Argerich Lugano Concertos box

[amateur51]

Just as wonderful as promised by Barbirollians. It's all pretty special, really. Having being interrupted by a 'phone call from a great Bachian while listening to the Bartok 3rd, he recommended the following which I'm sure everyone else but me will have heard already but, boy, it's 2 minutes of pure joy:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7mFDXNODNyc

Wonderful stuff if you like your JSB on the modern concert grand (I do )

More ...

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Bach-J-S-Toc...9385328&sr=1-1

[amateur51]

Just a minor word of warning - this magnificent set comes in a ludicrously oversized packaging with a hardback book of photos & multi-language guff and a slipcase!

Lovely performances tho

[Bryn]

Just a minor word of warning - this magnificent set comes in a ludicrously oversized packaging with a hardback book of photos & multi-language guff and a slipcase!

Lovely performances tho

Indeed, but sufficiently substantially constructed to be far less annoying than the Naive re-issues in this format:

[akiralx]

Just a minor word of warning - this magnificent set comes in a ludicrously oversized packaging with a hardback book of photos & multi-language guff and a slipcase!

Lovely performances tho

Yes, and one thing about the packaging I find strange is that the left hand (inside front cover) and right hand (inside back cover) CDs have finger-access identations to ease out the discs - but there is a plastic rim which renders them useless... Great set though.

[Black Swan]

Thanks for the this reply. I missed this one and I am a huge Argerich fan. So it's off to Amazon for me. I don't care so much about the packaging but the music.

[BBMmk2]

I do rather hate it when you have all this over excessive bumpf in a recording. So uncessary, imo.

[Barbirollians]

Yes irritating packaging and fabulous performances

[Black Swan]

Well job done. CD's ordered. My thinking is keep the CD's toss the box.

[BBMmk2]

Well job done. CD's ordered. My thinking is keep the CD's toss the box.

Good thinking! I might just do that when I order my set!!

It'sthe music that counts, after all!

[Bryn]

Good thinking! I might just do that when I order my set!!

It'sthe music that counts, after all!

I'll not be junking my box. It maybe (is) non-standard but it is also of substancial construction. I store most of my sizable boxed sets separately from the single and up to 4 disc sets anyway.

[Barbirollians]

Saints above a new addition to the Argerich concerto repertoire in the latest EMI Lugano box !!! Mozart: Piano Concerto No 25 K 503

[Sir Velo]

Saints above a new addition to the Argerich concerto repertoire in the latest EMI Lugano box !!! Mozart: Piano Concerto No 25 K 503

Not so. Admirers of her live recordings at the Concertgbouw will already have this.

[amateur51]

Saints above a new addition to the Argerich concerto repertoire in the latest EMI Lugano box !!! Mozart: Piano Concerto No 25 K 503

Many thanks for the alert, Barbs - here's the cheapest I've found ...

http://www.blahdvd.com/Music/Martha-Argerich-and-Friends-Live-from-Lugano-2012-Music-CD/7211192/product.htm

[amateur51]

Not so. Admirers of her live recordings at the Concertgbouw will already have this.

So, some admirers then, Sir Velo?

[Barbirollians]

Not so. Admirers of her live recordings at the Concertgbouw will already have this.

How embarrassing - I have got that and had forgotten all about it . I only remembered her K453 and K466 recordings.

She is slated to perform K271 with Abbado in three concerts this autumn - now that is something I should love to hear recorded .