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  • Bryn
    Banned
    • Mar 2007
    • 24688

    The complete DG Boston Symphony Orchestra recordings (57 CDS) £77,60 including p&p to U.K. Far lower price than other Amazon sites or other vendors. Listing https://www.prestoclassical.co.uk/cl...che-grammophon.

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    • HighlandDougie
      Full Member
      • Nov 2010
      • 3079

      Originally posted by Bryn View Post
      The complete DG Boston Symphony Orchestra recordings (57 CDS) £77,60 including p&p to U.K. Far lower price than other Amazon sites or other vendors. Listing https://www.prestoclassical.co.uk/cl...che-grammophon.

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      • hafod
        Full Member
        • Nov 2010
        • 740

        Originally posted by Bryn View Post
        The complete DG Boston Symphony Orchestra recordings (57 CDS) £77,60 including p&p to U.K. Far lower price than other Amazon sites or other vendors. Listing https://www.prestoclassical.co.uk/cl...che-grammophon.
        More than half the 57 discs - 37 in fact - are Ozawa.

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        • Bryn
          Banned
          • Mar 2007
          • 24688

          Originally posted by hafod View Post
          More than half the 57 discs - 37 in fact - are Ozawa.
          Indeed, reflecting the period DG was most closely involved with the BSO. I appreciate that Ozawa is not everybody's favourite conductor.

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          • mathias broucek
            Full Member
            • Nov 2010
            • 1303

            Originally posted by Bryn View Post
            Indeed, reflecting the period DG was most closely involved with the BSO. I appreciate that Ozawa is not everybody's favourite conductor.
            I read a review where the reviewer suggested it would have been better if the box had been based on the BSO's guest conductors (including Decca and Philips material)...

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            • Bryn
              Banned
              • Mar 2007
              • 24688

              Originally posted by mathias broucek View Post
              I read a review where the reviewer suggested it would have been better if the box had been based on the BSO's guest conductors (including Decca and Philips material)...
              A very fair comment. I must admit that if Ozawa's recording of Ives's 4th had been my first encounter with the work, it might not have had the chance to become my favourite symphony.

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              • HighlandDougie
                Full Member
                • Nov 2010
                • 3079

                Originally posted by hafod View Post
                More than half the 57 discs - 37 in fact - are Ozawa.
                Actually it's 28, according to the list on the jpc.de website. And not everything he recorded is duff, although I freely admit that the thought of him conducting Brahms doesn't make my heart race.

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                • hafod
                  Full Member
                  • Nov 2010
                  • 740

                  Originally posted by HighlandDougie View Post
                  Actually it's 28, according to the list on the jpc.de website. And not everything he recorded is duff, although I freely admit that the thought of him conducting Brahms doesn't make my heart race.
                  The figure I quoted came from John Fowler's review - this reviewer although a little eccentric is normally accurate.


                  Ihave a number of Ozaw'a recordings and it was not my intention to deprecate him, merely to bemoan the fact that the slice of the action allocated to him was rather large although it does of course reflect the length of his tenure at Boston.

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                  • Bryn
                    Banned
                    • Mar 2007
                    • 24688

                    Originally posted by hafod View Post
                    The figure I quoted came from John Fowler's review - this reviewer although a little eccentric is normally accurate.


                    I have a number of Ozaw'a recordings and it was not my intention to deprecate him, merely to bemoan the fact that the slice of the action allocated to him was rather large although it does of course reflect the length of his tenure at Boston.
                    Perhaps he was mistaking the number of works conducted by Ozawa with the number of discs. I made it 29 discs on the jpc.de site, by the way, rather than 28.

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                    • Conchis
                      Banned
                      • Jun 2014
                      • 2396

                      Originally posted by hafod View Post
                      More than half the 57 discs - 37 in fact - are Ozawa.
                      A good way to get 'a lot of Ozawa in your life' (to paraphrase an old BSO marketing line).

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                      • HighlandDougie
                        Full Member
                        • Nov 2010
                        • 3079

                        Originally posted by Bryn View Post
                        Perhaps he was mistaking the number of works conducted by Ozawa with the number of discs. I made it 29 discs on the jpc.de site, by the way, rather than 28.
                        Oops, I forgot about 2xcd sets - and split discs - so I might revise the earlier 28 to 31. Whatever, DG clearly reckoned that Ozawa was a saleable commodity, particularly in the all-important Japanese market (and, having seen the Ozawa section in Tower Records Shibuya, you gotta believe it), hence the plethora of recordings. I bracket him mentally with Charles Dutoit and Zubin Mehta - fine if you happen to catch them in concert but would you want to buy the record? Anyway, I’ve succumbed to the box set as there is a lot of other stuff I’d like to have.

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                        • Bryn
                          Banned
                          • Mar 2007
                          • 24688

                          Originally posted by HighlandDougie View Post
                          Oops, I forgot about 2xcd sets - and split discs - so I might revise the earlier 28 to 31. Whatever, DG clearly reckoned that Ozawa was a saleable commodity, particularly in the all-important Japanese market (and, having seen the Ozawa section in Tower Records Shibuya, you gotta believe it), hence the plethora of recordings. I bracket him mentally with Charles Dutoit and Zubin Mehta - fine if you happen to catch them in concert but would you want to buy the record? Anyway, I’ve succumbed to the box set as there is a lot of other stuff I’d like to have.
                          Moi aussi. I was so pleased when Ozawa's Toronto recording of Turangalîla-Symphonie was released. As I was later with the issue of the Paris production of Saint François d'Assise. Both recordings well and truly superseded in the interim. However, I still treasure both his recordings of Honegger's Jeanne d'Arc au bûcher (the first in English, the second in French).

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                          • cloughie
                            Full Member
                            • Dec 2011
                            • 22110

                            Originally posted by HighlandDougie View Post
                            Oops, I forgot about 2xcd sets - and split discs - so I might revise the earlier 28 to 31. Whatever, DG clearly reckoned that Ozawa was a saleable commodity, particularly in the all-important Japanese market (and, having seen the Ozawa section in Tower Records Shibuya, you gotta believe it), hence the plethora of recordings. I bracket him mentally with Charles Dutoit and Zubin Mehta - fine if you happen to catch them in concert but would you want to buy the record? Anyway, I’ve succumbed to the box set as there is a lot of other stuff I’d like to have.
                            My reason for not getting the box is that I would have over 50% duplications, and I have enjoyed many an Ozawa recording over the years, and I have also many excellent Mehta and Dutoit recordings paticularly the former's Decca IPO and LAPO and the latter's with the OSM.

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                            • hafod
                              Full Member
                              • Nov 2010
                              • 740

                              Gunter Wand - Live 33CD BOX SET: Amazon.co.uk - £33.94


                              One left!
                              Last edited by hafod; 08-03-18, 17:50.

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                              • Bryn
                                Banned
                                • Mar 2007
                                • 24688

                                Originally posted by hafod View Post
                                Gunter Wand - Live 33CD BOX SET: Amazon.co.uk - £33.94


                                One left!
                                A worthwhile companion to Sony's "Great Recordings" box of Wand, by the look of it

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