Peter Goldstein replies to me:

>>I have trouble understanding why anyone would want an integral set
>>of Mozart - or any major composer, for that matter, unless one had
>>musical-history impulses.
>
>Yes, but those are some of the best impulses! At various times in my life,
>I have listened to the integral Beethoven, Mozart, Haydn (at least those
>available on record), Brahms, Bruckner, Mahler, Verdi, and Bartok. The
>insight you get into the development of individual composers, and their
>relationship to those that preceded them, is priceless. ...

I agree.  What I meant by "integral" was all the works recorded by the same
musicians.

Steve Schwartz