boxes issued and that will be issued make me ask if there is any duplication. Are all boxes unique? If not, is there a way to know which discs are duplicated?

I'm sure there is no duplication among the eloquence releases. The great majority of the stereo Dorati recordings were released in the original MlP I, II and III boxes.

[Florestan]

philharmonica hungeenica.   

Ah, the marvels of auto-correct! Hunica would have been closer, though not much.. 

[Brian]

May

[Madiel]

Drop that from a bridge and you could kill someone.

[lordlance]

Drop that from a bridge and you could kill someone.

79 ain't that much for a classical box set. Now the Bach333 or Complete DG/Decca Karajan on the other hand...

[Madiel]

79 ain't that much for a classical box set. Now the Bach333 or Complete DG/Decca Karajan on the other hand...

Ah, but even picking those up in order to drop them might be a real challenge.

[Brian]

"Thomas Beecham: Complete Stereo Recordings" is coming in a 35 CD box set from Warner this summer.

[Der lächelnde Schatten]

"Thomas Beecham: Complete Stereo Recordings" is coming in a 35 CD box set from Warner this summer.

Oh dear...just when I vowed not to buy any more CDs. Lord, please help me.

[JBS]

Oh dear...just when I vowed not to buy any more CDs. Lord, please help me.

You've got all the Delius recordings already. That's probably 1/3 of the box right there.

(So do I. Plus his Schubert and Grieg and I'll have to see what else.)

ETA

The Warner Beecham Delius budget box is 7 CDs. So we have 1/5 of this new set.

[Der lächelnde Schatten]

You've got all the Delius recordings already. That's probably 1/3 of the box right there.

(So do I. Plus his Schubert and Grieg and I'll have to see what else.)

Yeah, besides the Delius, I've got his Grieg and Rimsky-Korsakov. But, as you said, we'll have to see what is all there. If I'm mistaken there is Puccini La bohème there, but it's mid-50s, so I'm not sure if it is stereo or not. And I know he made some 'French lollipop' recordings, too, but I'm not sure how many of those are in stereo.

[Brian]

And I know he made some 'French lollipop' recordings, too, but I'm not sure how many of those are in stereo.

About 4-5 CDs worth...cuz I've got that EMI box (which is six CDs but has some mono stuff sprinkled in)

[JBS]

Yeah, besides the Delius, I've got his Grieg and Rimsky-Korsakov. But, as you said, we'll have to see what is all there. If I'm mistaken there is Puccini La bohème there, but it's mid-50s, so I'm not sure if it is stereo or not. And I know he made some 'French lollipop' recordings, too, but I'm not sure how many of those are in stereo.

The Boheme is mono. I have those French recordings, I'll have to dig them out to see what's what.

[Der lächelnde Schatten]

About 4-5 CDs worth...cuz I've got that EMI box (which is six CDs but has some mono stuff sprinkled in)

The Boheme is mono. I have those French recordings, I'll have to dig them out to see what's what.

Ah okay, thanks for the information, gentlemen.

[lordlance]

Any artwork available for the box yet, @Brian? 

[André]

You've got all the Delius recordings already. That's probably 1/3 of the box right there.

(So do I. Plus his Schubert and Grieg and I'll have to see what else.)

ETA

The Warner Beecham Delius budget box is 7 CDs. So we have 1/5 of this new set.

Not really. Only one of the seven discs is in stereo. That new 35cd set is of Beecham's stereo recordings only - if that's what it is. I'm surprised there's that many stereo recordings to start with. Beecham made stereo recordings from 1955 to 1960 in London and 1958-59 in Paris. That's an average of 6 cds a year minimum.

[JBS]

Not really. Only one of the seven discs is in stereo. That new 35cd set is of Beecham's stereo recordings only - if that's what it is. I'm surprised there's that many stereo recordings to start with. Beecham made stereo recordings from 1955 to 1960 in London and 1958-59 in Paris. That's an average of 6 cds a year minimum.

To quantify it--
I have the 6 CD set of French music, plus two matching sets devoted to Haydn/Mozart, and to 19th Century music (Beethoven to R Strauss). Out of 24 CDs total, 18 CDs worth are recordings from 1955 and later, 6 CDs worth are recordings from the 1930s/1940s.
(For some reason the track listings don't specify which are mono and which are stereo, but leave us to work it out from the dates.)
There was a a fourth set in the series, devoted to British music, which I didn't get because it had too many Delius recordings I already had.
The two composers among those sets for whom there were no or very few stereo recordings are Mozart and R Strauss. There are also two Berlioz overtures, Chabrier's Espana, and Massenet's Last Sleep of the Virgin, that are in mono.  All the other recordings of French music dates to the 1950s as does all the Haydn and all the 19th century stuff other than R Strauss. Of four CDs devoted to Mozart, about 3 1/2 are mono.

[Brian]

via the gang at the Steve Hoffman board. Disc 11 has one of the weirdest programs I have ever, ever seen.



