Re: New topic: which Bruckner boxes should be avoided?

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).
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I already had six or seven! (Plus a number of individual recordings.)
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Frankly, I think they're all great, with perhaps one exception (*).
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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!
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So: which Bruckner boxes should be avoided, do you think?
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(*) 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.