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On Thu, 04 Jul 2024 10:30:18 -0700, Roland van Gaalen wrote:

> n the last year or so, I bought six Bruckner boxes (each containing
> recordings on CD of all or most of Bruckner's symphonies).
>
> I already had six or seven! (Plus a number of individual recordings.)
>
> Frankly, I think they're all great, with perhaps one exception (*).
>
> So, as far as buying Bruckner boxes is concerned, the question is not
> which are good ('good' being the default; I mean: almost all Bruckner
> boxes are 'good' in some sense), or how to rank them (the good ones all
> have their particular merits; ranking them makes no sense) but which are
> bad!
>
> So: which Bruckner boxes should be avoided, do you think?
>
> (*) At this stage, I have my doubts about one particular conductor, now
> dead, who, although famous and 'competent' or even 'perfectionist', is
> notorious for his dull studio recordings and may be vastly overrated.

Well, which one is maybe the bad one? I might have it,
but slips my mind. I get irritated with particular
recordings, such as Bruckner Fourths missing those
special moments, but the boxes I have all have something to it
elsewhere.

Are you hinting about Barenboim's studio DG Chicago
box? I don't have it but have the individual 0
symphony CD in order to get Helgoland.