Most multiple recordings you have?

[71 dB]

What is the piano version like?

It is an "authoritative" transcription made by Elgar himself and worth hearing.

I do suggest you try the Bernstein recording mentioned upthread. You may like it or you may hate it: but it certainly different.

Okay. 

[71 dB]

Oh, just memembered I have the Opus Arte DVD with BBC Symphony Orchestra/Sir Andrew Davies. So that my 10th Enigma Variations. 
That I have to say is a very good performance.

I don't know how you people remember all the recordings you have - your 40 Beethoven cycles adn stuff. I'm confused after 3-4 performances!

[Sergeant Rock]

Mahler 5, sixteen.

BERNSTEIN VPO
SINOPOLI PHILH
LEVINE PHILADELPHIA
MAAZEL VPO
SCHERCHEN O NAT ORTF
BARENBOIM CHICAGO
BARSHAI JUNGE DEUT PHIL
KARAJAN BERLIN PHIL
CHAILLY CONCERTGEBOUW
BERTINI KÖLNER RSO
NEUMANN GEWANDHAUS LEIPZIG
BARBIROLLI NEW PHILHARMONIA
HAITINK BERLIN PHIL
HAITINK CONCERTGEBOUW
KONDRASHIN MOSCOW RADIO
KUBELIK SOBR

I've added 20 more since compiling that list of 16 almost 10 years ago, including desert island worthy performances from Boulez, Dohnányi, Solti, Stenz. But I have more M1s now: 38, with Honeck Pittsburgh leading the pack.

Sarge

[Jo498]

I have around 20 of some/most of the Beethoven symphonies and piano sonatas. Probably also Chopin's second sonata (of which I bought only one or two on purpose as single discs, they are so abundant in pianist boxes). And Brahms' first symphony.
Around 10 of a few other pieces, e.g. the Brahms symphonies, Bruckner 7th, Mahler's 9th, Schubert's symphonies 8+9, his string quintet (since the comparative listening two years ago? I culled one (Naxos) and bought two more (Melos/Rostro and Archibudelli) but I plan to get rid of some more), some of Beethoven's quartets and concertos, Missa solemnis, Diabelli and Goldberg variations and probably a few pieces by Haydn and Mozart.
But I think the bulk of my collection is not due to a few pieces in 10, 20 or more recordings but due to a lot of pieces in ~3-7 versions. Including pieces I am not even very fond of like Grieg's piano concerto or Tchaikovsky's 4th symphony because they are coupled with something I wanted or in some box I wanted for other stuff.

[PerfectWagnerite]

I've added 20 more since compiling that list of 16 almost 10 years ago, including desert island worthy performances from Boulez, Dohnányi, Solti, Stenz. But I have more M1s now: 38, with Honeck Pittsburgh leading the pack.

Sarge

Mahler 3rd I lost count also...probably 30+, it gets to a point sometimes I see a recording and I am not sure whether I have it.
Also Schumann 4th, likely 20 or 30 also.

[Todd]

92+ for every LvB piano sonata now.  Need more.

[GioCar]

Der Ring des Nibelungen.
I have 17 different recordings of the complete cycle.

[amw]

Kreisleriana is the clear frontrunner with 17, but that's a piece where I have expressly sought out alternate versions. There are also nine Op. 132s and nine of Brahms's Second, which just... accumulated.... somehow.

[king ubu]

45 of Mendelssohn's violin concerto
44 of Brahms' violin concerto
42 of Schumann's piano concerto
41 of Beethoven 5
40 of Beethoven's violin concerto
40 of Beethoven's piano concerto no. 5

[71 dB]

45 of Mendelssohn's violin concerto
44 of Brahms' violin concerto
42 of Schumann's piano concerto
41 of Beethoven 5
40 of Beethoven's violin concerto
40 of Beethoven's piano concerto no. 5

Just to demonstrate how different I am compared to typical classical music listeners I say to you I have only one recording of all these works except Beethoven's Violin Concerto - I don't have any performance of it. Instead I have 5 performances of Bruhns' Cantata "De profundis clamavi". 

92+ for every LvB piano sonata now.  Need more.

