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George Szell - The Complete Columbia Album Collection (2018)

George Szell - The Complete Columbia Album Collection (2018)
  • Title: The Complete Columbia Album Collection
  • Year Of Release: 2018
  • Label: Sony Classical
  • Genre: Classical
  • Quality: APE (image + .cue, log, artwork)
  • Total Time: 3d 16:08:44 (106 CDs)
  • Total Size: 22.4 GB
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George Szell - The Complete Columbia Album Collection (2018)


Coinciding with the orchestra's centenary in 2018, Sony Classical is excited to announce one of the most ambitious reissue projects of recent times, a comprehensive collection of the Clevelanders recordings made under the baton of their iconic fourth music director. These span the period between 1947 a year after Szell (born in Budapest in 1897) inherited a fine provincial orchestra from Erich Leinsdorf and began transforming it into the elite ensemble it remains to this day and 1969, a year before his sudden death shocked the musical world. Szell's dream was to create an ensemble that combined the Americans purity and beauty of sound and their virtuosity of execution with the European sense of tradition, warmth of expression and sense of style, in the words of his biographer Michael Charry. That he fulfilled that dream is amply documented in the huge discography that fills Sony s new mega-box of 106 CDs, recordings that are prized for their stylistic rightness, clarity of structure, rhythmic tension, and transparency of texture (The New Yorker). Contained in this vast box are rare mono recordings, some of which have never before appeared on CD. There are also the recordings Szell made in the early 1950s as guest conductor of the New York Philharmonic, including the Tchaikovsky Piano Concerto with Vladimir Horowitz. There are the pianist George Szell’s outstanding chamber music recordings, including Mozart with the Budapest Quartet. There are also substantial interviews with the maestro. But the main attraction of this stupendous new set is the prospect of having all the Szell-Cleveland repertoire under a single roof for the first time and in optimal sound with 92 recordings remastered from the original analogue tapes using 24 bit / 192 kHz technology.

· The first ever collection of George Szell’s Complete Recordings for Columbia Masterworks on 106 CDs

· Symphonies, overtures and other orchestral works, concertos and chamber music, recorded from 1946 to 1969

· 92 recordings remastered from the original analogue tapes using 24 bit / 192 kHz technology

· An all-embracing survey of George Szell’s recorded achievements with The Cleveland Orchestra, spanning some 23 years of recording

· Includes collaborations with Robert Casadesus, Rudolf Firkušný, Leon Fleisher, Gary Graffman, Vladimir Horowitz, Rudolf Serkin, Zino Francescatti, Isaac Stern, Joseph Szigeti, Pierre Fournier, Leonard Rose and Judith Raskin, and recordings with the New York Philharmonic and the Columbia Symphony Orchestra

· Hard-cover illustrated coffee table book with an essay by Jürgen Kesting, photos from the Cleveland Orchestra archives, full discographical notes and work index

· Facsimile LP sleeves and labels


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  • hollinsuk
  •  wrote in 17:19
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Many thanks for sharing this mammoth collection.

Very much appreciated.

Cheers.
  • kervella
  •  wrote in 17:47
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Merci pour cette merveille !
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  • zerubem
  •  wrote in 18:05
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Do you have this recording, denlenz? Thanks for all the great sharing!

https://www.hyperion-records.co.uk/dc.asp?dc=D_CDA68196
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  • awalzem
  •  wrote in 16:50
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Spectacular!! Thank you so much for this. I look forward to the rest. You are awesome.
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  • mimicry
  •  wrote in 12:02
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Thank you very very much!
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  • awalzem
  •  wrote in 13:47
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Thanks a million for continuing with this spectacular set. You wouldn't believe how many times I check every day, to see if you had uploaded more. I appreciate it very much :-D
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  • Merry-Go-Round
  •  wrote in 17:49
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This is a very nice collection indeed!
Unfortunately, half of the disc are ripped in BURST mode (EAC).
What does this mean? (http://www.exactaudiocopy.de/en/index.php/overview/basic-technology/extraction-technology/)
"Burst copy is even worse, no synchronization is performed at all, enabling extraction at maximum speed of the drive. No error checking of any kind is done. For burst mode there is at least a small indicator of the extracted track quality. If the stream ever breaks, it will tell the user in the status report by showing up suspicous positions. Of course this is only an heuristic; there needn’t be any errors on these positions; moreover there could be errors that are not found at all."
I notified the uploader. Hope he can fix this.
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  • senormusic
  •  wrote in 19:42
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Thank you so much. Waiting for the rest
  • Guest awalzem
  •  wrote in 02:08
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Thanks a lot for putting up the final section! I really appreciate it.
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  • Rabisox
  •  wrote in 02:03
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Warm thanks for this huge box-set – and by the way for your numerous excellent posts!
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  • Daverz
  •  wrote in 17:24
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If anyone is still worried, I think there is only one disc that doesn't have matching Accuraterip checksums, according to the log files.

Here's a useful Szell discography for sorting out all the recording dates:

http://lee.classite.com/music/Szell/discography-szell-2.htm