Amazing shortcomings in your collection

[Que]

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

Sounds good, George! 

Q

[George]

Sounds good, George! 

Q

I'll let you know. 

[rockerreds]

Delius
Finzi

[71 dB]

Delius
Finzi

Get Finzi's Eclogue for piano and strings, Op. 10!

[Grazioso]

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.

Here's a great one to start with:



It includes his "greatest hit", Tintagel. Bax took a while to grow on me, but I found the effort more than worthwhile in the end.

[toledobass]

Chamber music....you name it,  I probably don't have it 

Allan

[(poco) Sforzando]

Here's a great one to start with:



It includes his "greatest hit", Tintagel. Bax took a while to grow on me, but I found the effort more than worthwhile in the end.

Okay, I will order that one. Thank you.

[Haffner]

  hmmm...  I find their playing crisp, focused and well suited to these pieces. Perhaps it is advisable that ChamberNut sample before buying. 

  marvin

The Talich is second only to the Prazac, in my eyes (ears) at least.

[Turner]

- Mozart Serenades & Divertimenti, especially the Vegh recording - but on my wish list.
- Complete Boulez works /DG
- Rautavaara: Complete concertos

Possibly on the long-term list too:

- Rautavaara: complete symphonies
- Raff: complete symphonies
- Spohr: complete symphonies & string quartets
- C.P.E. Bach: Complete piano works, Hännsler CD
- C.P.E. Bach: Complete concertos/Spanyi, should it become very cheap

[ComposerOfAvantGarde]

I don't have CDs of most music, but I'd be surprised if anyone does!

[Obradovic]

Fauré's Piano Trio op.120.It somehow escaped me (damned unemployment...)

[Jo498]

My collection has gaps but I don't think any amazing ones.

[arpeggio]

Interesting.

Among orchestral music, none.

There are some glaring gaps in opera: Verdi, Bellini, Massenet and many others.

I do not have a single art song of Schubert, Brahms, Wolfe and many others.

Piano music of Mozart and Haydn.

String quartets of Mozart and Haydn.

Since I am a band junkie I have very few of the classic marches.  Very few of Sousa.  None of Filmore, Goldman or King.

Which is sad since I have over 2600 CD's and 700 LP's in my library.  I am 69 and I still have the first LP I purchased when I was 14.

I am uncomfortable discussing the shortcomings in my music library because it shows the shortcomings of my ears.

[Spineur]

The gaps in my collection are both amazing and deliberate.  Symphonies, especially classical ones, with the exposition of the two themes, their development and a final as a recap of the themes are so predictable that I loose interest at the first listen even before the piece finishes.
So composers with dominant symphonic output are hardly there, with some notable exceptions.  Mahler symphonies have very interesting instrumental and sound palettes.  This makes up for his taste for drawn out side tracks.

[PerfectWagnerite]

The gaps in my collection are both amazing and deliberate.  Symphonies, especially classical ones, with the exposition of the two themes, their development and a final as a recap of the themes are so predictable that I loose interest at the first listen even before the piece finishes.
So composers with dominant symphonic output are hardly there, with some notable exceptions.  Mahler symphonies have very interesting instrumental and sound palettes.  This makes up for his taste for drawn out side tracks.

Interesting...

You find works like Mozart's Sym#39 or Haydn's Sym#96 "predictable"?

[amw]

I don't have any music by Wagner (except some piano works and a couple of orchestral favourites from compilations) and I probably should, even though I still don't like him much. At very least one Ring cycle, one Meistersinger and one Parsifal.

I also don't have any Verdi except the string quartet and probably should look into getting at least an Otello and a Falstaff and probably an Aïda even though I also don't like him much yet.

I... also don't have Mozart's Da Ponte operas which I really should have. Or Beethoven's Fidelio. Or any of the operas by Berlioz.

In fact I basically have almost no opera in my collection at all. So that's probably the main "shortcoming". I also don't have much solo vocal music or much choral music. These three categories of works may have something in common.

[Turner]

I also don't have any Verdi except the string quartet and probably should look into getting at least an Otello and a Falstaff and probably an Aïda even though I also don't like him much yet.

This is certainly OK, but - you´ve probably heard it before - the Requiem is perhaps the best single work to own for those less interested in opera, I think.

[Spineur]

Interesting...

You find works like Mozart's Sym#39 or Haydn's Sym#96 "predictable"?

I have an excellent memory (even if I am over 50).  So the very well known symphonies are "sort of stored there" and I have no need for recordings.  This is true of Beethoven symphonies as well.

[Jo498]

I have gaps in the opera department (very little Donizetti, Bellini and Rossini, not Massenet etc. but most of the better known Verdi operas) but I would not call any of them "glaring" or "amazing"...  I would not call the gaps mentioned by Turner in #128 amazing either (unless they are amazing taking to account his other musical preferences). I have no Rautavaara but a few symphonies each by Spohr and Raff and maybe a half dozen discs each of CPE Bach keyboard works and concerti so I consider this stuff reasonably well represented in my shelves despite not at all complete.

[Turner]

I would not call the gaps mentioned by Turner in #128 amazing either (unless they are amazing taking to account his other musical preferences). I have no Rautavaara but a few symphonies each by Spohr and Raff and maybe a half dozen discs each of CPE Bach keyboard works and concerti so I consider this stuff reasonably well represented in my shelves despite not at all complete.

You´re right, not really essential repertoire, though Raff for example has some die-hard fans and the items keep being mentioned on various classical website forums. More of a want-list, I guess.