Amazing shortcomings in your collection

[Haffner]

My collection simply isn't big enough. That's why I drool so much over Sarge's collection (the man has a Wagner collection to die for).

[beclemund]

It was indeed.

"The same is probably true of 71 dB"

But, so was that. He has never mentioned visiting libraries or listening to large amounts of internet radio. You've made the same mistake.

Hehe. I am pretty sure it is not a leap at all to suggest all posters on this board have listened to more than they have purchased... Except maybe Harry as he probably has more stacks of CDs (and 800 CD shipments) he hasn't listen to than I have in total. 

[hornteacher]

I tend to have all or nothing (depending on the composer):

TONS of Bach, Hadyn, Mozart, Beethoven, Schubert, Schumann, Mendelssohn, Brahms, Dvorak, Tchaikovsky, Shostakovich, Stravinsky, Holst, Elgar, Vaughan-Williams, Prokofiev, Copland

ZERO of Verdi, Puccini, Wagner, Mahler, Bruckner, Debussy, Chopin, Faure, Telemann, Rameau, Couperin, Bizet, Gluck, Rossini, or Hindemith


I think its more personal taste for styles and genres.  I tend to lean more towards German instrumental music, Russian and Bohemian nationalism, and the British late Romantics.

[Bonehelm]

I tend to have all or nothing (depending on the composer):

TONS of Bach, Hadyn, Mozart, Beethoven, Schubert, Schumann, Mendelssohn, Brahms, Dvorak, Tchaikovsky, Shostakovich, Stravinsky, Holst, Elgar, Vaughan-Williams, Prokofiev, Copland

ZERO of Verdi, Puccini, Wagner, Mahler, Bruckner, Debussy, Chopin, Faure, Telemann, Rameau, Couperin, Bizet, Gluck, Rossini, or Hindemith


I think its more personal taste for styles and genres.  I tend to lean more towards German instrumental music, Russian and Bohemian nationalism, and the British late Romantics.

You like German orchestral music yet you don't have Mahler or Bruckner !! 

[George]

I don't have a single Beethoven piano sonata. 

Nurse! Get me 75 cc's of Op. 110!! Stat!!!


Seriously, what's the matter? 

[Steve]

Hehe. I am pretty sure it is not a leap at all to suggest all posters on this board have listened to more than they have purchased... Except maybe Harry as he probably has more stacks of CDs (and 800 CD shipments) he hasn't listen to than I have in total. 

Still, 10 percent of his collection is devoted to Elgar? 

[Heather Harrison]

My collection is very broad, so it is hard to think of major deficiencies.  However, out of those mentioned here, Liszt is underrepresented; I have a few LPs, but no CDs.  Until recently, Bruckner was a major shortcoming, but I just rectified that situation by purchasing a set of symphonies and a set of masses.  Now that I am reminded of Liszt, I have a feeling that CDs of his music will be added to my collection this weekend.  I like his music, but for some reason I haven't bought any since the days of the LP.  I guess it is a matter of getting around to it, as was the case with Bruckner.

There are a few deficiencies that I can think of within the works of certain composers.  I would like to get more of Beethoven's piano sonatas, lieder, and other chamber music.  (I have the string quartets.)  Mozart's solo keyboard music is also somewhat underrepresented.  Bach wrote so much that it is difficult to have everything (except, perhaps, by buying a complete set); I would really like to get more of his cantatas and organ music.  I have much of Dvorak's chamber music, but I should really get a complete set of his symphonies; I only have two or three of them now (and only one on CD).  Wagner is very well-represented in my DVD collection, but not in my CD or LP collection.

If I do some digging, I'm sure I will find more.

Heather

[hornteacher]

You like German orchestral music yet you don't have Mahler or Bruckner !! 

Point taken.  Perhaps I should say, "Classical and non-Wagner-influenced Romantic German instrumental music."

.......bit of a mouthful though.  I'm not anti-Mahler, I just haven't got hooked on it yet.

