Amazing deal for Lenny/DG Mahler Box Set just for $12.99!!

[John Kim]

http://offers.themusicalheritagesociety.com/classic_box_sets/

[Damfino]

I wonder if that might be a misprint? I received an email from them a week or so ago inviting me to rejoin MHS, and one of the offerings was Lenny's Original CBS set. The picture shown there is DG, but the description says "N Y Phil".

[John Kim]

I wonder if that might be a misprint? I received an email from them a week or so ago inviting me to rejoin MHS, and one of the offerings was Lenny's Original CBS set. The picture shown there is DG, but the description says "N Y Phil".

You're absolutely right.

The DG set must contain only 11 discs. So it must be the old Lenny/NYPO/Sony set.

The question is, if this is the latest remastered box set based on DSD or the old one?

If it is the former, I'd definitely go for it.

John,

[Jeff Wozniak]

The picture is definitely the DG set.  In that set Bernstein used the NYPO for the 2nd, 3rd & 7th symphonies.

Amazon lists the DG set as 11 CDs.

http://www.amazon.com/Mahler-Symphonies-Leonard-Bernstein/dp/B0033QC0WY/ref=sr_1_1?s=music&ie=UTF8&qid=1320961979&sr=1-1

[James Meckley]

The image clearly represents the recent DG set, comprising 11 discs and three orchestras, but that set doesn't match the written description provided. If you click on the image, you get additional information, and end up with a description of a 12-disc set featuring only one orchestra (the NYPO) and containing "the complete symphonies and orchestral songs." Neither the pictured DG set nor the recently Meyer-remastered Sony "Carnegie Hall" set contain 12 discs or any orchestral songs.

The Bernstein set which most closely matches the above description is this one, with 12 discs, NYPO (except M8), and some orchestral songs (Kindertotenlieder and Rückert Lieder):

http://www.amazon.com/Mahler-Complete-Symphonies-%7E-Bernstein/dp/B0000589BP/ref=sr_1_2?s=music&ie=UTF8&qid=1320970117&sr=1-2

Clearly a marketing screw-up. If I were interested in any of these sets, I'd contact MHS for clarification, but I already own the two most recent.

James

[John Kim]

James, thanks for your clarification.

I will pass up this set.

If only it was the remastered set.....

John,