Fillers

[teamsaint]

On another thread our resident cockney Manchester United fan Beef Oven was saying how much he enjoys "filler" works on his CD's !#

This brought me round to something that I have contemplated idly for a while, which is that Classical music collectors frequently acquire recordings of works that they didn't really intend to, or perhaps don't really like. With some of the titanic sized CD and record collections hereabouts, there must be people who have multiple versions of works that they aren't that bothered about. Would be good to see some big numbers.....
My CD collection is a bit Division 3 size wise, but I have notched up several versions of "In the South" accidentally and 3 Pierrot Lunaires, quite effortlessly.( Fine works,obviously but not deliberate purchases.)
Perhaps some "Fillers " turned out to be favourites after all.....

[cloughie]

On another thread our resident cockney Manchester United fan Beef Oven was saying how much he enjoys "filler" works on his CD's !#

This brought me round to something that I have contemplated idly for a while, which is that Classical music collectors frequently acquire recordings of works that they didn't really intend to, or perhaps don't really like. With some of the titanic sized CD and record collections hereabouts, there must be people who have multiple versions of works that they aren't that bothered about. Would be good to see some big numbers.....
My CD collection is a bit Division 3 size wise, but I have notched up several versions of "In the South" accidentally and 3 Pierrot Lunaires, quite effortlessly.( Fine works,obviously but not deliberate purchases.)
Perhaps some "Fillers " turned out to be favourites after all.....

...and then again 80+ Boleros which make me like it even less. I did pick up Webern's Im Sommerwind as a coupling to a Mahler symphony which is a beautiful piece. I do wish though that when overtures and other fillers are added to symphonies or other main works they are placed before instead of after eg don't place 1812 after the Pathetique or Bolero after Daphnis, a couple of Slavonic Dances after a Dvorak Symphony, or although I love them dearly In the South or Cockaigne after Elgar 1 or 2. Straying slightly from the fillers but couplings and sequence are important - I like the hear introduction and Allegro for Strings as an 'overture' to the Serenade for Strings - this was how it was with the Collins and Barbirolli versions I grew up with - similarly L'apres-midi is always my 'overture' to La Mer.

[Petrushka]

I'm afraid it's Bolero for me as well. Impossible to tell how many because, as is the nature of 'fillers', they are somewhat scattered about the shelves!

All those New Year's Concert CD's means more Blue Danubes and Radetsky Marches than anyone can possibly want.

[Beef Oven]

I hate fillers!

Even yesterday I tried to delete some fillers from a download I was making and couldn't do it.

It's even worse with rock albums. A few years ago I decided to replace my vinyl copy of 'Heartbreaker' by Free and couldn't believe the amount of appalling alternative and outtake versions I had to accept on my new CD. Loads of un-checking when it comes to ripping

[Serial_Apologist]

I hate fillers!