Given all the fabulous classical box sets that appeared this year, you'd think we were in some kind of boom era for music served up on compact discs. (2013? More like 1993.) Why?

Given all the fabulous classical box sets that appeared this year, you'd think we were in some kind of boom era for music served up on compact discs. (2013? More like 1993.) Why?

The 17-CD DG set presents the conductor with the ensemble he loved most, Pittsburgh, which he headed from 1952 to 1976. (Incredibly, he remained Pittsburgh’s music director even after assuming ...

The best part of the Michel Corboz classical and romantic box set is the sacred choral music by Mendelssohn. Corboz is not as well-known for his classical and romantic era recordings.

The set starts with 11th-century Gregorian chant, continues through Renaissance (such as Tallis and Palestrina), Baroque (Monteverdi, Vivaldi, Bach, Handel, Purcell), classical (Haydn, Mozart ...

reviews, news & interviews Classical CDs: Big boxes, Russian ballets, wind concertos and baroque sonatas Box sets celebrating Italian conductors, plus a pair of contrasting piano discs and 20th ...

This five-CD set celebrates the 30 th anniversary of the chamber music festival that the intrepid Latvian violinist Gidon Kremer founded in the small Austrian village of Lockenhaus.

Given all the fabulous classical box sets that appeared this year, you'd think we were in some kind of boom era for music served up on compact discs. (2013? More like 1993.) Why?

Now it is Beethoven’s turn, with a handsome Brilliant Classics boxed set of all of Ludwig van Beethoven’s works on 85 CDs that should have a mighty appeal to collectors.

The first CD alone (containing almost 87 minutes of music!) in this five-disc set should be enough to convince you to buy the whole thing. Andrew Litton’s Bergen Philharmonic deliver one of the ...