Masterworks Heritage Collection Sony 28 cds

RiRiIII

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Jul 4, 2013, 4:04:28 AM7/4/13

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A nice box. I noticed it does not include the complete releases in these great series.

http://www.jpc.de/jpcng/classic/detail/-/art/Masterworks-Heritage-Collection-Sony/hnum/1534248

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Masterworks-Heritage-Collection-Various/dp/B00CUPQHT6/ref=lh_ni_t?ie=UTF8&psc=1&smid=A3P5ROKL5A1OLE

1.CD "Michael Rabin & Ossy Renardy - The Early Years" - Werke von Paganini, Sarasate, Wieniawski, Kreisler, Engel, Novacek

2.CD "Eugene Ysaye - Violinist & Conductor" - Werke von Brahms, Chabrier, Dvorak, Faure, Kreisler, Mendelssohn, Schubert, Schumann,
Wieniawski, Vieuxtemps, Wagner, Ysaye, Delibes, Maillart, Massenet

3.CD Liszt: Klavierkonzert Nr. 1;Fantasie über ungarische Volksmelodien;
Ungarische Rhapsodien Nr. 8-11, 13 (Claudio Arrau)

4.& 5.CD "Zino Francescatti - Great Violin Concertos" - Mendelssohn: Violinkonzert op. 64;Bruch: Violinkonzert Nr. 1;Saint-Saens: Violinkonzert Nr. 3;Tschaikowsky: Violinkonzert op. 35;Prokofieff: Violinkonzert Nr. 2;Chausson: Poeme op. 25

6.CD Mahler: Symphonie Nr. 1;Rachmaninoff: Die Toteninsel (Dimitri Mitropoulos)

7.& 8.CD "Fritz Reiner dirigiert das Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra" - Schostakowitsch: Symphonie Nr. 6;Kodaly: Tänze aus Galanta;Weiner: Divertimento für Streicher Nr. 1 op. 20;Bartok: Ungarische Skizze;Kabalewski: Colas Breugnon-Ouvertüre op. 24;Glinka: Kamarinskaja;Mozart: Symphonien Nr. 35 & 40;Beetoven: Symphonie Nr. 2

9.& 10.CD "The Philadelphia Orchestra plays Bach" - Bach: Brandenburgisches Konzert Nr. 5;Bach / Stokowski: Choräle BWV 62, 177, 437;Bach / Ormandy: Toccaten & Fugen BWV 564 & 565;Passacaglia BWV 582;Wachet auf, ruft uns
die Stimme BWV 140;JC Bach: Symphonien op. 18 Nr. 1 & 3;WF Bach: Symphonie F. 65;CPE Bach / Steinberg: Konzert für Orchester D-Dur

11.& 12.CD Schumann: Symphonien Nr. 1-4;Manfred-Ouvertüre (George Szell)

13.CD "Leonard Bernstein dirigiert das New York Philharmonic Orchestra" - Roussel: Symphonie Nr. 3;Milhaud: Les Choephores;Honegger: Rugby;Pacific 231

14.CD "Thomas Schippers dirigiert" - Barber: Adagio for Strings;Medea's Dance of Vengeance;School for Scandal-Ouvertüre;Essay for Orchestra Nr. 2;Intermezzo aus Vanessa;Andromache's Farewell;Menotti: Amelia al ballo-Ouvertüre;Berg: Zwischenspiel aus Wozzeck;d'Indy: Einleitung zu Fervaal

15.-18.CD Beethoven: Streichquartette Nr. 1, 4,6, 9,12-16 (Budapest String Quartet)

19. CD "Gregor Piatigorsky - Great Cello Concertos" - Dvorak: Cellokonzert op. 104;Saint-Saens: Cellokonzert op. 33;Bruch: Kol Nidrei

20.CD "George Szell dirigiert" - Prokofieff: Symphonie Nr. 5;Bartok: Konzert für Orchester

