The Complete Symphonies
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Free Music Review: such a bargain....
Hit: 3 Stars
...no question, enough symphonic greatness to keep most of our feet tapping the rungs of our rocking chairs through the longest retirement! Remarkably cheap, but then, so are supermarket tomatoes and frozen ahi tuna from Trader Joe's! But wouldn't you rather have one plate of heirloom tomatoes dressed with balsamic vinegar than all the gas-ripened globules on every salad bar in every chain restaurant in America?
I haven't heard all these performances. I haven't purchased this box, and I don't plan to. This is a review written on request. I've heard some of the original recordings of some of the symphonies by most of the composers. Right away I can declare the the Blomstedt and Marriner performances fall waaay short of my expectations. The rest are, as much as I've heard of them, proficient and even 'brilliant' enough, and the Haydn and Shostakovich recordings are better than most. None of them, however, would be my first choice for their respective repertoire. In other words, the only thing that really recommends this box is the price.
Free Music Review: Excellent box set
Hit: 5 Stars
I haven't heard the Mozart by Ter Linden yet. It is eleven discs that are part of the Brilliant Classics set that total 170 discs.
The Haydn discs are by Adam Fisher from Nimbus. Seperately they would total $242,if bought by themselves,for all 33 discs or about $120 as a Brilliant classics box alone.
The Beethoven discs(5) are by Blomstedt from Edel Classics Recorded in 1979 they are from the old East German record company.
The Schubert set of four discs is from Roy Goodman on Nimbus.
The Mendelssohn group of three discs is by four different conductors and all are live recordings.
There are two Schumann discs by Neville Marriner from Hanssler Classics.
The Brahms is three discs from Van Zweden and is Dutch.
The Mahler is eleven discs. It in cludes the classic Horenstein third from Unicorn-Kanchana.
The Nielsen is three discs That Brilliant has seperately.
The Shostakovich is eleven discs from Rudolf Barshai.