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...any work in any format?  Let's discover, for instance, this forum's RING freak!  Which recording(s) of your favourite work (any genre) did you regret buying, and why?  Would you exchange or give it/them away?  |
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Il duolo della terra nel chiostro ancor ci segue, solo del cor la guerra in ciel si calmera! E la voce di Carlo! E Carlo Quinto! Mio padre! O ciel!
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« Reply #1 on: 12:37:47, 25-05-2007 » |
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At last count, 15 recordings of Tristan und Isolde The only one I now regret buying is the Runnicles/Brewer/Treleaven recording. I've persevered with it but apart from Brewer, it really doesn't do much for me. As for the Ring I've only three, which I suspect will be easily trumped by others here |
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perfect wagnerite
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« Reply #2 on: 12:47:53, 25-05-2007 » |
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Depends whether you count off-air recordings, but only three Rings (Goodall, Sawallisch, Bohm), or four if tapes of the ROH-Haitink Ring count. But 6 Parsifals (Knappertsbusch 1951 and 1962, Goodall, Karajan, Boulez and Levine/Bayreuth) plus off-air copies of Rattle at the ROH; and Goodall conducting Act III at the 1987 Proms. But I'm sure there will be plenty of people here who can trump these ... |
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At every one of these [classical] concerts in England you will find rows of weary people who are there, not because they really like classical music, but because they think they ought to like it. (Shaw, Don Juan in Hell)
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« Reply #3 on: 15:09:34, 25-05-2007 » |
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I own
'Hollander' - Reiner, Fricsay, Keilberth, Dorati (on vinyl), Solti, Karajan.
'Tannhauser' - Sawallisch, Solti, Sinopoli.
'Lohengrin' - Leinsdorf (Met), Keilberth, Kempe, Karajan, Solti.
'Tristan' - Reiner, Leinsdorf, Karajan (51) Furtwangler, Solti, Bohm, Stein, Karajan (72), Bernstein, Kleiber,
Pappano.
'Ring' - Furtwangler (Milan), Keilberth, Solti, Bohm, Karajan, Goodall (on tape),Janowski.
'Meistersinger' - Toscanini, Knappertsbusch, Karajan (51), Kubelik, Karajan (71), Jochum, Sawallisch, Solti (97).
'Parsifal' - Knappertsbusch (51), Knappertsbusch (62), Solti (on tape), Boulez, Karajan, Goodall.
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...so flatterten lachend die Locken....
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« Reply #4 on: 19:04:32, 25-05-2007 » |
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Three of Poulenc's Gloria and about five of Rachmaninov Piano Concerto No. 3, but I can see that this number of multiple copies is already at the bottom of the list!
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Il Grande Inquisitor
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« Reply #5 on: 19:21:08, 25-05-2007 » |
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Admission time! Don Carlos - currently 11 recordings, 8 of the Italian version, 3 of the French: Votto, Haitink, Giulini (live ROH & studio EMI), Santini (EMI & DG), Karajan (live Salzburg & studio EMI), Pappano, Abbado, Matheson Scheherazade - Ashkenazy, Bakels, Batiz, Beecham, Celibidache , Dorati, Dutoit, Gergiev, Immerseel, Karajan, Kondrashin, Mackerras, Monteux, Reiner, Silvestri, Stokowski, Tjeknavorian Regrets - none, but am disappointed by the ridiculous Turkish bath-house acoustic Philips added to Gergiev's performance, although it's not as bad on the SACD issue. |
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Our chief weapon is surprise...surprise and fear...fear and surprise.... Our two weapons are fear and surprise...and ruthless efficiency
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« Reply #6 on: 19:58:06, 25-05-2007 » |
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RINGS = 3 complete audio, 1 complete dvd, many assorted individual operas MAZEPPA = 4 complete audio EVGENY ONEGIN = about 9, although 2 of them would need a Court Order to reclaim and it's not worth it LADY MAC = 3 audio, 1 dvd + 1 dvd of "Katerina Izmailova" BASTIEN & BASTIENNE - 4 complete audio (surely some kind of perverse record, and I still don't like the piece) DON GIOVANNI = 6 on cd FLYING DUTCHMAN = 1 only, Karl Bohm/DG, bought on vinyl when was 19, replaced later on cd... why try to duplicate perfection? |
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"I was, for several months, mutely in love with a coloratura soprano, who seemed to me to have wafted straight from Paradise to the stage of the Odessa Opera-House"
- Leon Trotsky, "My Life"
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Bryn
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« Reply #7 on: 20:01:25, 25-05-2007 » |
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Cage - "Sonatas and Interludes", 10˝+.
