Amazing shortcomings in your collection

[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?

[Bonehelm]

Sir Edward Elgar.

[Philoctetes]

None.

[71 dB]

Sir Edward Elgar.

Nearly 10 % of my classical collection is Elgar. 

None.

Good for you!

[Harry]

Dear friend that list is as long as the road from Groningen to Siberia.

[Black Knight]

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?

Hm, let's see, I have like no CDs... 

[jwinter]

Probably the biggest shortcoming in my collection is the relative shortage of opera (out of all my CDs, I only own 2 Rings [one of which was less than $10 so I couldn't resist], Tristan, Parsifal, Don Giovanni, Otello, and Fidelio) and an almost complete absence of lieder (maybe half a dozen CDs, mostly Mahler).  I've tried, but so far it's just not my cup of tea -- partly it's the language barrier, partly I just haven't warmed to the operatic style of singing.  Maybe one of these days...

[Sergeant Rock]

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?

Beethoven An die ferne Geliebte. Bogey just reminded me that I'm missing that major song cycle.

Sarge

[beclemund]

I try to explore at least one or two new-to-me composer every month. Generally, my collection focuses on Bruckner, Operas (Mozart always first), Bach and Pärt (in that order ) to the exclusion of many others, so there are AMAZING shortcomings throughout my collection.

Sometimes, my regular diversions from that core result in some extra flights through new artists, I picked up a collection of Heinichen concertos and sonatas from CPO and then could not help but want to find more. I really enjoy the Dresden Concerti... great for a Friday morning pick-me-up. The same is true of Biber. I would never have found his wonderful Rosary Sonatas and gorgeous Missa Christi resurgentis if I did not force myself to explore...

Next month, I plan to pick up a Joachim Raff symphony or chamber work or two.

[techniquest]

I expect it's about musical taste rather than oversight. I have no works from the following, for example:
Mozart
Haydn
Schuman
Chopin
Handel
Vivaldi
...but that's because I'm not keen on their music.

[PerfectWagnerite]

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

Hmmm, for someone who has no Berlioz CDs you sure refer to him quite often, like how Beethoven can't orchestrate like Berlioz or how Elgar and Berlioz are similar.

[SonicMan46]

Well, I have no operas at all, just some 'overture' CDs of a few of the well known composers (Mozart, Verdi, Wagner, Puccini, and some others); otherwise, the collection is fairly well-rounded - 

[Steve]

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?

You don't own a single Mahler CD! It looks like your comparisons between Elgar and Mahler are quite groundless.

From the standard repotoire, I'm missing only a few works. Many notable collections of Lieder are absent, as well as some well-known solo pieces for Piano.

[Harry]

Well, I have no operas at all, just some 'overture' CDs of a few of the well known composers (Mozart, Verdi, Wagner, Puccini, and some others); otherwise, the collection is fairly well-rounded - 

Why no operas Dave?

[beclemund]

You don't own a single Mahler CD! It looks like your comparisons between Elgar and Mahler are quite groundless.

That is a silly leap there... what I have listened to is far greater than what I own. I regularly visit the library, sometimes I listen to Internet radio, etc... The same is probably true of 71 dB.

[Wendell_E]

I don't have a single Beethoven piano sonata. 

I only have one recording of a Tchaikovsky symphony.

I only have one disc each of Rachmaninoff and Elgar, no Vaughn Williams, and no recordings of Vivaldi concertos (I do have a couple of his operas, and Bartoli's Vivaldi disc), but those aren't really amazing, and not likely to change, either.   

[Steve]

That is a silly leap there... what I have listened to is far greater than what I own. I regularly visit the library, sometimes I listen to Internet radio, etc... The same is probably true of 71 dB.

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.

[orbital]

I wouldn't know where to start 

From the names mentioned so far: Extremely miniscule Dvorak (2 CDs), Mozart (6 or 7), Haydn (1 and that is actually a cello anthology set), Mahler (1 DVD-A of Symph 2), Wagner (none), Vivaldi (none), Berlioz (1 Symph Fantastique), VW (a CD of 2 symphonies, forgot which ones  ).

[71 dB]

Hmmm, for someone who has no Berlioz CDs you sure refer to him quite often, like how Beethoven can't orchestrate like Berlioz or how Elgar and Berlioz are similar.

I was talking about symphonies.

I don't have his Symphonie Fantastique but I have L'enfance du Christ. I wish I had much more Berlioz but what can I do? No money, no Berlioz.

That is a silly leap there... what I have listened to is far greater than what I own. I regularly visit the library, sometimes I listen to Internet radio, etc... The same is probably true of 71 dB.

I have heard Mahler and other composers on radio. I have streamed Mahler online thanks to certain urls published on this forum.

[Mark]

Very, very little Liszt, Schumann and Schubert. This always shocks me. Has done for 16 years. Not enough to do much about it, though, obviously.

No Reich. No Biber. No Telemann. Almost no Prokofiev. And not one Vaughan Williams symphony. The list is endless ...