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[Madiel]

Every CD in this set has a separate booklet explaining in detail the pieces that are recorded. I found it to be quite adequate.

Great, thank you. Some of the booklets for the separate albums are available online, and I've found those explanations very interesting. Especially when they explain things like how pieces in op.99 or op.124 have their origins in ideas for earlier pieces, or how Schumann originally planned pieces together but then separated them. I didn't want to get the box and discover all of that information was gone!

[vers la flamme]

Dirt cheap copies on eBay at the moment. I like Jean-Efflam, and not just for his cool double barreled name.

[Dry Brett Kavanaugh]

Dirt cheap copies on eBay at the moment. I like Jean-Efflam, and not just for his cool double barreled name.

As for Bartok PCs, personally, Gyogy Sandor (Sony, not Vox) and Kovacevich sound good to me. Also, I like the old recordings of Anton Dikov though the sound quality is merely acceptable. If you don't need all the 3 PCs, the PC no.3 plus VC by Karel Ancerl would be a good choice.

[Brahmsian]

As for Bartok PCs, personally, Gyogy Sandor (Sony, not Vox) and Kovacevich sound good to me. Also, I like the old recordings of Anton Dikov though the sound quality is merely acceptable. If you don't need all the 3 PCs, the PC no.3 plus VC by Karel Ancerl would be a good choice.

I like Kovacevich as well.

[Wanderer]

Not talking about this for the first time, but Florian Uhlig's Schumann set, as a box.



I'm interested in the presentation of the box. Does it have a good booklet with all of the essays of the separate volumes? Or is it just the separate volumes in a case?

This might have been discussed before, but I can't find the discussion.

I'm pretty sure that @Harry bought it. Anyone else?

The set I was sent from jpc.de (ordered when it first came out last year) consisted of all the separate CD volumes, with their big plastic cases, booklets and all, in a cardboard case. The type that takes as much space as buying all the CD volumes separately. Recently, however (at a FNAC in Paris, if the location makes any difference in packaging), I saw it (re?-)packaged as a "normal", very much smaller boxset (with sleeve-type envelopes for the CD's - possibly just one booklet for everything).

[Harry]

The set I was sent from jpc.de (ordered when it first came out last year) consisted of all the separate CD volumes, with their big plastic cases, booklets and all, in a cardboard case. The type that takes as much space as buying all the CD volumes separately. Recently, however (at a FNAC in Paris, if the location makes any difference in packaging), I saw it (re?-)packaged as a "normal", very much smaller boxset (with sleeve-type envelopes for the CD's - possibly just one booklet for everything).

Some time ago I started with double sided plastic sleeves, in which 2 CD's will easily fit plus the booklet, and the backside art. Imported them from the States and more than halves the Schumann box. A reduction in space of about 75%, which is considerable. I have since 10 years experience with these sleeves, so you may safely buy them without hesitation, if your aim is to reduce the space needed for your CD collection.

[Madiel]

The set I was sent from jpc.de (ordered when it first came out last year) consisted of all the separate CD volumes, with their big plastic cases, booklets and all, in a cardboard case. The type that takes as much space as buying all the CD volumes separately. Recently, however (at a FNAC in Paris, if the location makes any difference in packaging), I saw it (re?-)packaged as a "normal", very much smaller boxset (with sleeve-type envelopes for the CD's - possibly just one booklet for everything).

Well in fact JPC has 2 different listings for the same thing, and the pictures for them look different.

This one looks quite fat, with writing on the top: https://www.jpc.de/jpcng/classic/detail/-/art/robert-schumann-saemtliche-klavierwerke/hnum/10972095

This one looks thinner: https://www.jpc.de/jpcng/classic/detail/-/art/robert-schumann-saemtliche-klavierwerke/hnum/11056861

I thought it was bit odd, and the 2 listings are the same price. But also, if you look carefully one says it is 19 CDs, and the other says it's 19 CDs and a CD-ROM. So I suspect the thinner one is where you don't get the full printed booklets and the information gets moved to the CD-ROM.

For JPC it's not clear if the "limited edition" with full booklets will even be available. But at least now I'm aware there are 2 alternative versions.

[Wanderer]

Well in fact JPC has 2 different listings for the same thing, and the pictures for them look different.

This one looks quite fat, with writing on the top: https://www.jpc.de/jpcng/classic/detail/-/art/robert-schumann-saemtliche-klavierwerke/hnum/10972095

This one looks thinner: https://www.jpc.de/jpcng/classic/detail/-/art/robert-schumann-saemtliche-klavierwerke/hnum/11056861

I thought it was bit odd, and the 2 listings are the same price. But also, if you look carefully one says it is 19 CDs, and the other says it's 19 CDs and a CD-ROM. So I suspect the thinner one is where you don't get the full printed booklets and the information gets moved to the CD-ROM.

For JPC it's not clear if the "limited edition" with full booklets will even be available. But at least now I'm aware there are 2 alternative versions.

The one in the first link is the big one I have, with full-size plastic CD cases and all the booklets. The one in the second link, with the CD-ROM, is the small one I saw in Paris.

