Unplayed CDs - confess your guilt!

[Beef Oven!]

Not many here, but Ma Vlast and Walton 1, LSO Sir Colin are two CDs that I think I may have played no more than twice each.

[Dave2002]

All this talk of actuarial life expectancy after retirement is making me nervous, I'm retiring next month. But I have plenty of plans for keeping busy

I have the LSO live Trojans, well listened-to (I heard it in the Barbican in 2000), and also the earlier Davis Philips recording with Vickers and the marvellous Josephine Veasey. I saw that live in 1972, with Vickers, but for that run Veasey sang Cassandra and Janet Baker was Dido.

But, back to thread - also in the bargain Philips box alongside Trojans are Benvenuto Cellini and Beatrice and Benedict - the former unplayed, the latter only the heavenly Nuit paisable et serene duet at the end of Act One listened to. It's a lovely opera (I saw the WNO production a few years ago) but for some reason I don't like listening to dialogue on CD...

Nuit paisable, Nuit d'ivresse....two of Berlioz's most glorious creations. Endlessly, sensuously intertwining voices....

Three years on - how's it going Richard? I gave up in 2013 and I've barely got used to it.

Also, I think I have LPs which I never played - for example a set of Haitink in Shostakovich symphonies, and a few more sets and individual discs, though I do have a lot more unplayed CDs. Anyone confess to unplayed 78s?

[Richard Tarleton]

Three years on - how's it going Richard? I gave up in 2013 and I've barely got used to it.

Also, I think I have LPs which I never played - for example a set of Haitink in Shostakovich symphonies, and a few more sets and individual discs, though I do have a lot more unplayed CDs. Anyone confess to unplayed 78s?

Well I'm enjoying the leisure to do important things like much more walking and birdwatching instead of being stuck in front of a computer....and indeed more guitar practice, until arthritis finally puts a stop to it - and much more time for listening - e.g. 2 sets of Shostakovich string quartets (Borodins and St P, as mentioned on Beef's thread), in fact a bit of a string quartet project generally....not too many unplayed discs now...gradually working through complete Liszt piano box on Hyperion, hope Caliban isn't reading this - but I still haven't listened to Benvenuto Cellini all the way through....

Must go, Andras Schiff in a minute