[Bonehelm]

Point taken.  Perhaps I should say, "Classical and non-Wagner-influenced Romantic German instrumental music."

.......bit of a mouthful though.  I'm not anti-Mahler, I just haven't got hooked on it yet.

That's fine. If you want to discover his world some day, be sure to check out the Kubelik set and the Bernstein set. Top-notch stuff. 

[Bogey]

Only 4 Bruckner cds on the shelf.  Embarrassed by this number?  You bet.  Going to sit around and do nothing about it?  Not a chance!

[SonicMan46]

Why no operas Dave?

Hello, Harry - well, not from not trying, but wife & I just can't get into liking operas over so much more entertainment to enjoy for us (CDs, DVDs, etc.); plus, my father may have 'did me in' at a tender age!    Spent my 'younger' years in & near Toledo, Ohio (place of birth) - father loved opera, esp. the Italian ones, so had plenty of LPs playing in the house all of the time (not a kid enjoyment for me); in addition, the Toledo Museum of Art (a wonderful museum BTW) had a travelling opera series come through the city for many years, so my father would take me (mother refused to go!), and I guess the experience was just 'too much' - like my mother trying to get me to like beets!  OTOH, I'm willing to try again - planning to 'rent' some DVDs - like to have both the visuals & the music/singing, and definitely need 'subtitles'; so, I've tried, but just doesn't 'click' for me - 

[hornteacher]

That's fine. If you want to discover his world some day, be sure to check out the Kubelik set and the Bernstein set. Top-notch stuff. 

Noted for future purchases.

[George]

Only 4 Bruckner cds on the shelf.  Embarrassed by this number?  You bet.  Going to sit around and do nothing about it?  Not a chance!

That's the spirit! 

[BachQ]

Almost nothing pre-1640.  No Monteverdi.  No Palestrina.

[springrite]

There is only one I can think of: Eotvos. I do have a couple of very very short pieces as fillers. I don't think I am missing anyone who could be considered majors.

[toledobass]

At the risk of being banned from the site:

String quartets by Beethoven and Bartok.


Allan

[Bogey]

At the risk of being banned from the site:

String quartets by Beethoven and Bartok.


Allan

Who's Bartok?  0:)

Check that!  I have two cds of his works on the shelf.

[Xenophanes]

If I knew more about some composers, I suppose I would recognize some big gaps in my collection. But I have some works by most of the major composers I know of.

Now, as for the composers I do know and love, well, I think if I had to do it over again, I would have more sets of symphonies, concertos, sonatas, and so on. By sets, I don't necessarily mean a set by a particular conductor, but count it even if I just have all of the works of a particular type by a composer. But complete sets would have been no more expensive in the long run. I'll only mention some I would like to have--there a lots of sets I have no particular desire to have.

I have long had all the symphonies by Beethoven, Brahms, Franck (several complete sets), Rachmaninoff and Sibelius.  I have acquired several sets of Beethoven symphonies, and recently got a set of all the Mozart symphonies and now have all the Mendelssohn  and Bruckner symphonies.

Although I have some symphonies by these composers, I do not have the all the symphonies by Haydn, Schubert, Mahler, Vaughan Williams, Bax, Prokofiev and Shostakovitch. 

Only fairly recently did I get a complete set of Mozart's symphonies and the Beethoven Piano sonatas. I have a lot of Haydn symphonies, but not a complete set of them. I don't have all the symphonies by Schubert or even Tchaikovsky.

I recently got a complete set of the Beethoven sonatas--I don't recognize some of them!  I could get more music by Bach, all the Cantatas, more keyboard music, more organ music. I have few sonatas by Haydn and Mozart.  I have quite a bit, but I don't have all of the piano music by Chopin, Schumann, Brahms, Rachmaninoff, Debussy, Bartok, and others.

[mahlertitan]

i have no symphonies by Schumann! no, not William Schuman, Robert Schumann!

[Bogey]

No operas to speak of....some highlight type discs. 

And, no Brahms' Requiem on the shelf....how serious of a hole is this?