Path: ...!local-4.nntp.ord.giganews.com!Xl.tags.giganews.com!local-2.nntp.ord.giganews.com!news.giganews.com.POSTED!not-for-mail NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 04 Jul 2024 17:57:17 +0000 Date: Thu, 04 Jul 2024 10:57:17 -0700 From: Pluted Pup Mime-Version: 1.0 User-Agent: Hogwasher/5.24 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <0001HW.2C3719FD00B85F2830A5C138F@news.giganews.com> Subject: Re: New topic: which Bruckner boxes should be avoided? Newsgroups: rec.music.classical.recordings References: Lines: 32 X-Usenet-Provider: http://www.giganews.com X-Trace: sv3-VFKlEYS83hpoRilPy7ccCregYv1kGZ7lXccyFqG1zOKp7Nyc25/QwTtb32zjPjeQuVUTOx2ahiWkD3O!UVsi6HRmVcLqjLJjfUgZCrJhbTmgtfZKN/gPuePDf/gs1VXiYQNhPD6Z7O5qV7SGGrR04WVz4Ezi!Lpvd X-Complaints-To: abuse@giganews.com X-DMCA-Notifications: http://www.giganews.com/info/dmca.html X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Please be sure to forward a copy of ALL headers X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Otherwise we will be unable to process your complaint properly X-Postfilter: 1.3.40 Bytes: 2395 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.