Bernard Haitink at 85 - and Beyond.

[Petrushka]

Thanks for this, Pet. Have never outgrown the thrill of a Haitink new release!

Nor me, Alison. Still awaiting a complete Haitink/Concertgebouw big box.

[cloughie]

Nor me, Alison. Still awaiting a complete Haitink/Concertgebouw big box.

For a conductor of his standing the overall availability of his recordings is patchy and messy - it is time that Decca got it sorted - an Eloquence box of his Sixties recordings would be a good start!

[Eine Alpensinfonie]

Nor me, Alison. Still awaiting a complete Haitink/Concertgebouw big box.

[Petrushka]

For a conductor of his standing the overall availability of his recordings is patchy and messy - it is time that Decca got it sorted - an Eloquence box of his Sixties recordings would be a good start!

Yes, it's very messy but the direction of travel, in the boxed set reissues of the Mahler/Bruckner sets and the Symphony Edition, is pointing to a big box sooner or later. As we well know, the record companies do like to milk their back catalogues for all they're worth in order to obtain maximum revenue from those punters who keep on buying the same recordings several times over! It's a charge to which I plead guilty!

[Alison]

I wouldn't mind a London box in the manner of the Abbado one on DG.

That would gather in some excellent material, Liszt, Rimsky, Holst, Elgar, Stravinsky etc and not least the LvB symphonies.

[cloughie]

Yes, it's very messy but the direction of travel, in the boxed set reissues of the Mahler/Bruckner sets and the Symphony Edition, is pointing to a big box sooner or later. As we well know, the record companies do like to milk their back catalogues for all they're worth in order to obtain maximum revenue from those punters who keep on buying the same recordings several times over! It's a charge to which I plead guilty!

Yes I own up too - I think of the number of conductors who I’ve liked seemingly forever and have bought LPs as they came out , bought the CDs and then the boxes - those beautiful complete sets which include those issues you didn’t know existed or had forgotten about.