How many records do you own that you never play ?

[EdgeleyRob]

Well,I downloaded the complete Dvorak String Quartets the other day (Stamitz Quartet)to add another 10 cds worth to my collection.
I can safely say that I will never listen to the disc containing the 3rd quartet in D Major (B 18) again.
The thing lasts an astonishing 73 MINUTES !!! and,to be honest,I don't think the music is interesting enough to warrant such an epic work.

[Eine Alpensinfonie]

I can safely say that I will never listen to the disc containing the 3rd quartet in D Major (B 18) again.
The thing lasts an astonishing 73 MINUTES !!! and,to be honest,I don't think the music is interesting enough to warrant such an epic work.

That sounds like too many repeats.

[cloughie]

Well,I downloaded the complete Dvorak String Quartets the other day (Stamitz Quartet)to add another 10 cds worth to my collection.
I can safely say that I will never listen to the disc containing the 3rd quartet in D Major (B 18) again.
The thing lasts an astonishing 73 MINUTES !!! and,to be honest,I don't think the music is interesting enough to warrant such an epic work.

Maybe all composers go through the learning curve of including chaff with wheat!

[Sir Velo]

Many people drive on UK motorways at 80 or more, and sometimes it's veering on insanity to drive slower if there are other idiots driving up one's rear at high speed and there's nowhere to go since the whole road in front is packed with others all exceding the limit.

You wouldn't be one of those middle lane hoggers by any chance?

[Dave2002]

You wouldn't be one of those middle lane hoggers by any chance?

Sometimes yes! Perhaps it depends where you drive, but on the motorways round London they are often so full that there's no point in changing lanes. Anyway, are you one of the mad petrolheads driving a BMW or SUV and flashing lights in the outside lane at anyone doing less than 80 by any chance?

[ARBurton]

I have long harboured a fear that I am becoming too much like Fafner guarding his hoard, unable to do anything except that. I exaggerate, of course, but nevertheless I have wondered how many recordings I do actually need. I have downsized quite considerably in one sense - in that I have tried to reduce the number of multiple recordings of things ie multiple Brahms or Beethoven symphony cycles etc, but deciding which to keep is sooooooo difficult! And I have continued to buy more cds, mainly new repertoire, but not exclusively. And I think I could no more reduce my Wagner collection than I could reduce my limb count!

[Serial_Apologist]

As something of a completist, I do choose to hang onto recordings of pieces that I might regard as minor works in a composer's oeuvre for the sake of representative coverage rather than because I like them, so that when someone visits he or she can point to a particular recording and say, "Ah, knowing your preferences, I'm surprised see you have that particular song by Poulenc, which I've always loved. Would you mind putting it on for me?" What I don't understand is people who own innumerable copies of a particular work because they prefer movement 1 by this conductor and orchestra, movement 2 by that, and so on; to me it just seems such an artificial way to listen to music.

[pastoralguy]

As something of a completist, I do choose to hang onto recordings of pieces that I might regard as minor works in a composer's oeuvre for the sake of representative coverage rather than because I like them, so that when someone visits he or she can point to a particular recording and say, "Ah, knowing your preferences, I'm surprised see you have that particular song by Poulenc, which I've always loved. Would you mind putting it on for me?" What I don't understand is people who own innumerable copies of a particular work because they prefer movement 1 by this conductor and orchestra, movement 2 by that, and so on; to me it just seems such an artificial way to listen to music.

Well, for me in the case of the Beethoven violin concerto, it's more a case of Heifetz plays this bar better than Milstein or Menuhin is better at the introduction to the last movement than Hilary Hanh, Anne-Sophie Mutter or Schlomo Mintz...

[mikealdren]

PG I agree, with my many violin concerto recordings, there are some I'll never listen to again but individual performances have their own character and there isn't always a best in RR terms. For instance, I can't imaging being without Kreisler's Beethoven, or Oistrakh's or Heifetz or Hilary Hahn or Schneiderhan or Kulenkampff or Grumiaux or ......

It's also interesting to go back to performances after some time and see how my views/taste may have changed over the years.

[Eine Alpensinfonie]

Sometimes yes! Perhaps it depends where you drive, but on the motorways round London they are often so full that there's no point in changing lanes. Anyway, are you one of the mad petrolheads driving a BMW or SUV and flashing lights in the outside lane at anyone doing less than 80 by any chance?

[Bryn]

Those not as yet played are legion. However, prominent among them are the 5 CDs so far released of Sorabji's Transcendental Studies (Nos. 1 to 83), as played by Fredrik Ullén. I'm waiting 'till the count gets to 100 before I listen to them all in succession.