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I assume any film music fan, or music fan in general, worth their own pants has at least one physical boxed set in their collections. What are yours?
I don’t have a lot, but I have these:
I indeed have less than I wanted ;): The same Star Wars and Indy Boxes and the Charles Gerhardt Box a few years ago. Not sure if those count as boxes already but I have a 3CD Laurie Johnson with THE PROFESSIONALS (jewel cases but in a paperbox) and a the pre-FSM box BEN-HUR 2CD Edition (same format as teh SW and Delerue, how that is called escapes me right now…).
I made a photograph of just my John Williams boxsets. But I cannot upload pictures here. So just in words.
I have these John Williams boxsets
The Phillips Conductor Boxset
SONY Conductor Boxset
SONY John Williams – The Great Movie Soundtracks (4-discs)
The Legend of John Williams (20 discs)
Desaster Movie Box (4 discs)
Harry Potter – The John Williams Scores (7 discs)
Indiana Jones Concord Boxset (5 discs)
Star Wars Trilogy – The Anthology Boxset (4 discs)
John Williams in Berlin (2 CDs, 1 BluRay)
John Williams in Tokio (2 CDs, 1 BluRay)
Across The Stars (1 CD, 1 DVD)Apart from that I have the Bernard Herrmann phase-4 boxset and the Planet of the Apes boxset. And the 12-disc Charles Gerhardt boxset.
But I think, that’s it for soundtrack related boxsets.
Edit: Oh wait, no! I almost forgot my two lovely Ennio Morricone Ecoutez Le Cinema boxsets. And my 6-disc Philippe Sarde Anthology boxset. All wonderful boxsets.
That’s a pretty good haul!
Btw, You can upload pictures at https://imgbb.com/
By the way, of course I am not going to buy the new SONY Anthology Vol. 1 of John Williams. And probably also not the other two upcoming volumes.
Because I guess, I already have everything they contain.For a long time I was very hesitant to get the SONY Conductor box because I basically already owned everything from it that I was really interested in. But then it became so cheap, that I couldn’t resist. And it actually contained some nice things, that I didn’t own before.
No, but I was primarily interested in all the stuff composed by Williams. And there I was more or less complete. But I then enjoyed some of the other records as well like the Gershwin album or the cinema serenade albums.
My question was more — since you already owned most of the music on the set, was it only purchased to display on the shelf or the mantle piece or whatever, an “item”? But lookin’ good, that collection. You have Tokyo and Across the Stars – Deluxe Edition. Both on my want list.
I have to be more precise. I didn’t have most of the albums already. I just had the Yo-Yo Ma cello Album, the five sacred trees, an american journey and some of the recordings of Williams composition on the other Sony boxset, which covers about 90% of the actual Williams pieces of the box. But I didn’t have any of the Boston Pops albums. And I didn’t have the Star Wars album as well. So, it wasn’t just for the shelf but a lot more music to explore.
The Tokyo box was a black friday sale for around 16 Euro if I remember correctly. And I am quite happy with it. The ET suite is great.
Sigbjørn always hates it when I post something from that box, but truth be told, it makes up a healthy portion of my entire collection of classical music on physical format. It was a gift from my dad, and has 29 discs with all kinds of stuff — often unusual versions of famous pieces, and some quite obscure:
https://musicbrainz.org/release/05ffffa2-66d5-32a5-994b-9922b620c46d/cover-art
Ah, oh, wow, lots of good stuff I see. I just thought at first it was film music related, and I don’t recall any film music on Harmonia Mundi ever.
Sigbjørn always hates it when I post something from that box
Not at all! I have it myself and it’s a great collection of highlights from the label. One of my early box set purchases. Their later Lumieres box is a nice companion to this.
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