21.& 22.CD Dvorak: Symphonien Nr. 7-9;Karneval-Ouvertüre

23.& 24.CD Brahms: Klavierkonzerte Nr. 1 & 2;Händel-Variationen op. 24;Walzer op. 39 Nr. 1-16 (Leon Fleisher, George Szell)

25.& 26.CD "Robert Casadesus - The Complete Piano Music of Maurice Ravel" - Pavane pour une infante defunte;A la maniere de Chabrier;A la maniere de Borodine;Sonatine;Miroirs;Ma mere l'oye;Habanera;Jeux d'eau;Prelude a-moll;Menuet sur le nom d'Haydn;Berceuse sur le nom de Gabriel Faure;Le Tombeau de Couperin;Valses nobles et sentimentales;Menuet antique;Gaspard de la nuit;Klavierkonzert für die linke Hand

27.CD Schostakowitsch: Cellokonzert Nr. 1 op. 107 (Ersteinspielung);Violinkonzert Nr. 1 op. 99 (Mstislav Rostropovich, David Oistrach)

28.CD Mahler: Symphonie Nr. 1;Brahms: Haydn-Variationen op. 56a (Bruno
Walter)

Künstler: Michel Rabin, Leon Fleisher, David Oistrach, Zino Francescatti, Claudio Arrau, Ossy Renardy, Mstislav Rostropovich, Gregor Piatigorsky, Budapest String Quartet, Cleveland Orchestra, New York Philharmonic Orchestra, George Szell, Fritz Reiner, Bruno Walteru. v.a.
Label: Sony, ADD, 1912-1968
Bestellnummer: 1534248
Erscheinungstermin: 26.7.2013

David Fox

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Jul 4, 2013, 1:33:23 PM7/4/13

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Now *that* is a great box. Too bad that I already own everything in it
that I want. It's a steal for anyone who doesn't.

DF

Alan Cooper

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Jul 4, 2013, 2:59:39 PM7/4/13

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David Fox <davidf...@yahoo.com> wrote in
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I'd say that about half of it is desert-island stuff and half is "so
what/not again," but overall the box is still a bargain, esp. for
newbies. Are all the missing items vocal? Bidu Sayao, George London, the
Barber/Copland/Thomson CD featuring Leontyne Price and William Warfield,
Lenya sings Weill, Eileen Farrell, and Paul Robeson come immediately to
mind. A lot of fine recordings not frequently re-re-issued, iow. Perhaps
they'll be repackaged separately?

AC

RiRiIII

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Jul 4, 2013, 4:31:10 PM7/4/13

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Yes I think the vocal ones are missing only: apart from the ones you mentioned, the Steber/Berlioz/Mitropoulos, the Gerswhin set and the Opera one.

wanwan

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Jul 4, 2013, 6:59:11 PM7/4/13

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The Szell/Strauss and the 3 orchestras brass section Gabrielli is also missing.

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Eric

Sol L. Siegel

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Jul 4, 2013, 8:55:12 PM7/4/13

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Alan Cooper <amcoo...@SPAMoptonline.net> wrote in
news:XnsA1F3988A12632am...@209.197.15.254:

> Are all the missing items vocal? Bidu Sayao, George London,
> the Barber/Copland/Thomson CD featuring Leontyne Price and William
> Warfield, Lenya sings Weill, Eileen Farrell, and Paul Robeson come
> immediately to mind. A lot of fine recordings not frequently
> re-re-issued, iow. Perhaps they'll be repackaged separately?

Has anyone mentioned the Mitropoulos Wozzeck?

