And they're fabulous--all 33 CDs' worth, including amazing extended series of works by Nielsen, Sibelius, Hindemith and Strauss.. Get this one before it's too late.
Жүктеу.....
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@RafaNajera Жыл бұрын
Just saw a few hours ago a 95-year old Blomstedt conducting a spectacular Mendelssohn 3rd Symphony with Chamber Symphony of Europe in Cologne. Blomstedt is amazing. All the SF recordings I've heard of him are excellent indeed
@markzacek237 Жыл бұрын
Now on to a complete Decca Dohnanyi? Please?
@paulmiller5205
11 ай бұрын
Seconded, heartily!!!
@kanishknishar
5 ай бұрын
No commercial prospects sadly unlike yes even something like Blomstedt
@rtisom9 ай бұрын
We lovers of classical music truly are living in a golden age, with so much incredible music, of such high quality, previously difficult to obtain if not out of print, now so readily available in these gorgeous boxed sets, at modest price. It’s just unbelievably wonderful. This message can be lost in the “noise” if we get too nitpicky about detailed comparisons of various discs. (My favorite this, my favorite that - boy, don’t we have choices.) We should savor the moment. Thank you for your wonderful channel, I learn something new and enjoy myself with each video.
@KenL414 Жыл бұрын
Excellent review as always. Happy I got to see him conduct the Bruckner 4 in person this year. I’m a huge Mendelssohn fan, so I’ll definitely have to check out the 3rd and 4th plus the Brahms choral stuff, since I’ve always defaulted back to the RIAS Kammerchor stuff with Marcus Creed for the Brahms choral stuff.
@jesus-of-cheeses Жыл бұрын
Got this box on your suggestion. Definitely made my long weekend (and many weekends to come). Thank you!
@jasonlinn Жыл бұрын
I'm not much of a CD collector, but I might have to pick this box up. So many of these discs are at the tippy top of the upper echelon of my absolute favorite recordings.
@eddihaskell
Жыл бұрын
The San Francisco recordings are my reference recordings, and have been since they have been released. I like Blomstedt's Bruckner 4 and 6 with San Francisco, and Schubert 9th -- the sonics are some of the best if you have a good digital play-back system. Straus Alpine Symphony is wonderful at high volumes, it can get your entire neighborhood shaking.
@alanmcginn4796 Жыл бұрын
I have been waiting for this box. And just ordered my set. For the absurdly low price DECCA is asking, we should all fork out and buy the set. I of course have many of the recordings but great to see it all packaged together. Can’t wait to hear the hindemith. Dave. Great video
@dmntuba Жыл бұрын
I've been a fan of SF symphony for years. They are a great, world class orchestra which has been super fortunate to have a long line of 1st class music directors, but the HB Era is musical magic. I will be purchasing this box 👍
@sjc1204 Жыл бұрын
Oh wow! I just ordered the box before it's out-of-print Decca style. I am so glad you broke this news for us. The first classical concert I attended was Blomstedt with San Francisco so these recordings are extremely meaningful to me. I have many of these discs but have not been able to find all of them for rational prices so I'm going to cherish this box.
@kanishknishar
5 ай бұрын
What was the program?
@psono429 Жыл бұрын
I will put this on my wish list! one of the greatest maestros of music history and life!
@brianburtt7053 Жыл бұрын
You have delivered good tidings.
@buzzkill6857 Жыл бұрын
Man, there's been too many great box sets released (or rereleased) so far this year and my bank account is not happy with me now. This Blomstedt Decca box; the re-print of the RCA Living Stereo box; the Haitink Decca Concertgebouw box; the Dorati Detroit box; the massive Abbado DG/Decca/Philips box; the Ansermet Stereo box; the Trevor Pinnock Archiv box; the John Eliot Gardiner Warner box; the Frank Peter Zimmermann Warner box; the updated Emerson String Quartet box; then the soon-to-be released Klemperer Warner box and I'm sure a number of others that I missed!
