Box Set Selections,
Boxed Set Selections - October 2018
Next Friday sees the release of one of the most ambitious collections in recording history – a lavish compendium of the complete works of JS Bach curated by Deutsche Grammophon, with the co-operation of thirty other labels and produced in collaboration with the Leipzig Bach Archive. Smaller-scale October boxes include archive collections of Gregor Piatigorsky and Wilhelm Kempff, comprehensive surveys of the music of Hummel and François Couperin, and a budget reissue of René Jacobs’s treasurable accounts of the three Mozart/Da Ponte operas on Harmonia Mundi.
Bach 333 - The New Complete Edition
Deluxe individually-numbered limited edition box set (English-language Edition)
Totalling over 280 hours of music and featuring 750 performers, this supremely authoritative 222-disc collection includes seven world premiere recordings and ten hours of new recordings as well as benchmark performances from musicians including Masaaki Suzuki, Christopher Hogwood, Alfred Brendel, Marie-Claire Alain, Pablo Casals, Wanda Landowska, Arthur Grumiaux and Zuzana Růžičková.
Available Format: 222 CDs + DVD Video
Released to celebrate the 120th birthday of the 'yellow label', this beautifully-curated set charts the evolution of Deutsche Gramophone through 120 iconic recordings, supplemented by four newly-commissioned essays exploring distinct periods in the label's history as well as twelve shorter pieces on genre. Also includes the complete Karajan Ring on blu-ray audio.
Available Format: 121 CDs + Blu-ray Audio
Spanning just over half of the Bavarian orchestra’s history (from a 1953 Knappertsbusch Eroica to Stravinsky and Rimsky Korsakov from Gergiev, recorded earlier this year), this 17-CD box includes Mozart from Zubin Mehta and Günter Wand, Reger and Brahms from Eugen Jochum, Prokofiev from Sergiu Celibidache, and Schubert from Christian Thielemann.
Available Format: 17 CDs
A 20-CD survey of Hummel’s output across all genres, including the opera Mathilde von Guise, the Missa Solemnis and Te Deum, seven discs of chamber music, and the concertos for piano, violin, mandolin, bassoon and trumpet. Also includes the complete piano sonatas from Costantino Mastroprimiano – you can read David’s interview with him about the project here.
Available Formats: 20 CDs, MP3, FLAC
A 16-disc collection including the Leçons de Ténèbres with Sophie Daneman and Patricia Petibon, the complete keyboard music in a newly-released recording from veteran French harpsichordist Laurence Boulay, and remastered historical performances from Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, Lynn Harrell, Pinchas Zukerman and Georges Cziffra.
Available Formats: 16 CDs, MP3, FLAC
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