In Reply to: Which classical music piece do you have the most copies of? posted by John C. - Aussie on April 1, 2010 at 15:54:55:
PHOTO: For some reason I took a photo of a Mahler 8th LP (Tennstedt) still in it's wrapper 20 years after purchase. I have about 400 LP's I still haven't heard!
John C.-Aussie,
I have about 3,000 LP's and 600 CD's. I usually buy for diversity and performances of music not often heard in recital or on radio. I like a lot of lesser-known keyboard composers- for example at least 30 discs of Froberger and many of Sweelinck and Satie. I've never counted but I think I have about 8-10 versions of Mahler's 5th (Solti/Chicago is a favourite)- and quite a few of 1,2 (Walter definitely) and 4 (Bernstein) also, 4 complete (or nearly complete) sets of Bach organ plus 100+ singles- plus a 155-CD set of Bach's complete works, and 400 other organ recordings, 4 complete sets of Beethoven String Quartets (Quartetto Italiano and Talich are favourites)) plus at extra sets of the Late Qu. and least 50 singles. I'm a big fan of Beethoven's Piano Sonatas and have four complete sets (Brendel and Gulda are favourites) plus another 50 or so singles. I have quite a few recordings of Mozart Piano Conc.s- 50-60 (like the Perahia and Uchida sets). Many recordings of Scarlatti Sonatas- perhaps 60-80 discs. Except for Mahler, I don't have a strong concentration on Symphonies- the emphasis is on solo keyboard and chamber music.
My taste has changed over the last 30 years- as a tot I was only interested in music up to 1750 but now includes a great affection for something a bit newer- Prokofiev, Shostakovich, Adams, Debussy, Webern, Hindemith, Schoenberg, and so on. But, since the LP era is mostly past- I did most of my LP buying from 1982 to about 1988 I have far fewer of the more recent composers' works. I'm still a reluctant CD buyer,..
In the mid-80's, I once spent $900 on LP's in two hours at a Tower Records, N.Y. sale.
Cheers,
Bambi B
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