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.
125 Jahre Münchner Philharmoniker
Münchner Philharmoniker
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
François Couperin: Edition
William Christie, Christophe Rousset, John Eliot Gardiner et al
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 format: Download & Streaming (up to 44.1 kHz, 16 bit)
