I enjoyed
Greg Sandow's review of sets of the "complete works" of Bach:
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It wasn't as large as I expected, only the size of a small suitcase, and at 22 pounds it weighed less than I thought it would -- "it" being "Bach 2000" from Teldec records, the complete works of Bach on 153 CDs.
And what's more surprising still is that this mammoth project has competition. The Hänssler company in Germany is releasing its own Bach on a projected 170 CDs, and insists that Teldec's set isn't really complete!
I wrote in my own Bach essay (TheCosmicBach):
