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^^ Fergus, the LVB & Brahms VCs are my favourite two, by some considerable way ahead of all other comers. The Sibelius, Mendelssohn, Tchaikovsky, Bruch & Elgar are all wonderful and would be in the next batch, but the former are magnificent edifices of Romanticism...

nothing disconcerting about this one... a lovely disk!

well, I couldn't resist any longer... but seriously folks, that's about it from me in this thread for the time being!

nice to see you're enjoying a bit of Rossini at present Sean, and thanks for the links!

the Watkins Court opera group will be indulging in 'The Barber of Seville' on 11th Dec, as the club goes from strength to strength!

I have managed 157...(struggled with a lot of 20th century). I noticed quite a few Renaissance composers in there, many of whom I have heard of course... but if your collection only goes as far back as Bach, I think you could be quite disadvantaged.

I have the Perlman/ Barenboim set which I'm quite satisfied with. Whilst I have always enjoyed these works (indeed, this is a very early box set of mine), the works have never spoken to me sufficiently strongly to warrant the purchase of a 2nd set.... although of course that might change in the futu...

I'm up for a bit of Mozart at present however: Masses K139 & K167 from this set....

http://i302.photobucket.com/albums/nn99/fandango68/b%20Baroque/51lt2oUOtL__SY450__zpsbe8ed237.jpg winding down the purchases a bit at present (no, seriously!) but this arrived a couple of days ago. I owned 2 of the disks already, but I'm very keen to become acquainted with the other five instrument...

^ almost looks good enough for me to take a swim over, from Holyhead...