budget 8CD Mozart 250th box

[CJ Shearn]

My friend (who admittedly knows little about music) got me an 8CD box of Mozart a 250th Anniversary edition for X-mas on the el cheapo and much maligned Madacy label. I've heard that Madacy has begun getting recordings licensed from Sony and EMI, so far the sound is ok, are the recordings on this box licensed from Sony, EMI or other major classical labels? a link to the box is here http://www.amazon.com/Mozart-250th-Anniver...7542&sr=8-1

[Claude]

This looks like a repackaged budget set from the 1980s. Recordings from mostly unknown performers (except Leitner and Rilling), of dubious origins.

Thanks to Naxos, which in the 1990's started offering high quality recordings at budget price, the market for this sort of reissues has almost disappeared. The price should rather be 50 Cent per disc.

[Chuck Nessa]

Kehr, Swarowsky and possibly Rilling would be from Vox, Somary probably Vanguard.