Amazing shortcomings in your collection

[techniquest]

I also have no operas; nor any solo piano music, only 1 sq disc (Shostakovich 1, 8, 9). No Brahms, Liszt, Monteverdi, Smetana or that wretched Canon & Guige thing by Pachebel - in fact no Pachebel!

[The new erato]

No Mozart Requiem among my 3000 CDs, though I have an old LP but no record player.....

[Florestan]

I have very few operas and no Bruckner at all. Also, music post-1975 (Shostakovich's death) is virtually absent from my collection, with the splendid exception of Karl Henning.

[Sergeant Rock]

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

Life threatening. Get the Klemperer as quickly as possible...your life depends on it.

Sarge

[BachQ]

No Mozart Requiem among my 3000 CDs,

That's amazing ......... I simply cannot believe it ........ 

[BachQ]

No Brahms

[BachQ]

no Brahms' Requiem ....how serious of a hole is this?

[Grazioso]

No Rachmaninov. I've heard him but haven't gotten around to buying his major works yet No pre-Baroque music. I've never even heard Rossini, outside of the famous Bugs Bunny cartoon

[71 dB]

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

Almost 10 %. Out of about 700 classical CDs I have 57 Elgar CDs.
Even with this amount of CDs there are Elgar works I have never heard. 

[Daverz]

No complete recording of Messiah, only Stokowski conducting selections.

[val]

71 dB

What are the amazing shortcoming of your collection?

Well, not a shortcoming, but in fact an amazing thing. I have both Elgar Symphonies !!  

[Daverz]

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

I've always disdained highlights, but I should probably buy them since I'm too lazy to listen to the opera boxes I  have.

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

I would try to hear it at least.  It's not something I ever have a hankering for.  I don't think you necessarily need to own a recording.  But then I could say that about a lot of the CDs I own.

[Haffner]

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. 

Bernstein! Karajan!

[Bogey]

Life threatening. Get the Klemperer as quickly as possible...your life depends on it.

Sarge

LOL!

[johnshade]

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Shortcoming in my collection is probably chamber music with the exception of Beethoven and Bartok. Shortcoming, e.g., the chamber music of Brahms. I have a large collection of orchestral works, operas, choral works, and lieder.

[Philoctetes]

I suppose I should make it clear that I have no shortcomings in my collection because I have little use for most music, of which shall surely give me a straight shot to hell.

[Heather Harrison]

Reading through this reminds me of another shortcoming.

Brahms is well-represented in my collection; I have multiple performances of his symphonies, much of his other orchestral music, most of his concertos, much of his chamber music, and his German Requiem (on LP, but not on CD).  However, I do not have a single CD or LP devoted to his solo piano music.  I have a few solo piano pieces here and there on various-composers recordings by specific pianists, but nothing comprehensive.  I can't, for the life of me, figure out why I have overlooked this for all these years.  I think I'll have to try to fix this deficiency this weekend.  I'll probably also get the German Requiem on CD, but I'm not in a huge hurry since the LP I have is in good shape and is a decent recording (Handel and Haydn Society/Edward Gilday - 1963).  Interestingly, an Internet search turns up hardly any references to this recording; it is not on CD and I turned up only one LP for sale, and no reviews.

Heather

[Bunny]

I'm always finding shortcomings in my collection which is why I keep buying and buying and buying and buying and buying and buying and .........................buying(n+1)!

[Daverz]

I just checked: I don't have a single recording of Chabrier's España on CD.

[Mark]

Life threatening. Get the Klemperer as quickly as possible...your life depends on it.

Sarge

Or not.

At the risk of being controversial (and having now heard seven or eight different performances), I'd put Klemperer waaaaay down my list. Maazel, Haitink, Norrington (yes, Norrington) - hell, even the '77 Karajan - go in above the Klempster in my pecking order. But hey, we're all different. Gun to the head? Maazel. Or Haitink.