Amazing shortcomings in your collection

[Don]

Not too many gaps, but even though I love Wagner I am without a Tannhaeuser at present (except the old Konwistchny - sp? - on LP, so I guess I have one after all). I also have no Arnold Bax, but I hardly think that's a shortcoming amazing or otherwise, and I have only two Malcolm Arnolds, which is at least two too many.

Oh well.  I have dozens of Bax and around 20 Arnolds and would kill to keep them in my possession.

[not edward]

I love Prokofiev, but I haven't got recordings of Romeo and Juliet (beyond some excerpts) or Cinderella.

I don't have the Shostakovich piano concerti.

[Joe Barron]

I guess the big gaps in my collection pertain to Russian music. I have none of the Tchaikovsky symphonies, concertos, or tone poems, though I do have some of piano and ballet music, and nothing at all by Rachmaninov, even on anthology albums.

[George]

....and nothing at all by Rachmaninov, even on anthology albums.

       

(that was the first time I ever used 5  , but I think that they were called for) 

[Bonehelm]

I don't have any Mozart, except for Little Night Music. However, I've heard most of his works, due to the 24/7 Mozart-exclusive 320kbps online radio here.

[marvinbrown]

       

(that was the first time I ever used 5  , but I think that they were called for) 

  Even more shocking is that he does not have any of the Tchaikovsky symphonies  !  Symphonies 4, 5 and 6 I believe are absolutely essential to any music collection.  There are so many fine recordings on the market, a music listener is spoiled for choice.

  marvin

[71 dB]

Many of you may find it amazing I don't have any symphony CDs from the following well-known composers:

Berlioz
Bruckner
Dvorák
Mahler
Mendelssohn (I have some string symphonies thou)
Rachmaninov
Schubert
Tchaikovsky
Vaughan-Williams

What are the amazing shortcoming of your collection?

Now I do have Bruckner 3, 4, 6 & 8 , Mahler 1, 3, 4, 5 and Dvorák 9.

[Harry]

No shortcomings in my collection.
But there is a lot to be added in the coming years.

[Florestan]

No shortcomings in my collection.

Wagner?

[71 dB]

No shortcomings in my collection.
But there is a lot to be added in the coming years.

Elgar's oratorios? 

[Harry]

Wagner?

That is not a shortcoming, but much needed protection.

[Harry]

Elgar's oratorios? 

Well I will certainly try, but I am weak in the knees concerning works of that magnitude Poju.

[71 dB]

Well I will certainly try, but I am weak in the knees concerning works of that magnitude Poju.

Be a man Harry! 

[(poco) Sforzando]

Well I will certainly try, but I am weak in the knees concerning works of that magnitude Poju.

You're not alone . . . . .

[Grazioso]

Not too many gaps, but even though I love Wagner I am without a Tannhaeuser at present (except the old Konwistchny - sp? - on LP, so I guess I have one after all). I also have no Arnold Bax, but I hardly think that's a shortcoming amazing or otherwise, and I have only two Malcolm Arnolds, which is at least two too many.

A lack of Bax is a shortcoming in my book. If you haven't explored his work, I'd recommend it highly. Arnold's symphonies and film music are also worth exploring.

A big lacuna in my collection: no opera on DVD and a relative paucity on CD, but only because I haven't gotten around to it yet because of my greater interest in symphonic music, not from any lack of interest in opera. Otherwise no "amazing" shortcomings, afaik. I have much of the standard repertoire, all of Bach and Mozart, nearly all of LvB, most of Stravinsky, a big chunk of Haydn's output, all genres, and works ranging from early Baroque (no Medieval or Renaissance, alas) to contemporary, and composers of many nationalities and styles.

[Que]

  Even more shocking is that he does not have any of the Tchaikovsky symphonies  !  Symphonies 4, 5 and 6 I believe are absolutely essential to any music collection.  There are so many fine recordings on the market, a music listener is spoiled for choice.

  marvin

And the Manfred, and the Manfred, don't forget the Manfred.

Sorry for the repetition - just to be sure..
Any Tchaikovsky symphonies collection without it - now that is an amazing shortcoming.

Q

[springrite]

Not sure if there are any major shortcomings in my collection. The only somewhat important composer not in my collection is Gluck, and he is not that major either.

[George]

And the Manfred, and the Manfred, don't forget the Manfred.

Sorry for the repetition - just to be sure..
Any Tchaikovsky symphonies collection without it - now that is an amazing shortcoming.

Q

I finally bought a copy of Manfred (Svetlanov) last year. I think it's time I spinned that one.

[(poco) Sforzando]

A lack of Bax is a shortcoming in my book. If you haven't explored his work, I'd recommend it highly. Arnold's symphonies and film music are also worth exploring.

If you or someone else wants to suggest a couple - and I mean a couple, not several dozen - CDs representing Bax at his best, I'll consider trying them. I have heard some of his work on radio and was not very impressed. As for Arnold, other than the slow final movement of the 9th symphony I have not been very impressed either. We all read different books.

[(poco) Sforzando]

Not sure if there are any major shortcomings in my collection. The only somewhat important composer not in my collection is Gluck, and he is not that major either.

I think if you were to hear Iphigenie en Tauride (the Gardiner recording is ok, and I recently saw the new production at the Met in NYC with Placido Domingo and Susan Graham), you might change your tune. It is a fabulous opera, a clear forerunner to the operatic styles of Mozart and even Berlioz, and more impressive and interesting (in my book) than the more chaste and restrained Orfeo ed Euridice - though that is a fine work as well.