Compulsive Disassociative CD Collecting Disease (CDCDCD)

[Gurn Blanston]

At least you will know every note of the Ring!
I have 3 complete Mahler cycles and several individual recordings and I only know the 1st and 6th well...
I should buy stop buying new versions of works that I already own and do not know yet 

Ha, that's funny though. It is one of the first stages of admitting addiction for people to finally acknowledge that in the long term, most general way, there are things that should be done. So this is a promising sign.

Excuse me now while I go thumb through my 18 versions of Haydn's 'Military Symphony'....

[nico1616]

Excuse me now while I go thumb through my 18 versions of Haydn's 'Military Symphony'....

Hmmm, quite comforting to know that there is not a classical work in my collection that I have more than 9 versions of (Don Giovanni)
My 7 Haydn London symphony cycles are just peanuts.

Moreover, Haydn's symphonies never cost me any effort to listen to, they always make me smile 

[Gurn Blanston]

Hmmm, quite comforting to know that there is not a classical work in my collection that I have more than 9 versions of (Don Giovanni)
My 7 Haydn London symphony cycles are just peanuts.

Moreover, Haydn's symphonies never cost me any effort to listen to, they always make me smile 

My kinda guy! 

[nico1616]

My kinda guy! 

Thanks!
I can not let this opportunity go by: please tell me your favorite Military symphony recording.
Another Haydn symphony recording won't hurt 
Or maybe it is already in my collection!

Nico

[Gurn Blanston]

Thanks!
I can not let this opportunity go by: please tell me your favorite Military symphony recording.
Another Haydn symphony recording won't hurt 
Or maybe it is already in my collection!

Nico

I really like Minkowski and Friends. It is the one that I recommended in the Haydn series as having the best percussion. I don't really listen to modern instrument versions, although I have a few...   

[nico1616]

I really like Minkowski and Friends. It is the one that I recommended in the Haydn series as having the best percussion. I don't really listen to modern instrument versions, although I have a few...   

Minkowski I have and love!!!
A few weeks ago I compared my 8 versions of symphony#99. Minkowski is my favorite for that beautiful piece. His slow movement is really heartbreaking.
Szell came second...

[snyprrr]

I need to cut back on purchases but have not yet found a good way to do so. I was out of it for a while there but now I'm back in big time. I have Spotify but that doesn't stop me from buying downloads or discs.

Ugh.

I thought you had given up on all this two years ago???


I guess I've been purchase free for three months now...wow...just yesterday I opened the last XMass cd... and I'm just so satisfied listening to all things old and new.

[Ataraxia]

I thought you had given up on all this two years ago???

Sounds right. 

[Sergeant Rock]

A few weeks ago I compared my 8 versions of symphony#99. Minkowski is my favorite for that beautiful piece. His slow movement is really heartbreaking.
Szell came second...

I love "The Cat" Symphony   I have 9 versions. Minkowski is one of my favorites, too, although, for me, Norrington/Stuttgart just edges him out for top spot due to Stuttgart's ruder brass. I prefer the slower, more galumphing pace of Norrington's Minuet too. But yeah, Minkowski is excellent. I'm usually a Szell man in Haydn but I wasn't as pleased with his 99...the first movement is a bit faster than I prefer. Still, a great performance.

Sarge

[snyprrr]

I love "The Cat" Symphony   I have 9 versions. Minkowski is one of my favorites, too, although, for me, Norrington/Stuttgart just edges him out for top spot due to Stuttgart's ruder brass. I prefer the slower, more galumphing pace of Norrington's Minuet too. But yeah, Minkowski is excellent. I'm usually a Szell man in Haydn but I wasn't as pleased with his 99...the first movement is a bit faster than I prefer. Still, a great performance.

Sarge

See, without 'you' people doing all the heavy lifting, we wouldn't then be able to go on after you and buy the CORRECT recording!! So... thanks!

[Mirror Image]

I'm on medication for CDCDCD and it's been helping. I haven't really bought that much lately, which is pretty surprising.