@sjc1204
Жыл бұрын
Do you have a favorite of all the box sets you listed? Even asking the question is unfair but I'm curious.
@DavesClassicalGuide
Жыл бұрын
I really haven't thought about it...
@buzzkill6857
Жыл бұрын
@@sjc1204 For me, probably the RCA Living Stereo box. There's just so many great recordings crammed in there. I missed it back when it was originally released, so I was really excited when I saw that Sony re-printed it (and made it available for a reasonable price). Of the [actually] new boxes, I'm probably most excited about the Klemperer box, though it's the only one from that list that isn't available yet.
@ModusVivendiMedia Жыл бұрын
That Till Eulenspiegel is fantastic, so it's incomprehensible that anyone would substitute anything else. (Does anyone talk about Kurt Masur any more? Does anyone recommend any of his recordings as being the "reference" of anything? I swear I haven't heard that name in years.) I was always surprised that Blomstedt never did any Schumann, since I thought he'd be great in that music. Considering how good he was at Mendelssohn, Schubert, Dvorak, Brahms, etc., his apparent aversion to Schumann was interesting, and I never heard any explanation as to why. Fortunately I already own all of the SFS recordings.
@harukikougami11 ай бұрын
Thanks for another great review, Dave! :) I've seen on another video review of yours that you didn't like Blomstedt's latest Brahms cycle, which I agree with as well. I was looking around on some websites to get his latest Bruckner cycle with the Gewandhaus from the beginning of this year. What I realised everywhere is, that without exception people made very bad comments on it and the star reviews don't get higher than 2,5-3 stars. I would really love a short video about your thoughts on the matter. Is, probably, really his age the matter? I really enjoyed his Bruckner with the San Francisco and a little less so with his earlier Gewandhaus, but still. It never has been as bad.
@eddihaskell Жыл бұрын
I was lucky enough to attend Blomstedt conducting these concerts in person in San Francisco from the mid 80's to mid 90's at Davies Symphony Hall. Back then, you could buy an annual subscription in the second tier (6 seats) for not that much, but when singles came on sale in August, you could buy the chorus seats -- when of course a chorus was not playing -- and get a chose up view of "Herbie" as he was affectionately known. These seats sold out fast, I believe they were 10 or 12 dollars each back then. You could buy two of them for every concert, so I pretty much attended every concert Herbie ever did in San Francisco. (One thing -- Blomstedt would use a recording studio at Davies Symphony Hall, located under the actual stage. Tilson Thomas insisted on a live audience -- the space used for symphony recording sessions has now been transformed into a smaller performance space.
@CortJohnson Жыл бұрын
That was fun! An easy recommendation. Thanks!
@josephromance3908 Жыл бұрын
Wonderful review of a conductor I am just getting to know better.
@brucemiller53566 ай бұрын
for those who would like to buy the decca box, there are several available on ebay, from around 165-175 shipped from japan no charge
@dmntuba Жыл бұрын
Mahler 2 should be an event & this recording is a BIG event 👍
@joemahlerng Жыл бұрын
Blomstedt’s Bruckner 7th (Denon) is my top choice of this masterpiece, too bad he didn’t record a complete cycle on Decca.
@eddihaskell
Жыл бұрын
Yes, and he recorded the fourth early on with Dresden I believe. It was one of the first CD's I ever purchased back in the 80's, when not that much was out there at Tower Records.
@joemahlerng
Жыл бұрын
@@eddihaskell really? Never heard of it
@DavesClassicalGuide
Жыл бұрын
I find it dull--underplayed and too timid.
@FelipeMarinPerucci
Жыл бұрын
Doesn’t he have now a DVD cycle with Leipzig?
@samirray39147 ай бұрын
Thank you, David. I waited too long and now it is not available anymore except for astronomic prices. How can that be that it is released in May and completely out of print in November - while it was not even labelled as "Limited Edition"?
