[Nick Zwar]

My latest box set is this:

It’s 12 discs of the music of Pierre Boulez plus one disc with an interview. Perhaps I am strange, could be, but I really enjoy quite a bit of Boulez’ compositions. When I first encountered them, I admit, I was puzzled… His first piano sonatas sounded at first to me like random notes…
It was “Sur Incises” that made me really listen… it was a composition that “clicked”, and it’s one of my favorite works of modern music. I don’t know why, but I find at least some of Boulez’ compositions highly “soothing” in a strange way. I find Boulez was an interesting personality and I’ve seen him a couple of times in concert as a conductor. So while this box doubled up on a few things I already had, I had to get it.

[Amer]

I have the following:

JERRY GOLDSMITH AT FOX
BERNARD HERRMANN AT 20TH CENTURY FOX
SUPERMAN THE MUSIC (FSM)
RON JONES: STAR TREK THE NEXT GENERATION-FSM
ELMER BERNSTEIN FILM MUSIC COLLECTION -FSM
THE BURTON-ELFMAN BOX SET
STAR TREK- TOS COLLECTION- LLL
MIKLOS ROZSA TREASURY -FSM
CHARLES GERHARDT- CLASSIC FILM MUSIC COLLECTION
STAR WARS COLLECTION
JOHN WILLIAMS CONDUCTOR SONY BOSTON POPS
DISASTER MOVIE SOUNDTRACK COLECTION -JOHN WILLIAMS
THE X FILES VOL. 1
MEDAL OF NONORS COLLECTION- LLL
LORD OF THE RING -THE FELLOWSHIP OF THE RING-CC
LORD OF THE RINGS- THE TWO TOWERS -CC
LORD OF THE RINGS- THE RETURN OF THE KING- CC
HARRY POTTER THE JOHN WILLIAMS SCORES
THE ADVENTURES OF INDIANA JONES -Concorde
STAR WARS TRILOGY- ANTHOLGY
JOHN WILLIAMS THE BOSTON POPS/ PHILIPS COLLECTION

[GerateWohl]

I wish I had these two:

ELMER BERNSTEIN FILM MUSIC COLLECTION -FSM
MIKLOS ROZSA TREASURY -FSM

[Malte Müller]

ELMER BERNSTEIN FILM MUSIC COLLECTION -FSM

There are some I would like to have if not funds would always get in the way. Might not help you but the Bernstein Collection at least is – I think – completely available digitally.

[Sigbjørn]

Here it is, with additional releases of these specific recordings of Torn Curtain and To Kill a Mockingbird added to the end of the playlist (I don’t know if they use the same master).

[Thor Joachim Haga]

That’s a great box. I don’t have it, but I have some of the titles individually. In some cases, the only version I’d like to own of said score. Like THE SILVER CHALICE (although I also have the suite on the LEGENDS OF set) and YOUNG BESS.

[Sigbjørn]

You have them on LP or digitally? I’m not aware of any of the albums having been released individually on CD.

[Thor Joachim Haga]

Digitally.

[Sigbjørn]

Anyone gotten the new Barry box set from Quartet Records, The Polydor Years? How is it?

[GerateWohl]

Anyone gotten the new Barry box set from Quartet Records, The Polydor Years? How is it?

I don’t have that. But as you mention that I remember that I have that 6-disc boxset THE MUSIC OF JOHN BARRY – THE DEFINITIVE COLLECTION with recordings of the City of Prague Philharmonic Orchestra.
That’s a great box, if you are mainly interested in the essentials. I find, with Barry mainly the themes are interesting. Generally, I am not super interested in Barry’s underscore. Of course there are exceptions.

[Sigbjørn]

Does this Silva/Prague box contain only newish recordings, or do they go all the way back to the 80s/90s when this team produced a lot of shoddy recordings?

[GerateWohl]

Cannot say for sure. The boxset is from 2014. And I like the sound good enough.

[Sigbjørn]

I see, although I was referring to the playing, not the sound. Some of their older recordings give the impression they only had time/budget for one take, with little time for practising.

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