DF-D's Male-Songs-Only Box

[virginia]

Not much activity here lately so here goes. Some of you will remember I was dithering about whether to buy the theme-based version or the chronology-based version of the Hyperion complete Schubert edition. I'm still dithering, mainly because I can't find the theme-based box at any kind of a discount. But there's an alternative that I don't think I'll be able to resist.

Amazon currently has for sale Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau's box of songs composed for male voice -- all 21 glorious discs, 460-some songs -- in two iterations (links below). I'm assuming the audio content in these boxes is identical, and that the "only" thing missing is the booklet. Can anyone confirm that? I've got the Reed book of lieder so I'm not completely without resource if I go the cheap route.

Here's the original: http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00...pf_rd_i=507846

And here's the cheaper one (presumably without the texts?): http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00...pf_rd_i=507846

Thanks, folks. Hoping to hear more talk about Schubert here.

[virginia]

Okay, I bought the male-voice-only edition of Schubert songs. Twenty-one discs, more than 470 songs, some 1,500 minutes of music, all for the rock-bottom price of about $43. Now, can anybody tell me how these songs are grouped? There is no clue either in the liner notes or in the pdf's that Deutsche Grammophon provides on their site. It could be chronologically, by some kind of theme that I haven't divined, or random. I've listened to disc 1 and will go through about one disc a week for the next, oh, five months or so.