Sujet : New topic: which Bruckner boxes should be avoided?
De : vangaalenusenet (at) *nospam* gmail.com (Roland van Gaalen)
Groupes : rec.music.classicalDate : 04. Jul 2024, 18:30:48
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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.
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Roland van Gaalen
The Netherlands