- Sol L. Siegel, Philadelphia, PA USA

Al Eisner

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Jul 5, 2013, 5:42:12 PM7/5/13

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I've had this thought before, and am by no means picking on the two
people whose posts are quoted above, but: in what sense does this
constitute a "great box"? Even if every recording in it is great/desirable
(I have no idea, but am happy to concede the possibility), doesn't
the adjective "great" modifying "box" require some kind of unifying
theme -- a commonality of composers, style, artists, or something
else? I'm probably being overly old-fashioned about this. (And on
a more practical level, where would one file such a boxc?)
--

Al Eisner

David Fox

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Jul 5, 2013, 6:47:27 PM7/5/13

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It's great because the recordings packaged in the box are mostly great.
Some are spectacular.

Even if every recording in it is great/desirable
> (I have no idea, but am happy to concede the possibility), doesn't
> the adjective "great" modifying "box" require some kind of unifying
> theme -- a commonality of composers, style, artists, or something
> else?

The unifying theme is the Sony Masterworks Heritage Series, possibly the
best reissue series of the past 20 years. There have been a number
of label/issue-themed boxes over the past few years: MLP, Decca,
Philips, RCA Living Stereo, etc.

I'm probably being overly old-fashioned about this. (And on
> a more practical level, where would one file such a boxc?)

Perhaps with your other omnibus boxes - those listed above, along with
orchestral commemorative boxes, Great Pianists, Great Conductors, etc.
This is not a concern for me anymore as I've explained many times over.

DF

Al Eisner

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Jul 5, 2013, 7:06:22 PM7/5/13

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On Fri, 5 Jul 2013, David Fox wrote:

> On 7/5/13 2:42 PM, Al Eisner wrote:
>> On Thu, 4 Jul 2013, David Fox wrote:
>>
>>> On 7/4/13 1:04 AM, RiRiIII wrote:
>>>> A nice box. I noticed it does not include the complete releases in
>>>> these great series.
>>>>
>>>> http://www.jpc.de/jpcng/classic/detail/-/art/Masterworks-Heritage-Collection-Sony/hnum/1534248

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>>> Now *that* is a great box. Too bad that I already own everything in
>>> it that I want. It's a steal for anyone who doesn't.
>>>
>>> DF
>>
>> I've had this thought before, and am by no means picking on the two
>> people whose posts are quoted above, but: in what sense does this
>> constitute a "great box"?
>
> It's great because the recordings packaged in the box are mostly great.
> Some are spectacular.
>
>> Even if every recording in it is great/desirable
>> (I have no idea, but am happy to concede the possibility), doesn't
>> the adjective "great" modifying "box" require some kind of unifying
>> theme -- a commonality of composers, style, artists, or something
>> else?
>
> The unifying theme is the Sony Masterworks Heritage Series, possibly the
> best reissue series of the past 20 years.

As a theme for a box, however? I think that's what Kurt Vonnegut would have
termed a granfalloon.

> There have been a number
> of label/issue-themed boxes over the past few years: MLP, Decca, Philips,
> RCA Living Stereo, etc.

I know. That's why I said that I haad the same thought before. I don't
really get it.

> I'm probably being overly old-fashioned about this. (And on
>> a more practical level, where would one file such a boxc?)
>
> Perhaps with your other omnibus boxes - those listed above, along with
> orchestral commemorative boxes, Great Pianists, Great Conductors, etc.

But I don't have any of those other sets. :) [And at least something
like "Great Pianists" does have a unifying concept.]

> This is not a concern for me anymore as I've explained many times over.

Indeed.
--

Al Eisner

Steve de Mena

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Jul 6, 2013, 1:43:56 AM7/6/13

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On 7/5/13 2:42 PM, Al Eisner wrote:

> I've had this thought before, and am by no means picking on the two
> people whose posts are quoted above, but: in what sense does this
> constitute a "great box"?

It's a "great box" because it's cheap, will sell, and contains many
great recordings.

Steve

Matthew B. Tepper

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Jul 13, 2013, 4:20:12 PM7/13/13

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RiRiIII <ec38...@gmail.com> appears to have caused the following letters
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> A nice box. I noticed it does not include the complete releases in these
> great series.

You don't actually find that surprising, do you?

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