Deryk Barker wrote:

>Brenten Davis ([log in to unmask]) wrote:
>
>hello, i'm kind of new to this all, but i have a question for you all. does
>anyone know if there is a cd collection Mozart's K1-K626, and where it is?
>
>I have the feeling that Philips issued a series of boxed sets in 1991
>for the bicentenary of Mozart's death.

Excellent feeling, Deryk.  The set has actually been recently re-issued:

   http://www.philipsclassics.com/class/464/464660.htm

presumably at lower prices.  It's in space-saving boxes, but I believe
you don't get extensive liner notes or libretti to operas (which may be
inconvenient for the original poster if he's new to classical music).  In
this respect, many boxes from the 1991 set (180 CDs) were quite a hoot,
since the liner notes in each of four languages were often written by four
or at least three different people, who often claimed contradictory things
about the same pieces.  It was really great.

Several items from the original 1991 set have been already reissued within
the last few years on Philips Duo.  Actually, the 1991 set consisted of
reissues, too.

>Koechel's original catalogue has been revised and there are more than
>626 works in the revised version.

If I may, Deryk:  there was no *the* revised version; there were 3-1/2
revised versions since the original edition, and a completely new edition
is due "soon".  It's true that works have been added, but on the other
hand, many works were also deleted.  And we will always have works of
doubtful authenticity, and there are many of them.  A generous count of
works that Mozart wrote, including lost works, comes to about 800 items,
but there is a bit of inconsistency when it comes to counting unfinished
works, and of course a lot of doubts regarding the authorship of many
works.

-Margaret Mikulska