Amazing shortcomings in your collection

[Bunny]

Gluck's Orfeo ed Eurydice

Wozzeck 

I recently found rené jacob's recording of Orfeo for about $8.00 at a used cd store.  and in mint condition.  It's darn good, too.  Recommended!

[Wendell_E]

Thanks to this thread, I have addressed two of the shortcomings in my collection. 

And I ordered the Brilliant Classics set of Gulda playing the Beethoven Piano Sonatas.

[greg]

hmmmm

composers I have very little or no CDs of though i'd like more:

Vaughan-Williams
Nono
Arvo Part
Dvorak
Saint-Saens
Ades
Bruckner (i just have the 4th and 7th)
Elgar
Percy Grainger
Cowell
Hindemith (just have Ludus Tonalis)
Babbitt
Feldman
Pettersson (although i've heard all of his symphonies)
Corigliano
Tippett
Benjamin Britten
Gyorgy Kurtag
Lutoslawski
Dutilleux
George Benjamin
Frank
Mendelssohn
Haydn
Bax
Gubaidulina
Terry Riley

composers I have very little or no CDs of, probably have heard a lot of their music and I don't really care to have any of their CDs:
Wagner
Mozart
Chopin
Delibes
Beethoven
Gottschalk

[marvinbrown]

hmmmm

composers I have very little or no CDs of, probably have heard a lot of their music and I don't really care to have any of their CDs:
Wagner
Mozart
Chopin
Delibes
Beethoven
Gottschalk

   Ouch!  3 of the big four are on that list (Wagner, Beethoven and Mozart) (what about J.S. Bach??) and Chopin too!  I am always amazed by the diversity of musical interests of the GMG members.  What some of us consider GREAT or ESSENTIAL for any music collection others consider unacceptable or unfavorable.....I guess variety is the spice of life after all!!!!

  marvin

  marvin

[greg]

   Ouch!  3 of the big four are on that list (Wagner, Beethoven and Mozart) (what about J.S. Bach??) and Chopin too!  I am always amazed by the diversity of musical interests of the GMG members.  What some of us consider GREAT or ESSENTIAL for any music collection others consider unacceptable or unfavorable.....I guess variety is the spice of life after all!!!!

  marvin

  marvin

yeppity deputy! (that's my own phrase i coined a couple years ago but has been previously unreleased now to the victims of the GMG forum)

I looooooooooooove Bach. Those other guys I've heard quite a bit of, and like just a little and might not be able to stand some. Bach is yummy.

[Haffner]

   Ouch!  3 of the big four are on that list (Wagner, Beethoven and Mozart) (what about J.S. Bach??) and Chopin too!  I am always amazed by the diversity of musical interests of the GMG members.  What some of us consider GREAT or ESSENTIAL for any music collection others consider unacceptable or unfavorable.....I guess variety is the spice of life after all!!!!

  marvin

  marvin

I imagine that I'd be listening to music about 1/3   less than I do now if I cut out Mozart, Beethoven, and Wagner. But then, most already knew that, huh ?

[marvinbrown]

I imagine that I'd be listening to music about 1/3   less than I do now if I cut out Mozart, Beethoven, and Wagner. But then, most already knew that, huh ?

  Yes and my condition would be a lot worst than yours...my collection would drop 3/4 of what it is today.

  marvin

  PS: I better take out an insurance policy on my collection of Wagner, Mozart and Beethoven cds!!!!

[George]

And I ordered the Brilliant Classics set of Gulda playing the Beethoven Piano Sonatas.

One of my very favorite sets. You chose wisely. 

[toledobass]

Reminds me what my grandfather used to say everytime we drove by a cemetery. "People are dying to get in there."

Or like my friend who works in a mortuary says about her job,  "It's a dying business."

Allan

[George]

Or like my friend who works in a mortuary says about her job,  "It's a dying business."

Allan

[Haffner]

  Yes and my condition would be a lot worst than yours...my collection would drop 3/4 of what it is today.

  marvin

  PS: I better take out an insurance policy on my collection of Wagner, Mozart and Beethoven cds!!!!

[ChamberNut]

Shortcomings in my collection:

Haydn - Symphonies and String Quartets

Mozart - String Trios, Quartets and Quintets, no full length operas.

Dvorak - Anything other than his symphonies and a handful of select orchestral works

Shostakovich - Symphonies and string quartets

Sibelius - Symphonies

Mendelssohn - Piano Trios

Beethoven - String Trios 

Brahms - Sonatas of any kind 

And much more!  May the Year 2008 eliminate many, if not all of these gaps! 

[david johnson]

no short-comings in my collection...it's MINE and thus reflects only what i want to hear on a regular basis.
were i building a public or college music library, i would buy differently.

dj

[marvinbrown]

Shortcomings in my collection:



Mozart - String Trios, Quartets and Quintets, no full length operas.

And much more!  May the Year 2008 eliminate many, if not all of these gaps! 

  I'd start with the String Quintets, these are in my opinion a must have.  This recording was recommended to me by the GMG members a few years ago and I think it is outstanding:
 
 

  marvin
 

[Don]

I don't have any amazing shortcomings; I do have amazing exaggerations though.

Thinking about it, I would like more of the following:

Bach Goldbergs and WTC's
Wagner Operas
Berlioz Anything
Aho

[PerfectWagnerite]

  I'd start with the String Quintets, these are in my opinion a must have.  This recording was recommended to me by the GMG members a few years ago and I think it is outstanding:
 
 

  marvin
 

I am not sure about the Talich...I have their highly touted Beethoven set and frankly I find it extremely underpowered compared to the Alban Berg, The Takacs, or even the Amadeus. But maybe their style suits Mozart more.

[marvinbrown]

I am not sure about the Talich...I have their highly touted Beethoven set and frankly I find it extremely underpowered compared to the Alban Berg, The Takacs, or even the Amadeus. But maybe their style suits Mozart more.

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

  marvin

[Don]

I am not sure about the Talich...I have their highly touted Beethoven set and frankly I find it extremely underpowered compared to the Alban Berg, The Takacs, or even the Amadeus. But maybe their style suits Mozart more.

Not in my book, but I do love the group's Janacek and Dvorak.

[gomro]

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?

No Wagner, no Mahler, no Elgar, no Dvorak, no Mendelssohn, no Schubert, no Bruckner, no Tchaikovsky... because I'm a Philistine whose tastes in music begin, basically, in the 20th century. But I do have Maxwell Davies, Gerhard, Macmillan, Milesi, Balada, Ferrero, Colgrass and Samuel Jones... because I'm a Philistine, etc.

[(poco) Sforzando]

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.