In Reply to: Re: Thank you for the informative review of this compilation. I have always avoided it posted by LongPlay on March 21, 2007 at 21:07:26:
LongPlay,Of course, not every piece in a 155CD set can be the Earth-shakingly great and original, but the quality of the performances and recordings seems impossible at the price and I heard some performances in this set that I would place in the high quality category.
I ended up buying this set by actually wanting to find a set of the complete organ works as I knew I've missed and/or forgotten a number of pieces over the years. I have the complete organ works by Hurford and most of the other organ works on various recordings- I have about 600 organ LPs- but the organ works in particular are played and recorded quite selectively and one hears the same 10 or 12 all the time. But, looking around, complete organ works CD sets are mostly $60 -100 alone and as Fagius gives up nothing to other organists I like recording today, such as Rubsam, I couldn't resist the Brilliant Classics set.
When I purchased the Cach set, Amaonzon had a package deal for all of Bach and all of Mozart for I think $270. In retrospect I should have done both, but I wanted to focus on Bach. - And, I actually felt a bit cheap buying all this great music in "bulk" ! But, with hearing a good portion of the Bach set, that feeling is gone and I may well go through Mozart in the Autumn.
If you do buy the Bach set, I would enjoy reading your impressions. I find the idea of hearing just everything a very satisfying muscial experience- and relieves residual academic curiosity at the same time. The composers I really love all make me wish they had lived longer and written more and though he wrote so much it's calculated it would take a person 65 years only to copy it out, this applies to Bach too.
Cheers,Bambi B
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- Quite amazing- and a satisfying musical experience - Bambi B 07:06:34 03/22/07 (2)
- Re: In the year 2000, while I was living in Boston, Harvard radio did a chronological survey of the entire - LongPlay 23:30:26 03/22/07 (1)
- Ah! Those were the days! What a great orgy! nt - clarkjohnsen 08:27:57 03/23/07 (0)