@saginawdavis
6 ай бұрын
It's crazy. Figured I'd have more time to pick one up given that it only came out in 2023. In fact, I had only become aware of it around the time it was all gone.
@bbailey7818 Жыл бұрын
Im enjoying this box immensely, though I already had some of it. One disagreement, I think Harbison's oboe concerto a knockout, just fantastic--and worth more than the other two works on the disc put together. 11:37 In the Hindemith Sinfonia Serena there are places where I see some important string writing on the page but simply don't hear them at all, more an engineer thing, I think, than Blomstedt. Yes, that Mahler 2 is glorious.
@Sathoreas Жыл бұрын
This looks like an amazing set! Dave, would you say this is worth buying on a limited budget if you already have the The San Francisco Years 15CD set Decca released previously?
@DavesClassicalGuide
Жыл бұрын
Well, I don't know how limited your budget it, but yes. Sell the old set and get this one.
@poturbg8698 Жыл бұрын
Were a number of these released barely or not at all in the US (like many of the Dohnanyi/CLE records)?
@eddihaskell
Жыл бұрын
I own all of the San Francisco recordings. I purchased them when they came out in the late 80s - late 90's. I am not sure about the European recordings on CD, I have some of them - and even more on vinyl, which I have not listened to in years. You cannot own a good quality turntable with pet cats.
@ernestrobles1510
Жыл бұрын
I recall the Sibelius 7 was not released in the US for quite sometime.
@mpmternst Жыл бұрын
Are there any production problems with this Decca set? (I’m watching the Ansermet disaster video.)
@danellewilbraham9 ай бұрын
My favorite Carmina Burana by far. RIP William Bennett.
@zdl1965 Жыл бұрын
Already got the smaller box! Such a pain to have to duplicate all those recordings. These labels know how to milk us listeners! How to resist?
@janouglaeser8049
Жыл бұрын
You can always try to sell the smaller one ;P
@zdl1965
Жыл бұрын
@@janouglaeser8049 Good idea! Will probably gift it to a friend!
@sjc1204 Жыл бұрын
Well, my box arrived but was damaged. Resolving now.
@geertdecoster5301 Жыл бұрын
Consoling it needs to be 🙂
@eddihaskell Жыл бұрын
Dave, can I ask you. Blomstedt did a Dvorak 8 with Dresden - one of his earlier recordings. Is it any good?
@DavesClassicalGuide
Жыл бұрын
Wonderful.
@eddihaskell
Жыл бұрын
@@DavesClassicalGuide Thanks, I will get it.
@ZviNetanel Жыл бұрын
I'm not really fond of his Strauss cycle, except for Alpensinfonie, really one of the greatest. He recorded Zarathustra with Dresden on Denon and that is a magnificent recording. Ein Heldenleben from about the same time also with Dresden is not at the same level.
@DavesClassicalGuide
Жыл бұрын
I'm not impressed by his Dresden Strauss as compared to Kempe, for example, nor is Dresden Bruckner, which I find simply boring.
@xavierotazu5805 Жыл бұрын
I suspect Finster has a crush on Blomstedt 😀
@barryguerrero6480 Жыл бұрын
I was pro Blomstedt when S.F. hired him, and I was pro Blomstedt when he stepped down, after some of the players spread the rumor that Blomstedt wasn't all that great, and was too much of a task master - making them stay until the end of the scheduled rehearsal time (god forbid). Now all that has come back to bite them, as Blomstedt is basically welcomed back as royalty by the paying audience. Sorry, but I've not been a fan of that orchestra ever since. Good, yes, but I think L.A. has the better hall and the better string section.
@sjc1204
Жыл бұрын
Agree on all your points including Los Angeles being the top west coast endemble. Well put.
@fredcasden Жыл бұрын
You're asking a cat to behave itself? That's not going to happen!