Sir Thomas Beecham, Complete Stereo Recordings on Warner Classics

Disc 1: Sibelius
01 The Oceanides Op 73
02 Symphony No 7
06 Pelleas Et Melisande Op 46

Disc 2: Schubert, Grieg
01 Symphony No. 6
05 In Autumn Op 11
06 Old Norwegian Romance with Variations Op 51

Disc 3: Beethoven, Borodin
01 Symphony 1
05 Polovtsian Dances

Disc 4-5: Handel
01 Solomon

Disc 6: Brahms
01 Hyperions Schicksalslied Op 54
04 Academic Festival Overture Op 80
05 Lord How Long Psalm Xiii
06 Look On Me Psalm Xiii
07 But I Have Trusted Psalm Xiii
08 I Will To God Psalm Xiii

Disc 7: Mozart
01 Symphony 41 K551
05 Divertimento No 2 In D K131
10 Symphony No 41 In C Major K 551 Jupiter

Disc 8-9: Mozart
01 Die Entführung Aus Dem Serail K 384

Disc 10: Beethoven
01 Symphony 2, Op 36
05 The Ruins of Athens Incidental Music Op 113

Disc 11: Bizet, Sibelius, Fauré, Delius, Dvořák, Rachmaninov
01 L'Arlésienne Suite
09 Tapiola Op 112
10 Pavane Op 50
11 3 Small Tone Poems No 1 Summer Evening
12 Irmelin Prelude
13 Legends Op 59
14 Symphonic Dances Op 64

Disc 12: Delius
01 Brigg Fair
24 A Song Before Sunrise
25 Marche Caprice
26 On Hearing the First Cuckoo in Spring
27 Summer Night on the River
28 Sleigh Ride
29 Intermezzo from Fennimore and Gerda

Disc 13: Delius
01 Florida Suite
05 A Dance Rhapsody
06 Over the Hills and Far Away

Disc 14: Delius, Grieg
01 Songs of Sunset
09 Peer Gynt

Disc 15-16: Haydn
01 The Seasons

Disc 17: Handel (arr. Beecham)
01 Love in Bath

Disc 18: Rimsky-Korsakov
01 Scheherazade

Disc 19: von Suppe, Sibelius, Berlioz, Mozart, Saint_Saens, Debussy, Chabrier
01 Dichter Und Bauer
02 Valse Triste
03 La Chasse Royale
04 March In D K249
05 Le Rouet d'Omphale
06 Prélude à l'après-midi d'un faune
07 Danse Des Sylphes
08 Joyeuse Marche

Disc 20: Berlioz, Debussy, Saint-Saëns, Tchaikovsky, Mozart, Gounod,
01 Menuet Des Follets, la Damnation De Faust
02 Cortege Et Air, L'enfant prodigue
03 Danse Des Pretresses, Samson Et Dalila
04 Bacchanale, Samson Et Dalila
05 Valse, Eugene Onegin
06 Thamos Konig In Agypten K345
07 Le Sommeil De Juliette, Romeo Et Juliette
08 Marche Troyenne, Les Troyens
09 Andante from Symphony 4, Op 36

Disc 21: Fauré, Bizet
01 Dolly Suite Op 56
07 Suite from Carmen
11 Symphony

Disc 22: Liszt
01 A Faust Symphony S108
04 Orpheus

Disc 23: Richard Strauss, Liszt
01 Ein Heldenleben
08 A Faust Symphony Finale Rehearsal
09 Orpheus S 98 Rehearsal

Disc 24: Beethoven
01 Mass Op 86

Disc 25: Handel (arr. Beecham), Mozart, Rossini, Haydn
01 The Gods Go A'Begging
10 Amaryllis Suite
12 The Arrival of the Queen of Sheba, from Solomon
13 Die Entfuhrung Aus Dem Serail K 384 Overture
14 Semiramide Overture
15 English National Anthem God Save The Queen
16 The Gods Go A'Begging Rehearsal Sequence
17 Symphony No 97

Disc 26: Haydn
01 Symphony No 99
05 Symphony No 100
09 Symphony No 103
13 Symphony No 100 Rehearsal

Disc 27: Haydn
01 Symphony No 101
05 Symphony No 102
09 Symphony No 104

Disc 28: Schubert
01 Symphony No 3 D200
05 Symphony No 5 D485

Disc 29: Mozart, Haydn
01 Basson Concerto
04 Clarinet Concerto
07 Symphony No 104 "London" Rehearsal

Disc 30-31: Bizet
01 Carmen

Disque 32: Beethoven
01 Symphony No 7 Op 92
05 Symphony No 2 Op 73

Disc 33: Rossini, Mendelsohn, Schubert, Adam, Verdi (arr. Beecham)
01 La Gazza Ladra Ouverture
02 A Midsummer Night S Dream Opp 21 and 61
03 La Cambiale Di Matrimonio Ouverture
04 Die Schone Melusine Op 32
05 Le Corsaire Op21
06 Le roi s'amuse

Disque 34: Berlioz
01 Symphonie Fantastique Op14

Disc 35: Bizet, Lalo
01 Symphony Ut Maj
05 Symphony Sol Min

[Brian]

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