Multiple recordings on your shelves

[Jonathan]

I think I might have about 30 recordings of Liszt's Sonata in B minor.

[jayne lee wilson]

My own multiples tend to be of less familiar less-recorded works, so I have most of the Roussel or Dutilleux cycles extant, and most of the Honegger or Roberto Gerhard sets or issues...
With Maderna or Lutoslawski or Skalkottas I usually bought anything & everything I could find....... thank God for streaming!

I must have around 10 Beethoven Symphony Cycles, telling my own tale from larger SOs to Chamber and Period Instrument, 1940s to The Present......similarly with Concertos....many single issues, often of live material...
Same story with Bruckner or Schumann, Schubert or Haydn of course....it tends be about a fascination with different, or differently evolving, performance styles and traditions....

[teamsaint]

Would be interested in how many accidental duplications people have. Many would be fillers of course.

I must have at least half a dozen versions of " In the South" without having ever actually bought one deliberately.

I also have a larger number of recordings of Pierrot Lunaire than I set out to accumulate........

[Pulcinella]

Would be interested in how many accidental duplications people have. Many would be fillers of course.

I must have at least half a dozen versions of " In the South" without having ever actually bought one deliberately.

I also have a larger number of recordings of Pierrot Lunaire than I set out to accumulate........

Not sure how many, but certainly a fair few RVW Tallis Fantasias here; it tends to crop up in lots of English string music compilations, more so than the seemingly ubiquitous Lark!

[Mario]

I would love to contribute to this thread, except my microscopically small CD collection would be a huge public embarrassment.

Without wishing to highjack Pulcinella’s thread, may I ask particularly those that have many recordings of one work, say into double figures, if any performances of a work disappoint, and would warrant, in hindsight, disposal?

Mario

[Bryn]

I would love to contribute to this thread, except my microscopically small CD collection would be a huge public embarrassment.

Without wishing to highjack Pulcinella’s thread, may I ask particularly those that have many recordings of one work, say into double figures, if any performances of a work disappoint, and would warrant, in hindsight, disposal?

Mario

The trouble is that if I find a particular recorded performance falls so far below what I consider worth listening to, I feel guilty about imposing it upon someone else, say, via a charity shop. The other side of that coin is that I will occasionally find that my taste/understanding develops or degrades over the years, and a recorded performacne that I once found unpalatable I find of considerable interest on listening again.

[Pulcinella]

I would love to contribute to this thread, except my microscopically small CD collection would be a huge public embarrassment.

Without wishing to highjack Pulcinella’s thread, may I ask particularly those that have many recordings of one work, say into double figures, if any performances of a work disappoint, and would warrant, in hindsight, disposal?

Mario

Nice idea: I've started a new thread!

The trouble is that if I find a particular recorded performance falls so far below what I consider worth listening to, I feel guilty about imposing it upon someone else, say, via a charity shop. The other side of that coin is that I will occasionally find that my taste/understanding develops or degrades over the years, and a recorded performacne that I once found unpalatable I find of considerable interest on listening again.

I'd go along with that, Bryn (both the guilt and the re-appraisal aspects), but I have got rid of some horrors in my time!

[cloughie]

Would be interested in how many accidental duplications people have. Many would be fillers of course.

I must have at least half a dozen versions of " In the South" without having ever actually bought one deliberately.

I also have a larger number of recordings of Pierrot Lunaire than I set out to accumulate........

...and dozens of Boleros - I think I’ve mentioned my dislike of this work compared to my love of everything else Ravel wrote, on threads in the past. Unfortunately this 15 min work turns up frequently like a very bad penny.

[Eine Alpensinfonie]

I suspect that this, Alpie apart as a special case, will be between Cloughie, HighlandDougie and myself!

So I’m to be disqualified?

Nevertheless, I win with
103
Alpine Symphonies. until cloughie makes a greater claim)

That said, two of the DVD performances (Sinopoli and Zinman) are identical to their CD versions, so maybe it’s only 101.:



I also have every version of Elgar’s Light of Life (2 versions), Caractacus (3 versions), The Apostles (4 versions)

[Roslynmuse]

There are certain composers who interest me for a whole range of reasons and I try to pick up everything of theirs that is released - these include Dutilleux, Roussel, Poulenc, Constant Lambert, Tippett, Louis Andriessen, Steve Reich...; its's probably a throwback to the days when very little of their work was available, either in the dying days of the LP or the early CD years, and the habit has stuck. Ditto a small number of conductors and pianists (Ansermet and Frémaux, for example, and F X Roth with Les siècles; and Kissin in his earlier days - I have lost interest in him recently). Fewer intégrales of singers, although song repertoire is heavily represented in my collection, especially in mélodie recordings. Favourite works - I suspect that multiple versions tend to come about more by accident than design, and am happy to have only a few versions of, say, La mer or Tapiola on the shelves as I know I can access other versions via Naxos Music Library or YouTube and catch broadcasts if they look interesting. I may have more Chopin than any other composer, and probably a healthy cross-section of Ravel recordings. Space is running out, though... (and I have similar completist instincts for books and music too...)

[BBMmk2]

The most I have, I think is Beethoven sets of symphonies. Not many by some standards but I have a few.
Karajan, Abbado, Gardiner, Harnoncourt, Rattle.

[Pulcinella]

Most of my multiples are in low-single-digit territory, mainly symphony sets:
Brahms (4), Elgar (5), Sibelius (4), RVW (4).
(Not counting BBC MM releases.)
Apart from some Stravinsky works other than The rite of spring, three other favourites that are straying into double-digit territory are:
JSB: Goldberg variations
Ravel: Piano concerto in G
Walton: Symphony 1

[Bryn]

. . . Walton: Symphony 1

Including the cut Karajan?

[antongould]

To my amazement I have 6 Bruckner 7s, easily the most duplicated in my collection ....

[Pulcinella]

Including the cut Karajan?

No!

ENP/Daniel
LSO/Davis
Philharmonia/Haitink
Bournemouth SO/Handley
Bournemouth SO/Litton
LPO/Mackerras
LSO/Previn
CBSO/Rattle
LPO/Slatkin
Philharmonia/Walton

Plus two BBC MM releases:
BBCSO/Boult
BBCNOW/Otaka