Wilhelm Furtwängler Legacy - 107 CDs

[Eine Alpensinfonie]

Wow, you have been applying yourself EA! Were the set mine, I would doubtless be sheepishly admitting to not having yet removed the cellophane!

It was a solace in Schubert Saturation Week and on every weekday morning.

[wodanaz]

I've been considering this set. Can someone comment on the remasterings compared to Music & Arts releases such as the Bruckner symphonies and Die Meistersinger?

[reinerfan]

Many thanks - Membran transfers used to be acceptable but recent ones have all been overcooked. Let's hope it was passing phase - but the bad ones will still be recycled, no doubt.

As a keen collector of Membran (96 boxes at the last count), I have found exactly the opposite. Early 10 CD sets were often dreadfully over processed, and only useful, at the very cheap price, for deciding whether one liked a performance and then to purchase a better transfer on another label. Recent boxes over the last 2 years have, on average, been much better, and some of the individual singer sets have been very good indeed with quite an amount of "live" material. Of course, one is likely to get a more consistent quality of transfer on the much more expensive specialist labels like Music & Arts, but the price of Membran sets makes them extremely attractive and one can put up with the occasional dud disc (I pay under 10 Euros for the 10 CD sets, and paid only £29 for the very entertaining 100 CD "Masters of Music" box (!!!) and £35 for the fascinating 50 CD "Wagner's Vision-Bayreuth Heritage" set). The Furtwängler set is proving endlessly rewarding, as is the 66 CD Michael Raucheisen box, the latter providing some amazing quality recordings especially from the 1940's.

[amateur51]

The Furtwängler set is proving endlessly rewarding, as is the 66 CD Michael Raucheisen box, the latter providing some amazing quality recordings especially from the 1940's.

Oh reinerfan - how I wish that you hadn't said that - I was teetering on the edge of getting both sets but had resigned myself to not doing so. And now ...

Happy listening!

[BBMmk2]

Please give us a commentary as you go throiugh this box set!!

[richardfinegold]

I've played all 107 discs on my car CD player with no problems.

Not that that proves anything.

How much petrol did you consume?