[nico1616]

I love "The Cat" Symphony   I have 9 versions. Minkowski is one of my favorites, too, although, for me, Norrington/Stuttgart just edges him out for top spot due to Stuttgart's ruder brass. I prefer the slower, more galumphing pace of Norrington's Minuet too. But yeah, Minkowski is excellent. I'm usually a Szell man in Haydn but I wasn't as pleased with his 99...the first movement is a bit faster than I prefer. Still, a great performance.

Sarge

The "Cat" symphony? I have never heard of that nickname for n°99
Norrington is missing in my collection and you just made me curious ...
Maybe a 9th version won't hurt 

[mc ukrneal]

The "Cat" symphony? I have never heard of that nickname for n°99
Norrington is missing in my collection and you just made me curious ...
Maybe a 9th version won't hurt 

This was started by Sarge. Here was one of the original posts on it from the Haydn symphony thread:

99 is one of my favorites. I don't understand though why it hasn't acquired the nickname Die Katze (the Cat). The second subject first movement sounds like a meow to me   80 in D minor is another favorite. Some of those written around the time of the Horn Signal have tremendous music for horns too, which I love. I just can't remember which ones! Damn Papa for composing too many to remember 

Sarge

[Sergeant Rock]

The "Cat" symphony? I have never heard of that nickname for n°99

Neal kindly answered for me. I'll just add this: few if any of the nicknames given to Haydn symphonies were Haydn's idea. Others thought of the labels and they stuck. Why should that tradition end in the 19th century? I hope my nickname for 99 (Die Katze or The Cat) catches on 



So far, it hasn't   

Sarge

[nico1616]

Neal kindly answered for me. I'll just add this: few if any of the nicknames given to Haydn symphonies were Haydn's idea. Others thought of the labels and they stuck. Why should that tradition end in the 19th century? I hope my nickname for 99 (Die Katze or The Cat) catches on 



So far, it hasn't   

Sarge

Great story! After this reply (and the fantastic cover), to me n°99 will be forever 'die Katze' 

Nico

[Sergeant Rock]

Great story! After this reply (and the fantastic cover), to me n°99 will be forever 'die Katze' 

Excellent 

Sarge

[Mirror Image]

The medication has STOPPED WORKING!!! I bought three recordings today:

Bartok: Violin Concertos, Arabella Steinbacher, Pentatone
Milhaud: Violin Concertos, Arabella Steinbacher, Orfeo
Khachaturian: Spartacus, Jurowski, Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra, 2-CDs, Capriccio

[Sergeant Rock]

The medication has STOPPED WORKING!!! I bought three recordings today:

Bartok: Violin Concertos, Arabella Steinbacher, Pentatone
Milhaud: Violin Concertos, Arabella Steinbacher, Ofreo
Khachaturian: Spartacus, Jurowski, Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra, 2-CDs, Capriccio

I haven't heard her Bartok yet, but I love Steinbacher's Milhaud.

Sarge

[Scion7]

Thankfully I have never suffered from this affliction.   


             . . . . .

OKAY!  OKAY!   I prefer to refer to myself as reformed.   

Since last summer, I have only bought two CD's - an Enescu piano quartets and a Bacewicz et al woodwind set.
My budget discipline is in full force, and whenever I feel myself starting to weaken, I simply stare long and hard at the cubic feet of vinyl, tape and CD's in my house and shake it off.

         It also pleases me that as advanced as my compulsion was, alot of you are truly  sick !  You need help.  Serious, expensive, psychiatric care with long-term meds.

[Gurn Blanston]

Thankfully I have never suffered from this affliction.   


             . . . . .

OKAY!  OKAY!   I prefer to refer to myself as reformed.   

Since last summer, I have only bought two CD's - an Enescu piano quartets and a Bacewicz et al woodwind set.
My budget discipline is in full force, and whenever I feel myself starting to weaken, I simply stare long and hard at the cubic feet of vinyl, tape and CD's in my house and shake it off.

         It also pleases me that as advanced as my compulsion was, alot of you are truly  sick !  You need help.  Serious, expensive, psychiatric care with long-term meds.

What, and LP's are a harmless placebo?  Pull the other one.