complete editions- Box sets

[Que]

Currently, 5 of the 10 most recently posted threads concern large box sets.   

Even multiple threads on the same set! Isn't it exciting?

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[Don]

Even multiple threads on the same set! Isn't it exciting?

Q 

No, but it's certainly interesting in offering a little profile.

[Lilas Pastia]

Yeah but it's Grieg. Who can stand 21 CDs of Grieg? IT's not Stravinsky or Mahler or Chopin here.

My sentiments exactly. I doubt very much I'd ever hear it all, and most of it only once every blue moon.

The problem with these big boxes is that they tend to stay on the shelves BECAUSE they're too complete. When I scan my shelves I look for something, not everything at once...

[greg]

Here's a Brahms set........
i don't think they had one before, did they?
http://www.amazon.com/BRAHMS-Edition-Complete-Works/dp/B0015XAT0M/ref=pd_sim_m_9


i do see one for a thousand bucks, but that shouldn't count......

[Sorin Eushayson]

Yeah but it's Grieg. Who can stand 21 CDs of Grieg?

*Raises hand.*

[The new erato]

*Raises hand.*

When the going gets tough, the tough gets going!

[Bulldog]

Yeah but it's Grieg. Who can stand 21 CDs of Grieg? IT's not Stravinsky or Mahler or Chopin here.

I doubt I could listen to 21 cds of Grieg.  However, that would apply to any and all composers excepting Bach.

[Bulldog]

The problem with these big boxes is that they tend to stay on the shelves BECAUSE they're too complete. When I scan my shelves I look for something, not everything at once...

I have zero interest in complete editions; would involve a great deal of duplication of material I don't want multiple copies of.

[marvinbrown]

The problem with these big boxes is that they tend to stay on the shelves BECAUSE they're too complete. When I scan my shelves I look for something, not everything at once...

  A very interesting psychological observation Lilas  and one that I can relate to with one notable exception of course:  When it comes to Wagner   0:) I want it all, at once, and I want it now   ! 

marvin

[Sorin Eushayson]

Any word on *complete* Haydn, Handel, or Vivaldi editions?  I have heard reports of Haydn and Handel in the works, but when I try to find proof I come up short. 

[Bogey]

Love my Mozart set Greg.  Not all are the best recordings to be had, maybe none of them.  But, it is great to have when you see a piece posted here on the board, or read about it in a book and be able to go right to that piece and play it.  I am sure I will also get the Beethoven and Haydn sets down the road as well. 

[greg]

Well, at less than a dollar a CD.......... i'll have to get it, too, one day 

[Bogey]

Well, at less than a dollar a CD.......... i'll have to get it, too, one day 

There's that too.

[Lethevich]

Any word on *complete* Haydn, Handel, or Vivaldi editions?  I have heard reports of Haydn and Handel in the works, but when I try to find proof I come up short. 

Any complete Haydn set will hinge on whether Decca allows their opera recordings to be licenced or not. I can't see one happening without those being involved. I also heard about Brilliant being interested in a Haydn box, so I presume talks have or will happen.

[Anne]

Any word on *complete* Haydn, Handel, or Vivaldi editions?  I have heard reports of Haydn and Handel in the works, but when I try to find proof I come up short. 

Use Greg's link for Brahms' edition (above on this page here).  Scroll down to section that says, "Customers Who Bought This Item also Bought..."  At this section there are arrows pointing left and right.  Use the right arrow to scroll sideways.  There is a set for Handel there; I don't know if there is a larger set available.  Just keep clicking on the right arrow; there are 16 pages there.

[Sorin Eushayson]

Use Greg's link for Brahms' edition (above on this page here).  Scroll down to section that says, "Customers Who Bought This Item also Bought..."  At this section there are arrows pointing left and right.  Use the right arrow to scroll sideways.  There is a set for Handel there; I don't know if there is a larger set available.  Just keep clicking on the right arrow; there are 16 pages there.

That's for the Masterworks edition.  Haydn, Vivaldi, and Handel all have Masterworks editions out, which are different than Complete editions.

Any complete Haydn set will hinge on whether Decca allows their opera recordings to be licenced or not. I can't see one happening without those being involved. I also heard about Brilliant being interested in a Haydn box, so I presume talks have or will happen.

So the rumours may, indeed, be true...  That's quite... well... Brilliant!

[Wendell_E]

Coming next month:

http://www.mdt.co.uk/MDTSite/pages/product/product.asp?prod=4801333&utm_source=4801333&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=OCTNR08

[greg]

Coming next month:

http://www.mdt.co.uk/MDTSite/pages/product/product.asp?prod=4801333&utm_source=4801333&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=OCTNR08

Didn't they already have one for him? I know Corey sold his before......

[Lethevich]

Didn't they already have one for him? I know Corey sold his before......

That was organ works IIRC, 18 CDs.

Edit: ONO my memory fails me, it seems that the 18 CD one had lots of other stuff. It was just way less complete than this one (which I am gonna have to buy due to its cheapness ;_: ).

[Lethevich]

Ah, I've found the reason why one is 18 discs and one is 32 - the latter contains Saint-François d'Assise