In his enthusiastic review of the CPO issue of J.N.David's Symphonies Nos.3 and 7 Rob Barnett commends the company's "stalwart adhesion to a project". I would certainly endorse that comment.
However there is a serious caveat.
There have been three releases in this project: in 2014 Symphonies Nos. 1&6, recorded in February and March 2011; in 2018 (ie 7 years later) Symphonies 2&4, recorded (as far back as September 2008); and now (after another gap of 7 years) Symphonies Nos.3&7, recorded in March 2014 (ie 11 years ago).
It is, to my mind, inexplicable that a series like this should be strung out over in excess of a decade and that recordings made well over a decade ago should sit on CPO's shelves for such an incredibly lengthy time. CPO has loyal customers but those who would wish-as do I- to collect a complete series should not be required to wait for a quite ridiculously extended time. In plain but sadly inevitable circumstances some of us who started collecting this series may not live to enjoy its completion! Does this not occur to those responsible for these extraordinary release scheduling decisions?