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Dec 13, 2014 - 12:57 AM
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MusicMad
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Rather a lot ...
On my desk there are 5 box sets - ranging from 22 - 60 CDs - which I'm working through, ripping to my NAS:
- Carlo Maria Giulini: The Complete Sony Recordings
- Archiv Produktion 1947 - 2013
- Vivarte 60CD Collection
- Philips Original Jackets Collection
- Claudio Abbado: The Symphony Edition
In the last couple of years my small classical collection has grown significantly ... and my love of this genre: immeasurably!
I've enjoyed the greats, such as Brahms' 4th, Rachmaninov's 3rd piano, Vivaldi's 4 Seasons, Rimsky-Korsakov's Scheherazade, Beethoven's 9th, et al. for many years. But this period of expansion has opened my ears to many other wonderful works and of special note I must mention: Anton Bruckner - not the easiest of listens, all of his symphonies are major affairs, but: Wow! 
Mitch
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I've begun buying these 80-100 CD sets from Amazon. These kind of sets are the best way for the consumer to get volume and the record company to get profits, since cheaper single albums are always out of the question.
My most recent sets:
Bruno Walter: The Edition. I think Columbia realized as the 1950's were waning that the old-school Viennese-Hungarian trained conductors, as well as the many classical musicians migrating to Hollywood, made it an imperative to get this kind of sound preserved. The paucity of this kind of sound in classical music since proves that even big-time record companies have sometimes acted to further mankind's long-term cultural edification.
Ferenc Fricsay: The Complete Recordings on Deutsche Grammophone, Vol. 1. Another Hungarian conductor who wrung the living shit out of every piece he ever got his hands on and then some. The foremost Bartok interpreter of his day, yet also a demanding perfectionist in the standard classical/operatic repertoire. Does anyone know if his La Gazza Ladra overture is the one Stanley Kubrick used in A Clockwork Orange?
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