With sets like this one wonders how long before Brilliant will follow the example of Hnssler and issue an IPod or other MP3 player of these recordings.
Mozart Complete Edition Brilliant Classics Plus One EachWhat is the line between forbidding and promising, intimidating and potentially exciting Deciding to acquire this 160 CD box (plus one each DVD and CDROM) for the price of the equivalent of 9 premium price CDs involves at least a moments reflection on where the line lies.I have played only the lightest speckle of tracks in the interests of reporting first impressions.Even so I hope that this will be of some value in dealing with these questions.
I can at least touch in part of the outline of what to expect. While I would not put it past Universal to issue a bargain basement box based on their vanguard Edition theres no news that they will. EMI might but theres no sign of it as yet and you might have to wait for the next big centenary or half centenary of the birth or death. Naxos will, I predict, ultimately issue a complete Mozart but then again they might not. ![]() The potential purchaser of this Brilliant Classics set is confronted with Mozarts huge and variegated edifice of surviving music and must decide whether the promise of discovery and of revealed pleasure or of curiosity satisfied is enough to warrant the outlay. You might well reflect on whether a large - but not this large - box of the Greatest Mozart or some such would fit the bill. Brilliant have one already at something like 40 for 40 CDs (93669 listed at 35.00) and so did EMI Classics in their very strong 2007 box Mozart 50 (0946 3 87894 2 0) at something like 43 for 50 CDs running the gamut from Tate, Barenboim, Oistrakh, Heutling, Kagan, Krips, Sawallisch and Haitink (many older recordings but very distinguished all the same). On the other hand the tantalising possibility of missing out on something will always be there when at the price of just 0.54 per disc you could have had it all. Completists, students, academics and the cash-strapped libraries they frequent alongside and Mozart fanatics, parents who are of the Mozartchild brain food persuasion and those collectors who are transfixed by huge boxed sets will muse and at this price many will buy. Those who shelled out for the earlier version of Brilliants Mozart The Complete Works - A 250th commemorative edition (1756-2005) 170cds (92540) will wonder about whether to do so again. How many more times will they be confronted with yet another complete Mozart in which the changes have been rung. I doubt that this will be the last Mozart Edition issued though by their nature they are unlikely to be numerous. Then again theres the continuing onward march of research to be borne in mind. How complete is this set Complete, practically speaking, but is this every dance, every orchestral movement, every song I suspect that there will be discoveries to come from Russian and Chinese vaults, from Christies catalogues, from magnates strong rooms and from chance encounters in university archives. As it stands theres a lifetime (at least one) of listening here to make friends old or new, to feed aversions, to slake the thirst for knowledge of undiscovered countries and for those rigorous souls who will listen their way systematically through every disc. Then again if you can transfer these discs onto a Brennan or other storage device you could, once the transfer has been made, press the random play button and wonder at the variety. Just dont forget to ensure that you have entered the details for each disc as you make the transfer or check that the set is fully entered on the current version of the Brennan or other database. Telling against the set is the lack of a big book or even several books keyed to the CDs and tracks - think in terms of Graham Johnsons book of the Schubert songs for Hyperion (review). They will have to console themselves with CDROM and DVD which form part of the 12 inch long box. Mozart Complete Edition Brilliant Classics Pdf Context AndThe CD-ROMs supply profuse pdf context and texts (no translations though and ineffectual linking to particular CDs and tracks) but you may resent having to load this each time you are curious.
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