@borisivanchev61682 ай бұрын
And less then a year after, it is of course out of print 😕. And the worst part is - it's Decca and it's limited edition, so it's never coming back ever again. I really can't stand how utterly incompetent this company is. They rarely release what they have, and when they do, it goes out of print immediately, never to be seen again. These people did the same with the Monteux box, the Karajan one, the Haitink legacy (the Mahler, Shostakovich and Tchaikovsky cycles not being available is just criminal) and so on. And don't let me get started about how many problems the few boxes they release have - the Grumieux edition, the Ancerment... It's weird seeing one of the major labels being that incompetent and it's the only one that's that bad - Sony, DG, Warner, while not perfect, release more stuff, keep it in print, reissue it and so on. Sorry for the long rant, but I was devastated after ordering the box literally MONTHS ago, back when it was in print, it never arrived and when I asked what is happening they just answered that they don't have it anymore and it's now out of print. Sad stuff 😢
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Just saw a few hours ago a 95-year old Blomstedt conducting a spectacular Mendelssohn 3rd Symphony with Chamber Symphony of Europe in Cologne. Blomstedt is amazing. All the SF recordings I've heard of him are excellent indeed
Now on to a complete Decca Dohnanyi? Please?
@paulmiller5205
11 ай бұрын
Seconded, heartily!!!
@kanishknishar
5 ай бұрын
No commercial prospects sadly unlike yes even something like Blomstedt
We lovers of classical music truly are living in a golden age, with so much incredible music, of such high quality, previously difficult to obtain if not out of print, now so readily available in these gorgeous boxed sets, at modest price. It’s just unbelievably wonderful. This message can be lost in the “noise” if we get too nitpicky about detailed comparisons of various discs. (My favorite this, my favorite that - boy, don’t we have choices.) We should savor the moment. Thank you for your wonderful channel, I learn something new and enjoy myself with each video.
Excellent review as always. Happy I got to see him conduct the Bruckner 4 in person this year. I’m a huge Mendelssohn fan, so I’ll definitely have to check out the 3rd and 4th plus the Brahms choral stuff, since I’ve always defaulted back to the RIAS Kammerchor stuff with Marcus Creed for the Brahms choral stuff.
Got this box on your suggestion. Definitely made my long weekend (and many weekends to come). Thank you!
I'm not much of a CD collector, but I might have to pick this box up. So many of these discs are at the tippy top of the upper echelon of my absolute favorite recordings.
@eddihaskell
Жыл бұрын
The San Francisco recordings are my reference recordings, and have been since they have been released. I like Blomstedt's Bruckner 4 and 6 with San Francisco, and Schubert 9th -- the sonics are some of the best if you have a good digital play-back system. Straus Alpine Symphony is wonderful at high volumes, it can get your entire neighborhood shaking.
I have been waiting for this box. And just ordered my set. For the absurdly low price DECCA is asking, we should all fork out and buy the set. I of course have many of the recordings but great to see it all packaged together. Can’t wait to hear the hindemith. Dave. Great video
I've been a fan of SF symphony for years. They are a great, world class orchestra which has been super fortunate to have a long line of 1st class music directors, but the HB Era is musical magic. I will be purchasing this box 👍
Oh wow! I just ordered the box before it's out-of-print Decca style. I am so glad you broke this news for us. The first classical concert I attended was Blomstedt with San Francisco so these recordings are extremely meaningful to me. I have many of these discs but have not been able to find all of them for rational prices so I'm going to cherish this box.
@kanishknishar
5 ай бұрын
What was the program?
I will put this on my wish list! one of the greatest maestros of music history and life!
You have delivered good tidings.
Man, there's been too many great box sets released (or rereleased) so far this year and my bank account is not happy with me now. This Blomstedt Decca box; the re-print of the RCA Living Stereo box; the Haitink Decca Concertgebouw box; the Dorati Detroit box; the massive Abbado DG/Decca/Philips box; the Ansermet Stereo box; the Trevor Pinnock Archiv box; the John Eliot Gardiner Warner box; the Frank Peter Zimmermann Warner box; the updated Emerson String Quartet box; then the soon-to-be released Klemperer Warner box and I'm sure a number of others that I missed!