Satie - "Vexations", Over 900 (mainly from a live performance by 22 pianists [recorded onto on cassette tapes]).
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« Reply #8 on: 20:33:27, 25-05-2007 » |
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I'm not at home now so can't count, but I have a silly number of Bartók Concertos for Orchestra. I do like Bartók - very much - and the C for Orch is one of my favourite pieces, but in buying various other works I seem to have ended up with it as a coupling far too often.
Which composers do people have the most comprehensive collections of (in the sense of having almost everything available by a given composer)? In my case it's Ligeti, Tippett, Maxwell Davies, Carter, Ferneyhough, Stravinsky (well, I don't have the Complete Works, but I've picked up a lot of them along the way), and Webern I guess (plus a few more recent cpsrs with small or smallish representations on CD).
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The city is a process which always veers away from the form envisaged and desired, ... whose revenge upon its architects and planners undoes every dream of mastery. It is [also] one of the sites where Dasein is assigned the impossible task of putting right what can never be put right. - Rob Lapsley
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richard barrett
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« Reply #9 on: 20:41:51, 25-05-2007 » |
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Which composers do people have the most comprehensive collections of (in the sense of having almost everything available by a given composer)? That's a tough one.  |
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Bryn
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« Reply #10 on: 20:44:59, 25-05-2007 » |
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t_i_n, Stravinsky, Ligeti, Webern, Mozart, JS Bach, Varese, Ruggles, (probably a few songs short of Ives), what's available of Reich and Adams, and quite a lot of Beethoven, but I won't be bothering with wither of the complete editions being issued this year.
Oh, and the official Zappa canon, plus a few extras.
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« Reply #11 on: 20:46:11, 25-05-2007 » |
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That's a tough one. It doesn't really imply a value judgment in my case (or even an 'I really like this composer' judgment). You just get to a certain point where you have most things by a composer and then you think you might as well fill in the gaps. I did buy up a lot of old Collins Classics PMD deletions when I got the chance a couple of years ago, since I already had about half his recordings on that label. Have you got the complete Stockhausen catalogue, Richard? |
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The city is a process which always veers away from the form envisaged and desired, ... whose revenge upon its architects and planners undoes every dream of mastery. It is [also] one of the sites where Dasein is assigned the impossible task of putting right what can never be put right. - Rob Lapsley
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« Reply #12 on: 20:52:02, 25-05-2007 » |
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...any work in any format? I'm just soooo organised these days with a database that says I have 11 of Beethoven's 5th Symphony  Bohm, Karajan, Dorati, Masur, Davis, Szell, Vanska, Konwitschny, Kegel, Kempe, Kleiber (only 2 on CD) Oh, and Beethoven's 9th I have 9 off. conductor/soprano: Guilini/Armstrong, Bernstein/Arroyo, Munch/Price, Solti/Lorengar, Ansermet/Sutherland, Karajan/Perry, Schmidt-Isserstedt/Sutherland, Szell/Addison, Kegel/Hargan (only 1 on CD) Some of these are just due to the charity-vinylophile in me, don't ask me when I last listened to some of them  |
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richard barrett
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« Reply #13 on: 21:01:42, 25-05-2007 » |
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Have you got the complete Stockhausen catalogue, Richard? You may find this amusing, but I did have everything that was available on LP, back in the days. The number of Stockhausen CDs I have is, however, a measly (quick look at the shelf) 41. |
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« Reply #14 on: 21:04:57, 25-05-2007 » |
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Wonder if he has that many Barrett CDs. Congratulations on your millennium, btw!  |
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The city is a process which always veers away from the form envisaged and desired, ... whose revenge upon its architects and planners undoes every dream of mastery. It is [also] one of the sites where Dasein is assigned the impossible task of putting right what can never be put right. - Rob Lapsley
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