How much do you spend on CDs and recorded music?

[EdgeleyRob]

How much do I spend on CDs and recorded music? I dread to think !

[Mahlerei]

Don't think I've got 10 of anything, not even the Mahler symphonies. Maybe that's because I have a cull every now and then, the least favoured discs going to charity shops or Amazon.

As for monthly spend, almost nothing as I get plenty for review and that keeps me going. Very occasionally I'll buy something if the fancy takes me; just acquired Copland's recording of his ballet scores with the LSO (remastered on a Sony SACD) as I have fond memories of the original LP.

[Eine Alpensinfonie]

Elgar: Enigma Variations:
Barbirolli (4 versions), Thomson, Sargent, Elder, Elgar (2 versions), Boult, Solti (2 versions), Gardiner 13

Strauss: Alpine Symphony: Saccani, Kord, Dutoit, Delfs, Luisi, De Waart, Nelsons, Haider, Bohm (2 versions), Janowski, Fruhbeck de Burgos, Kosler, Fried, Konwitschny, Kempe (2 versions), Davis, Tabakov, Wit, Bychkov, Litton, Welser-Most, Solti, Asahina, Schuricht, Judd, Blomstedt, Ashkenazy (2 versions), Zinman, Haitink (2 versions), Mehta (2 versions), Masur, Karajan, Jordan, Jarvi, Jansons (2 versions), Thielmann, Del Mar, Strauss, Sinopoli, Schwarz, Previn (2 versions), Barenboim, Ozawa, Mitropoulos, Alber, Maazel. [B]53]/B] Well 54 if you count the extra copy of the Schuricht and the LP of RPO/Kempe. And I've got 3 more on order (Strauss - Munich version; Stein, Mravinsky).

[gurnemanz]

I'm trying to rein myself in of late and only fill gaps. Both Liszt and Britten have been blindspots up till now and in my encroaching old age I've just bought two big boxes - EMI Britten Edition (just arrived) and DG Liszt. The Britten seems to be very good and was dirt cheap but documentation is poor and there are many interesting vocal works totally new to me for which no texts are provided. Much online detective work will be necessary.
I think the only works I have more than 10 versions of are Lieder, which are something of an obsession and, being short, are easily accumulated. eg Schubert:

An die Musik, Erlkönig 19
Gretchen am Spinnrade 18
Nacht und Träume 15
Der Tod und das Mädchen 10 exactly (one in Russian - Feodor Chaliapin)

[VodkaDilc]

Elgar: Enigma Variations:
Barbirolli (4 versions), Thomson, Sargent, Elder, Elgar (2 versions), Boult, Solti 11

You haven't mentioned the recording which is the one I keep coming back to: Mackerras and the LPO (with a wonderful organ contribution in the Finale.)

It's not fashionable to say so, but I also enjoy listening to the famous Bernstein/BBCSO version occasionally.

[Alison]

Yes, I love that Mackerras LPO Enigma and enjoy his Falstaff more than any other, too.

[gurnemanz]

It's not fashionable to say so, but I also enjoy listening to the famous Bernstein/BBCSO version occasionally.

Likewise.

[makropulos]

You haven't mentioned the recording which is the one I keep coming back to: Mackerras and the LPO (with a wonderful organ contribution in the Finale.)

It's not fashionable to say so, but I also enjoy listening to the famous Bernstein/BBCSO version occasionally.

Vodkadisc: that Mackerras EMI recording is superb, and I return to it constantly (I agree about the tremendous organ too). It's been one of my overall favourite Enigma recordings ever since it first appeared.
I feel much the same as you about Bernstein's recording - good to play it from time to time.

My other Enigma recordings include:
Elgar (RAH Orchestra)
Boult/BBCSO
Boult/LPO (CfP)
Boult/LSO (EMI)
Jochum/LSO
Mackerras/RPO
Mackerras/Melbourne SO
Monteux/LSO
Solti/Chicago SO
Solti/Vienna PO
Toscanini/BBCSO

[hafod]

I keep promising myself "that's enough" then hafod posts a bargain and one of my musician friends has a new disc out. It's a lost cause!

I do my best. Not sure whether to post these here or on the Bargain thread. First, the Bohm Ring cycle for £18.50

http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/B003Y3MYYU/?tag=goodmusicguideco-21

and second, Jarvi's Martinu symphony cycle for £4.99

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Martinu-Symphonies-Bamberg-Symphony-Orchestra/dp/B0017HFRFI/ref=wl_it_dp_o?ie=UTF8&coliid=I2CXCOY4D7N7F&colid=2W8NQTHIR3KZ6

[ostuni]

My '10 club' candidates: Beethoven late piano sonatas, Beethoven late quartets, Bruckner 9, Mahler 2,6,8,9,dLvdE.

[Chris Newman]

I do my best. Not sure whether to post these here or on the Bargain thread. First, the Bohm Ring cycle for £18.50

http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/B003Y3MYYU/?tag=goodmusicguideco-21

and second, Jarvi's Martinu symphony cycle for £4.99
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Martinu-Symp...=2W8NQTHIR3KZ6

hafod, Ooh! I hate you (not really) for the Ring. I ordered the Belohlavec Martinu set at the same time. bws Chris

[VodkaDilc]

Yes, I love that Mackerras LPO Enigma and enjoy his Falstaff more than any other, too.

I wonder whether your copy of the Mackerras actually says "Boult" on the CD spine, but Mackerras everywhere else! Very confusing, when the EMI Boult recording is next to it on my shelves!
(Perhaps I just bought a rogue copy of the CD.)

[Curalach]

I do my best. Not sure whether to post these here or on the Bargain thread. First, the Bohm Ring cycle for £18.50

http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/B003Y3MYYU/?tag=goodmusicguideco-21

and second, Jarvi's Martinu symphony cycle for £4.99
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Martinu-Symp...=2W8NQTHIR3KZ6

Hafod, I am enormously in your debt! Fortunately I already have these performances. It can be frustrating to see the current price of recordings I paid full price for back in the 80s!
In a way, that's why so many of the current offers are irresistible.

[Petrushka]

This is a fine time of year to be asking me this question!

My trips to the Proms are combined with an enormous splurge of CD buying from HMV, Harold Moores and especially a trawl of Classical Exchange in Notting Hill Gate and Gramex in Lower Marsh (I was there yesterday morning). So with the Proms nearly at an end I've got 60 CD's to catch up on!

Oh and three versions of Mahler 3 among them!

[Petrushka]

...the Bohm Ring cycle for £18.50

I bought this in 1987 for something like £130.