[Wanderer]

Some time ago I started with double sided plastic sleeves, in which 2 CD's will easily fit plus the booklet, and the backside art. Imported them from the States and more than halves the Schumann box. A reduction in space of about 75%, which is considerable. I have since 10 years experience with these sleeves, so you may safely buy them without hesitation, if your aim is to reduce the space needed for your CD collection.

What brand are these, Harry? I would be interested in something like that eventually, but not if I had to import them from outside the EU. The cost (not to mention re-packaging and storing effort) involved would be considerable. If that's the case even with an intra-EU solution, I'll probably feel I'd rather buy more music. 😉

[Harry]

What brand are these, Harry? I would be interested in something like that eventually, but not if I had to import them from outside the EU. The cost (not to mention re-packaging and storing effort) involved would be considerable. If that's the case even with an intra-EU solution, I'll probably feel I'd rather buy more music. 😉

Just google CD sleeves on internet, for I forgot which company. I will try to dig the invoice if interested. They changed hands quite a few times. They are only to be got in the USA, in Europe they have only single sleeves and they are a nuisance. Yes the costs are considerably importing them, but I replaced all the jewel discs, thus I ordered 3000 sleeves. An investment yes, but I gained almost 75% of shelve space. I hired my grandchildren to change them from jewel cases to plastic sleeves   But yes you could get a lot of music for that money, but less shelve space

[Mandryka]

If anyone has it and can share it with me, that would be wonderful. If anyone has it and won't share it with me, then that would be less wonderful. If anyone has heard it and can comment on the sound or performance, that would be helpful.

[prémont]

As for Bartok PCs, personally, Gyogy Sandor (Sony, not Vox) and Kovacevich sound good to me. Also, I like the old recordings of Anton Dikov though the sound quality is merely acceptable. If you don't need all the 3 PCs, the PC no.3 plus VC by Karel Ancerl would be a good choice.

I prefer Sandor's Vox recordings of the concerti as well as of the piano solo music despite the dated sound. In my opinion Sandor is the Bartok interpreter par excellence.

[Dry Brett Kavanaugh]

I prefer Sandor's Vox recordings of the concerti as well as of the piano solo music despite the dated sound. In my opinion Sandor is the Bartok interpreter par excellence.

Both the recordings sound vg to me. As for orchestra, I think the Hungarian/Adam Fischer (Sony) is better than the Vienna (Vox). For piano, Sandor/Sony sounds more gentle and nuanced. Sandor/Vox is stronger with big fat tone, which sounds very attractive to me. Hard choice.

[Mandryka]

If anyone has it and can share it with me, that would be wonderful. If anyone has it and won't share it with me, then that would be less wonderful. If anyone has heard it and can comment on the sound or performance, that would be helpful.

I have this now, and indeed a Chopin CD he made in Japan with op 58. First impressions of the etudes are that they are less highly strung and less about transcendental virtuosity than his later recording. I keep noticing moments of tenderness and humanity which I never noticed on the Chandos CDs.  But I've only just got the set so I may be wrong about that.

If anyone wants either of these two recordings they can PM me and I'll sort an upload out.

I'm going to hear him soon in concert playing duets with  FF Guy.

[Mandryka]

[Dry Brett Kavanaugh]

Some reviews:

https://pianopassage.jp/posts/post-31687/

https://www.hmv.co.jp/en/artist_Bach-1685-1750_000000000002339/item_-Piano-Well-tempered-Clavier-Book-2-El-Bacha-P-2SACD-Hybrid_5882894

https://www.hmv.co.jp/en/artist_%E3%83%90%E3%83%83%E3%83%8F%EF%BC%881685-1750%EF%BC%89_000000000002339/item_%E5%B9%B3%E5%9D%87%E5%BE%8B%E3%82%AF%E3%83%A9%E3%83%B4%E3%82%A3%E3%83%BC%E3%82%A2%E6%9B%B2%E9%9B%86%E7%AC%AC%EF%BC%91%E5%B7%BB-%E3%82%A8%E3%83%AB%EF%BC%9D%E3%83%90%E3%82%B7%E3%83%A3%EF%BC%88%EF%BC%92%EF%BC%B3%EF%BC%A1%EF%BC%A3%EF%BC%A4%EF%BC%89_3961476

[Mapman]

I was impressed by a performance of Coleridge-Taylor's Ballade today. Does anyone here like (or dislike) this recent release?

[JBS]

I was impressed by a performance of Coleridge-Taylor's Ballade today. Does anyone here like (or dislike) this recent release?

Definitely like it.

[vers la flamme]

Really wanting to check out some full recordings of Rossini's operas. Anyone care to recommend any good ones?

Here is one I'm considering:



https://i.postimg.cc/8CLv0X4F/barbiere.jpg

[JBS]

Really wanting to check out some full recordings of Rossini's operas. Anyone care to recommend any good ones?

Here is one I'm considering:



https://i.postimg.cc/8CLv0X4F/barbiere.jpg

Abbado is fairly solid in all of the comic operas, but frankly there are so many recordings of TBoS that almost any you pick would be a good one.
That said, there's enough action on stage in TBoS that a DVD might be the best bet.