CD Filing

[Roehre]

Sorry to hear about that (and about The Great Shostakovich Rip-Off!) ... I think BH and the Sea Symphony is a match made in heaven... but hey...

I'm afraid even Haitink cannot save the Sea symphony for me.

[Richard Tarleton]

Yes, they certainly have and each month the problem gets worse! As I've said before, I've got every single one since Issue no 1 in August 1992 and there are quite a few I don't want or need. The question is: which ones? Some are obvious to me but many are borderline, do I or don't I? Will I ever listen to them or not?

I really need to sit down and just get it done because the extra space available is desperately needed.

Why do I imagine a fictional Pet as a murder victim in a particularly imaginative episode of Midsomer Murders - buried under an avalanche of CDs, probably in a locked room...a real challenge for the attractive pathologist.....

[richardfinegold]

Yes, they certainly have and each month the problem gets worse! As I've said before, I've got every single one since Issue no 1 in August 1992 and there are quite a few I don't want or need. The question is: which ones? Some are obvious to me but many are borderline, do I or don't I? Will I ever listen to them or not?

I really need to sit down and just get it done because the extra space available is desperately needed.

Take the plunge, Pet, and start burning discs to a hard drive and then discard them (by any means necessary). I have primarily done this with discs I know that I will infrequently play yet cannot bear to part with as part of my no doubt OCD.
It was difficult at first, but it is much easier on the psyche knowing that this music is still retrievable, even if the polycarbonate disc is being used as a frisbee
somewhere else on the planet. It has created space in my storeage area and it actually has gotten me to listen to many of these discs that probably would have just gone on gathering dust. By changing the search criteria on itunes based on whatever mood I happen to be in, many of these discs pop into the screen and I tend to pick them to play. I've been rediscovering many forgotten Composers and pieces.

[richardfinegold]

Why do I imagine a fictional Pet as a murder victim in a particularly imaginative episode of Midsomer Murders - buried under an avalanche of CDs, probably in a locked room...a real challenge for the attractive pathologist.....

He is a great forumite, Richard, and someone really should do a rescue mission...

[Dave2002]

I'm afraid even Haitink cannot save the Sea symphony for me.

Interesting comment. I find that there's a superb opening, followed by extended dreariness until the end. i didn't know I was in the company of others who have reservations about this one.

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

Interesting comment. I find that there's a superb opening, followed by extended dreariness until the end. i didn't know I was in the company of others who have reservations about this one.

Oh, there's plenty of us! I think you've summed it up rather well - although there are moments peppered throughout the work that are wonderful, the whole thing is a chore that I only submit myself to in the knowledge that RVW was a great composer and the hope that there'll be a performance that demonstrates that it's worth the effort. A hope I've held for forty years now - despite the experience of perpetual disappointment. A Doldrums Symphony, perhaps.

[amateur51]

Caliban's solution is perfect and wish I could achieve something similar. I have bookshelves on my back wall, LPs to the side of them, 42 inch Samsung Smart TV opposite the books with CDs to the side of the books and TV, boxed sets in an alcove and also the side of the window and the remainder of the CDs in every other available space. I haven't yet invaded another room because lots of books take up the space there.

Really, a cull is needed and once I get round to it, the BBC MM CDs are in the firing line.

I think we need photographic evidence of your collection, Pet.

Set to it with a will, there's a good chap. Never has this Board been so lively as when Caliban posted his photo

[Ferretfancy]

My tottering piles are due to be put pro tem into bookcases from which they will eventually wind-up in one of Ian's rotating free-standing Wizard jobs. Cost a fair packet they do but once Gideon has let me get at my pension fund it's my treat to myself

http://www.iansbespokefurniture.co.uk/products/wizard.html

They arrive from Harrogate fully erected (not a phrase you hear round here often these days! ) so there's little chance of it sitting in a box for months

Ams,

Have you ever visited the Ian Edwards workshop? We go up to the Lakes fairly often, and on one occasion travelled up by way of Harrogate taking the measurements of a couple of alcoves we wanted to fill. It's not a huge place, but very friendly in welcoming customers, and they built some units for us that fit the spaces perfectly.

There simply isn't room for any more CDs ( I have over 6000) so I've started pruning, but it's so hard to part with things, even where I have several versions of the same work competing for attention, and there are masses of LPs as well, I still enjoy vinyl.

[richardfinegold]

Oh, there's plenty of us! I think you've summed it up rather well - although there are moments peppered throughout the work that are wonderful, the whole thing is a chore that I only submit myself to in the knowledge that RVW was a great composer and the hope that there'll be a performance that demonstrates that it's worth the effort. A hope I've held for forty years now - despite the experience of perpetual disappointment. A Doldrums Symphony, perhaps.

The Sea Symphony was my first exposure to RVW. I disliked it so much--and still do-- that I didn't explore the composer for about 20 years.
Perhaps some pieces should come with an attached warning, as packages of cigarettes do. "This Work may
Unfavorably prejudice the listener against an otherwise worthwhile composer".

[Roehre]

The Sea Symphony was my first exposure to RVW. I disliked it so much--and still do-- that I didn't explore the composer for about 20 years.
Perhaps some pieces should come with an attached warning, as packages of cigarettes do. "This Work may
Unfavorably prejudice the listener against an otherwise worthwhile composer".

This is obviously a remark with a more general importance: how many people are put off from "classical" music in general, or from one composer or group of composers more specifically, because of a Sea-symphony-experience like RFG's?
It was just by chance that my Sea-symphony was coupled (as 2LP-set) with The Wasps (the suite, not only the overture).
Otherwise RVW's music might have got the same delay in appreciation in my musical development as in RichardFG's.

[cloughie]

The Sea Symphony was my first exposure to RVW. I disliked it so much--and still do-- that I didn't explore the composer for about 20 years.
Perhaps some pieces should come with an attached warning, as packages of cigarettes do. "This Work may
Unfavorably prejudice the listener against an otherwise worthwhile composer".

To which other works would add the warning?

Ravel's Bolero (but not La Valse), Dukas' Sorceror's Apprentice, Beethoven 9(movt 4), Elgar's Payne should have a 'This is a fake' sticker and Dvorak's Slavonic Dances 'Overplayed on Radio 3' as should Prokofiev's Classical.

Back to filing - Has anyone else other than me resorted to space saving by doubling up 2 or 3 to a case?

[Eine Alpensinfonie]

Back to filing - Has anyone else other than me resorted to space saving by doubling up 2 or 3 to a case?

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

Back to filing - Has anyone else other than me resorted to space saving by doubling up 2 or 3 to a case?

Not quite - but I do buy 6CD cases (which actually hold eight discs quite safely) and redistribute from single cases. My CD shelves are also quite deep - the downloaded discs (with my handwritten spine labels) go behind the "proper" CDs matching composer with composer.

[Dave2002]

Back to filing - Has anyone else other than me resorted to space saving by doubling up 2 or 3 to a case?

Yes, but usually only as a temporary measure. Usually when one of the original cases or sleeves goes AWOL. You can get more than 2 in if you try - sometimes!

[Roehre]

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Back to filing - Has anyone else other than me resorted to space saving by doubling up 2 or 3 to a case?

Yes, and with my database it only needs adding the title of the spine of the "new" location to keep the CDs fully retrievable.