@sjc1204
Жыл бұрын
Do you have a favorite of all the box sets you listed? Even asking the question is unfair but I'm curious.
@DavesClassicalGuide
Жыл бұрын
I really haven't thought about it...
@buzzkill6857
Жыл бұрын
@@sjc1204 For me, probably the RCA Living Stereo box. There's just so many great recordings crammed in there. I missed it back when it was originally released, so I was really excited when I saw that Sony re-printed it (and made it available for a reasonable price). Of the [actually] new boxes, I'm probably most excited about the Klemperer box, though it's the only one from that list that isn't available yet.
That Till Eulenspiegel is fantastic, so it's incomprehensible that anyone would substitute anything else. (Does anyone talk about Kurt Masur any more? Does anyone recommend any of his recordings as being the "reference" of anything? I swear I haven't heard that name in years.) I was always surprised that Blomstedt never did any Schumann, since I thought he'd be great in that music. Considering how good he was at Mendelssohn, Schubert, Dvorak, Brahms, etc., his apparent aversion to Schumann was interesting, and I never heard any explanation as to why. Fortunately I already own all of the SFS recordings.
Thanks for another great review, Dave! :) I've seen on another video review of yours that you didn't like Blomstedt's latest Brahms cycle, which I agree with as well. I was looking around on some websites to get his latest Bruckner cycle with the Gewandhaus from the beginning of this year. What I realised everywhere is, that without exception people made very bad comments on it and the star reviews don't get higher than 2,5-3 stars. I would really love a short video about your thoughts on the matter. Is, probably, really his age the matter? I really enjoyed his Bruckner with the San Francisco and a little less so with his earlier Gewandhaus, but still. It never has been as bad.
I was lucky enough to attend Blomstedt conducting these concerts in person in San Francisco from the mid 80's to mid 90's at Davies Symphony Hall. Back then, you could buy an annual subscription in the second tier (6 seats) for not that much, but when singles came on sale in August, you could buy the chorus seats -- when of course a chorus was not playing -- and get a chose up view of "Herbie" as he was affectionately known. These seats sold out fast, I believe they were 10 or 12 dollars each back then. You could buy two of them for every concert, so I pretty much attended every concert Herbie ever did in San Francisco. (One thing -- Blomstedt would use a recording studio at Davies Symphony Hall, located under the actual stage. Tilson Thomas insisted on a live audience -- the space used for symphony recording sessions has now been transformed into a smaller performance space.
That was fun! An easy recommendation. Thanks!
Wonderful review of a conductor I am just getting to know better.
for those who would like to buy the decca box, there are several available on ebay, from around 165-175 shipped from japan no charge
Mahler 2 should be an event & this recording is a BIG event 👍
Blomstedt’s Bruckner 7th (Denon) is my top choice of this masterpiece, too bad he didn’t record a complete cycle on Decca.
@eddihaskell
Жыл бұрын
Yes, and he recorded the fourth early on with Dresden I believe. It was one of the first CD's I ever purchased back in the 80's, when not that much was out there at Tower Records.
@joemahlerng
Жыл бұрын
@@eddihaskell really? Never heard of it
@DavesClassicalGuide
Жыл бұрын
I find it dull--underplayed and too timid.
@FelipeMarinPerucci
Жыл бұрын
Doesn’t he have now a DVD cycle with Leipzig?
Thank you, David. I waited too long and now it is not available anymore except for astronomic prices. How can that be that it is released in May and completely out of print in November - while it was not even labelled as "Limited Edition"?
@saginawdavis
6 ай бұрын
It's crazy. Figured I'd have more time to pick one up given that it only came out in 2023. In fact, I had only become aware of it around the time it was all gone.
