Containing six discs and 111 tracks, Deutsche Grammophon's 111 Years of Deutsche Grammophon is a sprawling collection of single items drawn largely from its enormous 55 CD 111 Years of Deutsche Grammophon The Collector's Edition. The good news is that it's not a very expensive product, and the package itself is pretty impressive; the box contains a sort of over-wide digipak with six slim plastic holders inside and a slim booklet with complete track listings, but only six lines of notes. Although much of its contents are ...
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Containing six discs and 111 tracks, Deutsche Grammophon's 111 Years of Deutsche Grammophon is a sprawling collection of single items drawn largely from its enormous 55 CD 111 Years of Deutsche Grammophon The Collector's Edition. The good news is that it's not a very expensive product, and the package itself is pretty impressive; the box contains a sort of over-wide digipak with six slim plastic holders inside and a slim booklet with complete track listings, but only six lines of notes. Although much of its contents are excerpted, DG at least tries to keep to complete movements and to mix them up with pieces that are reasonably complete in themselves. Perhaps it's too much to expect that the collection itself has some coherence as a whole, which it does not; you would need an A-list producer to put together something this big and diverse and to have it flow forward in a continuously pleasing thread. This is more like the kids putting together a nice -- if very long -- mixtape from mom and dad's record...
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