Your Dream Box Sets

[vinteuil]

When I buy a large box set, I do ensure that I listen to every disc, if only to check for faults. I suppose it's a throwback to the days of LPs.

... and every book you buy, you immediately check to see that no pages are misplaced.

[Eine Alpensinfonie]

... and every book you buy, you immediately check to see that no pages are misplaced.

I do with sheet music, especially scores.

[Nick Armstrong]

A friend bought the DG Fricsay set and discovered pdq that he was lacking disc no. 19 but had two no. 20's! I have so many boxed sets that are still in their plastic wrappings that I despair of every opening them!

That despair would also be mine!

But I very much take your point, vindetable.

It's just that these days, t'internet gives one the ability to perform such 'reference' activities as I wish to engage in (generally-speaking) without a proliferation of 'concrete' objects whose possession per se gives me little satisfaction.

[Nick Armstrong]

No. The biggest boxed set I have is WTK Book 2 on 3 discs.

Mine's the £2.50 "Superdrug" Shostakovich Symphonies/WDR-Barshai box!

[vinteuil]

... without a proliferation of 'concrete' objects whose possession per se gives me little satisfaction.

... o, you can little imagine the joy of having immediately available to stroke all the 48 volumes of the Yale Walpole and the 21 vols of the Plon Proust

[Nick Armstrong]

... o, you can little imagine the joy of having immediately available to stroke all the 48 volumes of the Yale Walpole and the 21 vols of the Plon Proust

An old cliché involving the words 'chacun' and 'goût' springs to mind!

Whatever turns you on, vinmousseux! When an Englishman cannot stroke what he wants in the comfort of his own home, it will be a sad day!

[amateur51]

... o, you can little imagine the joy of having immediately available to stroke all the 48 volumes of the Yale Walpole and the 21 vols of the Plon Proust

Will you be settled back home and out of the Hammersmith YWCA by the turn of the year, vints?

Shepherds Bush Shurgard is the place to raid, I'm told

[vinteuil]

Will you be settled back home and out of the Hammersmith YWCA by the turn of the year, vints?

Shepherds Bush Shurgard is the place to raid, I'm told

... M et Mme V will return chez eux this very Monday.

Sadly the Walpoles and Prousts won't join us until January....

[Ferretfancy]

Some of us may remember an advert featuring a very tweedy gentleman with a pipe, a glass of wine by his side, sitting in a comfortable armchair. The caption read "Fine sets these Fergusons"

I used to have a daydream that when I retired I would play out a similar scenario, listening to all the music in my collection and catching up on all the works of literature that I had always intended to read. It just doesn't happen, does it ? Life takes over, and distractions multiply, but maybe it's for the best. After all I might have succumbed due to lack of exercise. As it is, I do dip in and make time for listening, but it's never the structured existence I had envisaged, that's where the choice of vast boxed sets becomes a snare.

That said, I think I'll go for Sviatislav, partly because I have a sentimental association with his old mono LP of Schumann's Op. 12 Fantasiestucke. It's still on my shelves.

[JFLL]

Some of us may remember an advert featuring a very tweedy gentleman with a pipe, a glass of wine by his side, sitting in a comfortable armchair. The caption read "Fine sets these Fergusons"

Rather fine understatement there, too. The advertisers knew their audience in those days. "Just put that little thing of Chopin on the turntable, old girl, and while you're about it bring me my slippers, there's a dear." Now the same demo is bombarded with tweets

[Don Petter]

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[Flosshilde]

Have any of you checked out Presto? They have up to 50% off 2000 box sets - enough of a choice to satisfy quite a number of your dreams

[amateur51]

... M et Mme V will return chez eux this very Monday.

Sadly the Walpoles and Prousts won't join us until January....

This is gradely news, I said gradely news, vints

I hope that all goes well with the move and that you and your beloved books are reunited without mishap or delay.

[Don Petter]

... M et Mme V will return chez eux this very Monday.

Sadly the Walpoles and Prousts won't join us until January....

But surely the Gascoignes can come before that, Bob and Penny ... ?

[amateur51]

But surely the Gascoignes can come before that, Bob and Penny ... ?

With that great brute of a hound of theirs, chihuahua or whatever?