(Those who purchased them in an earlier coffee-table edition from Teldec can buy a "lite" version of Bach 2000, without those cantatas, for $850 rather than the full $1,250.)Īs with those versions, most of the recordings are reissues. There are treasures galore, starting with the already historic complete series of sacred cantatas led by Nikolaus Harnoncourt and Gustav Leonhardt in the 1970s and '80s.
And in a manner not calculated to appeal to serious collectors, with CDs already spilling off their shelves, it holds mostly air repackaged sensibly in soft plastic sleeves, the CDs and booklets shrink down to fit into less than two shoe boxes. In contrast to the Harmonia Mundi project, appearing in small packages ranging from single CDs to a 12-CD set, the Teldec load was dumped in a single box make that suitcase.Expanding on the rage (among producers if not necessarily consumers) for monster coffee-table packages, this box might itself serve as a coffee table. But several things can be noted at the outset. The first thundering volleys in the record wars of the Bach year (the 250th anniversary of his death) have been fired by Teldec, which has released Bach - all of Bach - on 153 CDs, and Harmonia Mundi France, which is releasing some half of Bach, evidently, on 81 CDs.Ī full review of this largess will take time, obviously: perhaps the rest of a lifetime.
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