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Re: Solti boxes

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by: drh8h - Fri, 17 Dec 2021 13:09 UTC

On Friday, April 11, 2014 at 4:12:21 PM UTC-4, Brian Burtt wrote:
> I wonder if anybody has any knowledge (or thoughts or wild speculation) in this day of discount big boxes, how Georg Solti's recordings might be reissued.
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> (Before the naysayers jump in...chalk my interest up to the nostalgia of "learning" classical music by listening to the radio in Michigan, where Solti's recordings were a frequent feature.)
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> It looked like there was a plan, with boxes deoted to the operas of Wagner, Strauss, Verdi, Mozart, and the orchestral works of Bartok, and then...nothing.
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> And then the strange Soltissimo 2 box that appears to be (have been?) a South Korea only release.
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> --Brian

There were four Soltissimo boxes covering his entire career with Decca. Box 1 also had his one-off German Requiem for Capitol. As far as I know, the only cd issue ever of that performance.

Honesty's the best policy. -- Miguel de Cervantes

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