Inessential classics - who owns lots of them

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  • Barbirollians
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    • Nov 2010
    • 11669

    #16
    Originally posted by Roehre View Post


    Not inessential. But I hardly know any work worth having more than 2 performances on one's shelf
    Pastoralguy would certainly disagree with you where the Beethoven Violin Concerto is concerned and as for an Alpine Symphony ...

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    • Roehre

      #17
      Originally posted by Barbirollians View Post
      Pastoralguy would certainly disagree with you where the Beethoven Violin Concerto is concerned and as for an Alpine Symphony ...
      to mention but two

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      • Parry1912
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        • Nov 2010
        • 963

        #18
        I would also disagree with you and find it hard to believe that you are entirely serious.
        Del boy: “Get in, get out, don’t look back. That’s my motto!”

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        • teamsaint
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          • Nov 2010
          • 25195

          #19
          Originally posted by Roehre View Post


          Not inessential. But I hardly know any work worth having more than 2 performances on one's shelf
          As I struggle to get 1 version of lots of things, I'm with you ,Roehre.

          In any case, time doesn't seem to allow for listening to all those versions ! Not fo me, anyway.....too much to get through.
          I will not be pushed, filed, stamped, indexed, briefed, debriefed or numbered. My life is my own.

          I am not a number, I am a free man.

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          • Tony Halstead
            Full Member
            • Nov 2010
            • 1717

            #20
            Oh dear, this is embarrassing, but
            I don't know what I would do without my ELEVEN different CD recordings of Delius' 'Brigg Fair'... ( plus a few more on LP currently stored in the garage).
            However, I still maintain that the finest one I ever heard - surpassing even Beecham, Barbirolli, Handley, Mackerras, et al, was that by David Atherton with the BBCNOW in the proms a few years ago.

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            • Suffolkcoastal
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              • Nov 2010
              • 3290

              #21
              I'm entirely with Roehre, I dislike duplicating works as I'd rather continue to explore repertoire that is unfamiliar to me. Having said that across the media of LP/Cassette/CD/Dowload, I do have some works in more than one recording. I have 5 recordings of Harris's 3rd Symphony, hardly an inessential classic though and oddly 4 recordings (2 of them off-air) of Harris's 9th Symphony. Plus a number of works with 3 recordings, some of which you would class as 'inessential'.

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              • Roehre

                #22
                Originally posted by Suffolkcoastal View Post
                .... I have 5 recordings of Harris's 3rd Symphony, hardly an inessential classic though .....
                I've got three of them, two deliberately, as one was coupled with Copland's 3rd (CBS-LP), another with Schuman's 3rd (DGG-CD, and both conducted by Bernstein). A third recording fell into my mailbox as part of a BBCMM CD. Most of my duplicates are to be found on these CDs, btw.

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                • Suffolkcoastal
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                  • Nov 2010
                  • 3290

                  #23
                  I've just realised I've got 6 Harris 3rds (I forgot about the Toscanini). Also 4 Ascending Larks and 4 Mendelssohn E minor Violin Concertos, 4 William Tell Overtures, 4 Common Man Fanfares, plus 4 Appalachian Springs but two are of the Suite, one the Ballet in its original chamber scoring and one of the Ballet complete for orchestra so that probably doesn't count, and 4 Tchaikovsky Romeo & Juliet's though one of them is of the original version of the score.
                  Last edited by Suffolkcoastal; 13-12-12, 22:15.

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                  • Ferretfancy
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                    • Nov 2010
                    • 3487

                    #24
                    I'm very embarrassed to admit this, but I have 42 recordings of La Mer --it's the couplings, you see!

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                    • Eine Alpensinfonie
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                      • Nov 2010
                      • 20570

                      #25
                      Originally posted by Barbirollians View Post
                      Pastoralguy would certainly disagree with you where the Beethoven Violin Concerto is concerned and as for an Alpine Symphony ...
                      I do have quite a few Enigma Variations, Mozart 40s, and seemingly bucket loads of Don Juans.

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                      • visualnickmos
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                        • Nov 2010
                        • 3609

                        #26
                        Originally posted by Ferretfancy View Post
                        I'm very embarrassed to admit this, but I have 42 recordings of La Mer --it's the couplings, you see!
                        Yes, of course; we all believe you!

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                        • Mary Chambers
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                          • Nov 2010
                          • 1963

                          #27
                          I still find the idea that music is an object that one can own quite.....odd? Funny?

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                          • ferneyhoughgeliebte
                            Gone fishin'
                            • Sep 2011
                            • 30163

                            #28
                            Originally posted by Mary Chambers View Post
                            I still find the idea that music is an object that one can own quite.....odd? Funny?
                            Capitalist?

                            Strictly speaking, the Thread Title apart, we've mostly been talking about recordings of said elusive Art.
                            [FONT=Comic Sans MS][I][B]Numquam Satis![/B][/I][/FONT]

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                            • Mary Chambers
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                              • Nov 2010
                              • 1963

                              #29
                              Originally posted by ferneyhoughgeliebte View Post
                              Capitalist?

                              Strictly speaking, the Thread Title apart, we've mostly been talking about recordings of said elusive Art.
                              Yes, I know - and that's what music means to many.

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                              • Barbirollians
                                Full Member
                                • Nov 2010
                                • 11669

                                #30
                                Returning to this thread and Mary's last response as far as inessential classics are concerned one of the main reasons I find I duplicate recordings of them in a way I might not of other pieces ( for example in Richard Strauss's symphonic poems I only have Kempe's box , Haitink's Alpine and the du Pre/Boult Don Quixote released as a tribute to her ) is because one simply never hears them in the concert hall or even on the radio .

                                Goldmark's Rustic wedding Symphony being a case in point . It is a truly lovely work full of good tunes that kept its place in the repertoire until the 1950s bt all accounts but has disappeared without trace. Extraordinarily it appears that it was never performed at the Proms .

                                Just listening to the splendid Previn account now .

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