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The 70 CD boxed set is around $80 and I was thinking it must be too good to be true.
How is the recording quality - respectable is good enough I suppose at this price.
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While I enjoy the set, I am annoyed by the fact that each disc is restricted in playing time to an lp, and that there is a TREMENDOUS amount of duplication. I am sure that if they tried to avoid this, it would boil down to 1/3 the number of discs. Still, a good buy.
That is disappointing - I mean the point of CD is convenience and the longer play time per disc. Repeats?? What the ...
I am buying a turntable today so I may hold off and explore what is available from Horowitz on vinyl - I have some back in Canada but being without a turntable for the last 4 years I forget what I own - seriously I have bought the same albums a few times and that is highly annoying.
Before I moved to Hong Kong I picked up 500 albums from a recycling center. They try and sell the stuff first and for $2 you can take as many albums as you can stick in a bag. Many are still sealed originals so I have to root through the pile to see what I have if anything from Horowitz.
This one is up for streaming on both QOBUZ and DEEZER Elite.
42 CD's is more than a few days listening.
70 more?
The Carnegie Hall box set duplicates the recordings in the Original Jacket box that were recorded live at Carnegie Hall. But the former also contains many live recordings that were never released, and the latter contains many studio recordings (all of which have been released before).
There is duplication of repertoire within each box, but at least the Carnegie Box contains different performances of the same piece instead of just giving you the same recording on different discs.
Saw him once in concert in Cleveland near the end of his life. He p;layed the Liszt Sonata with moments of brilliance, and his encores were really enjoyable, but he was well below his best for the most part...
At $80 you cannot go wrong. I believe this is a Sony project, and Sony
usually does at very least an acceptable job of remastering, so I say
"go for it", esp. if you like the music and the musician (how can you
not like Horowitz???).
I have several of the Columbia Horowitz recordings on CD, and like them all.
Whether they are the same mastering as in this particular set I cannot say.
Horowitz probably more than anyone else on piano moves me the most emotionally. Even with the critical snipes I sometimes read about him. I read some user reviews on the net which seem pretty high on the set overall - a few quibbles here and there but on the whole seems solid - just wanted to see if anyone actually bought and found the LP transfers to be good or the middling 80s process that makes a lot of CDs sound like ass.
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