My "collection" of LvB Piano Sonatas:

2 of 11 and 29
1 of 8, 9, 10, 14, 17, 21, 23, 26, 27, 28, 30, 31 and 32

However, I have 4 performances of Elgar's Concert Allegro Op. 41.

[Wendell_E]

I've got eighteen Lulus. I am a bit obsessed with the piece. I have resisted (so far), the DVD of the Met's William Kentridge production, which I really didn't like much.

[(poco) Sforzando]

45 of Mendelssohn's violin concerto
44 of Brahms' violin concerto
42 of Schumann's piano concerto
41 of Beethoven 5
40 of Beethoven's violin concerto
40 of Beethoven's piano concerto no. 5

You need to have 43 of something.

[king ubu]

You need to have 43 of something.

Well, of the Brahms and Mendelssohn 

[amw]

Just get an extra 3 Beethoven Violin Concertos, that should sort you

[king ubu]

Just get an extra 3 Beethoven Violin Concertos, that should sort you

That might eventually happen, if I keep buying more of those large boxes. I guess with these concertos (and even more so with the Beethoven symphonies), I have around 10-15 recordings I really want, but quite a few of the others turn out highly welcome, even though they were bought as part of large boxes and not really looked for in particular. Either way, I have multiple versions of many things because I do enjoy comparing. One of the starting points of my classical collection a few years ago was EMI's "Icon" series, and that alone accounted for multiple versions of many a violin or piano concert or sonata. We had the discussion elsewhere recently that buying boxes these days is often economically more sensible than buying two or three single discs. On top of that it also fits my never-ending curiosity - and I often end up making discoveries and opening new ways by making all kinds of unexpected discoveries in such box sets.

But there is, I guess, a touch of madness to all of this (I prefer to call it passion though, and necessity, also in order to stay sane in other respects) 

[(poco) Sforzando]

Just get an extra 3 Beethoven Violin Concertos, that should sort you

Or three more Emperors, same difference.

[Gurn Blanston]

I don't do multiples much either, but a have a few pieces that just grew like Topsy. I have 105 Beethoven 9th's. That is the only work which I consciously collected a bunch of. Because of that, this morning I have the chance to listen to MacKerras and the OAE, live from Edinburgh...

[Jo498]

Just to demonstrate how different I am compared to typical classical music listeners I say to you I have only one recording of all these works except Beethoven's Violin Concerto - I don't have any performance of it. Instead I have 5 performances of Bruhns' Cantata "De profundis clamavi". 

My "collection" of LvB Piano Sonatas:

2 of 11 and 29
1 of 8, 9, 10, 14, 17, 21, 23, 26, 27, 28, 30, 31 and 32

However, I have 4 performances of Elgar's Concert Allegro Op. 41.

You can still redeem yourself by getting all the Beethoven sonatas in at least one recording...

As I said, my collection is rather diverse with respect to multiple recordings of the same piece. I think I have two recordings of the Mendelssohn violin concerto (Heifetz stereo and Stern), maybe another one or two in boxes I forgot about (oddly, I have 3 recordings of his lesser known piano concertos). Probably 5 of the Brahms, 8 of the Beethoven and ca. 15 of Beethoven's 5th piano concerto (3 of which are in the Rubinstein Big Box and I have never listened to them...)

[71 dB]

You can still redeem yourself by getting all the Beethoven sonatas in at least one recording...

I have Annie Fischer cycle as mp3s. Those are what I listen to...

[kishnevi]

Oh, just memembered I have the Opus Arte DVD with BBC Symphony Orchestra/Sir Andrew Davies. So that my 10th Enigma Variations. 
That I have to say is a very good performance.

I don't know how you people remember all the recordings you have - your 40 Beethoven cycles adn stuff. I'm confused after 3-4 performances!

I mostly remember a general impression, not particular data points.  Don't ask me who does repeats, etc. I would even have to sit down and plumb my memory to give a list of which conductors are in those 40 cycles.  I can only tell you my favorites are Chailly for probing the emotional depths, Karajan 80s for the traditional big band sound, and Gardiner as representative of the HIP approach.