Im enjoying this box immensely, though I already had some of it. One disagreement, I think Harbison's oboe concerto a knockout, just fantastic--and worth more than the other two works on the disc put together. 11:37 In the Hindemith Sinfonia Serena there are places where I see some important string writing on the page but simply don't hear them at all, more an engineer thing, I think, than Blomstedt. Yes, that Mahler 2 is glorious.
This looks like an amazing set! Dave, would you say this is worth buying on a limited budget if you already have the The San Francisco Years 15CD set Decca released previously?
@DavesClassicalGuide
Жыл бұрын
Well, I don't know how limited your budget it, but yes. Sell the old set and get this one.
Were a number of these released barely or not at all in the US (like many of the Dohnanyi/CLE records)?
@eddihaskell
Жыл бұрын
I own all of the San Francisco recordings. I purchased them when they came out in the late 80s - late 90's. I am not sure about the European recordings on CD, I have some of them - and even more on vinyl, which I have not listened to in years. You cannot own a good quality turntable with pet cats.
@ernestrobles1510
Жыл бұрын
I recall the Sibelius 7 was not released in the US for quite sometime.
Are there any production problems with this Decca set? (I’m watching the Ansermet disaster video.)
My favorite Carmina Burana by far. RIP William Bennett.
Already got the smaller box! Such a pain to have to duplicate all those recordings. These labels know how to milk us listeners! How to resist?
@janouglaeser8049
Жыл бұрын
You can always try to sell the smaller one ;P
@zdl1965
Жыл бұрын
@@janouglaeser8049 Good idea! Will probably gift it to a friend!
Well, my box arrived but was damaged. Resolving now.
Consoling it needs to be 🙂
Dave, can I ask you. Blomstedt did a Dvorak 8 with Dresden - one of his earlier recordings. Is it any good?
@DavesClassicalGuide
Жыл бұрын
Wonderful.
@eddihaskell
Жыл бұрын
@@DavesClassicalGuide Thanks, I will get it.
I'm not really fond of his Strauss cycle, except for Alpensinfonie, really one of the greatest. He recorded Zarathustra with Dresden on Denon and that is a magnificent recording. Ein Heldenleben from about the same time also with Dresden is not at the same level.
@DavesClassicalGuide
Жыл бұрын
I'm not impressed by his Dresden Strauss as compared to Kempe, for example, nor is Dresden Bruckner, which I find simply boring.
I suspect Finster has a crush on Blomstedt 😀
I was pro Blomstedt when S.F. hired him, and I was pro Blomstedt when he stepped down, after some of the players spread the rumor that Blomstedt wasn't all that great, and was too much of a task master - making them stay until the end of the scheduled rehearsal time (god forbid). Now all that has come back to bite them, as Blomstedt is basically welcomed back as royalty by the paying audience. Sorry, but I've not been a fan of that orchestra ever since. Good, yes, but I think L.A. has the better hall and the better string section.
@sjc1204
Жыл бұрын
Agree on all your points including Los Angeles being the top west coast endemble. Well put.
You're asking a cat to behave itself? That's not going to happen!
And less then a year after, it is of course out of print 😕. And the worst part is - it's Decca and it's limited edition, so it's never coming back ever again. I really can't stand how utterly incompetent this company is. They rarely release what they have, and when they do, it goes out of print immediately, never to be seen again. These people did the same with the Monteux box, the Karajan one, the Haitink legacy (the Mahler, Shostakovich and Tchaikovsky cycles not being available is just criminal) and so on. And don't let me get started about how many problems the few boxes they release have - the Grumieux edition, the Ancerment... It's weird seeing one of the major labels being that incompetent and it's the only one that's that bad - Sony, DG, Warner, while not perfect, release more stuff, keep it in print, reissue it and so on. Sorry for the long rant, but I was devastated after ordering the box literally MONTHS ago, back when it was in print, it never arrived and when I asked what is happening they just answered that they don't have it anymore and it's now out of print. Sad stuff 😢