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Complete Mozart Edition (Philips): Are you ready to expand your compact-disc collection by 180 titles?

Have room in your CD library for about 8 feet of shelf space?

Then you may well be in the market for one of the most ambitious projects in recording history: Philips' Complete Mozart Edition, a set of 45 volumes (each containing between one and 12 CDs) devoted to the entire output of Mozart.

Other labels, of course, are releasing Mozart editions to commemorate the bicentennial of the composer's death - the perfect excuse for an avalanche of Mozartiana, not only in the recording studios but also in the concert halls and the book-publishing world.

But the other recording labels are restricting themselves to special editions culled from Mozart favorites, genre by genre (symphony, concerto, etc.) or year by year (the best of works 1785, 1786, etc.). Philips is doing the whole thing, including Mozart's arrangements of works by other composers (except for four Handel oratorios, including the "Messiah").

Most of these performances are culled from Philips' existing catalog, in which some 250 artists and ensembles have been selected as contributors to the Mozart edition. Among these are the Academy of St. Martin-in-the-Fields, Elly Ameling, Alfred Brendel, John Eliot Gardiner, Dame Kiri Te Kanawa, Jessye Norman, the Labeque Duo and Mitsuko Uchida, to list only a few.

Philips also has gone on to record any missing bits and pieces. Some of these are pretty substantial (a whole opera) and some aren't (a 17-second keyboard Andante). Some of the Mozartean scores will appear on CD for the first time - an appearance Philips is billing as "one and a half hours of `new' Mozart."

Here is your chance to hear the early operas "Apollo et Hyacinthus" and "Ascanio in Alba," possibly for the first time; selections from the composer's London notebook; and later arrangements of "Harmoniemusik" from the later operas. There are intermezzos, snippets of ballet music, incidental pieces, and all kinds of bits and pieces you may never have encountered before. The guiding principle, as musicologist Erik Smith explains it, was that "the pleasure given by the music should exceed the frustration of having it cut off before its time."

Typical of the excellence of this set is Vol. 8, a four-CD set of the violin concertos, immaculately played by the late Henryk Szeryng. Szeryng's lovely tone and the infallible musical instinct that produced such beautiful phrasing are immortalized here. The Sinfonia Concertantes - the famous and the not-so-famous one - also are rendered with great style and polish by Iona Brown, Nobuko Imai and Stephen Orton. The program book accompanying the violin concertos is a minor masterpiece in itself - but nothing compared to the much larger program book accompanying the complete set, which concludes with a masterly update of the Koechel catalog of all Mozart's works. - Melinda Bargreen

VIDEO MOVIES

"To Sleep With Anger." In this mischievous, ambivalent 1990 comedy-drama, written and directed by Charles Burnett, Danny Glover gives an ingenious performance as a Mississippi storyteller named Harry, who arrives at the Los Angeles home of his retired friend, Gideon, and proceeds to flush out the tensions in three generations of Gideon's family. Is Harry a pathetic old coot, or a would-be shaman, or a buffoonish con man? Or could he be some kind of devil - the "trickster" of African and Deep South legends, who comes to town to steal your soul? That's for Burnett to ask and us to find out. Winner of the National Society of Film Critics' award for best screenplay, Burnett's film wound up on several "10 best" lists but never took off at the box office.

"Green Card." Directed by heavyweight Australian filmmaker Peter Weir ("Dead Poets Society," "Witness"), this is a surprisingly charming lightweight romance about a Frenchman (Gerard Depardieu) who marries a New Yorker (Andie MacDowell) in order to remain in the United States. The plot couldn't be more predictable. Maybe it works because Weir and Depardieu have just put on blinders and pretended not to notice the boundaries of the familiar path they're following. Whatever the reason, Weir got an Oscar nomination for his screenplay earlier this year, and Depardieu picked up a Golden Globe for his performance.

"White Fang." Ethan Hawke, who brought a welcome touch of spontaneity to the role of the tongue-tied Todd in "Dead Poets Society," is perfectly cast as the boyish hero, Jack, in this ruggedly handsome, exciting new Disney version of the Jack London story. An irresistible creature named Jed, owned and trained by Cliff Rowe, plays the half wolf/half dog of the title. James Remar is the vicious thief who turns him into a fighting dog, and Klaus Maria Brandauer plays the reluctant Klondike guide who becomes Jack's gold-mining partner. A sleeper box-office hit back in January, "White Fang" should be one of the more popular video releases this summer.

"Killer's Kiss." Stanley Kubrick's first feature-length movie, "Fear and Desire," has not been available in any format since the 1950s, but this second attempt as a director is now making its video debut. It's a curious apprentice work: a visually ambitious, thinly written 1955 melodrama about a boxer, a jealous gangster and his girlfriend. Kubrick's talent didn't really bloom until "The Killing" came out one year later. Warner Home Video and MGM/UA Home Video are reissuing several remastered Kubrick classics at bargain rates this week. Available for $20 apiece are "Paths of Glory," "Lolita," "The Killing," "A Clockwork Orange," "Full Metal Jacket," "The Shining" and the first letterboxed cassette of "2001: A Space Odyssey." For $30, you can also pick up the double-cassette "Barry Lyndon." - John Hartl

SCREEN GEMS

John Hartl's suggestions for when the New Releases bin is bare:

1. "Marius." Marcel Pagnol, the French writer-filmmaker whose childhood inspired "My Father's Glory" (which opens tomorrow at the Egyptian Theatre), had one of his earliest successes with this 1931 tale of a Marseilles boy who leaves his girlfriend to go to sea.

2. "Fanny." The cast of "Marius" was reunited for this 1932 sequel, in which the now-pregnant title character marries an old widower. (Leslie Caron and Maurice Chevalier starred in Hollywood's 1961 remake, whiso available on tape.)

3. "Cesar." Pagnol, who had written and produced the first two installments in his "Marseilles Trilogy," made his debut as a director with this final episode: a three-hour account of the seafaring boy's return to his family 20 years later.

VIDEO BARGAIN OF THE WEEK

"The Prince and the Pauper" (Disney Home Video, $12.99). This 1990 Disney featurette plays like a condensed version of an animated feature based on the Mark Twain story. It's full of charmingly animated bits, snatches of songs and good comedy ideas that don't quite get a chance to develop. Mickey Mouse and Goofy, however, get to perform one entire number together.