Adding 20 CDs

[Bogey]

If you could, which composer would you like to instantly add 20 cds to your shelf of?  Could be one you already have a boat-load of, or one that you would like to expand your collection.  For me, I would consider Schumann or Schubert.

[kishnevi]

William Byrd

[Air]

Franz Josef Haydn

[Coopmv]

Early music composers:  Between Byrd, Dufay, Fayrfax, Gombert, Gesualdo, Ockeghem, Palestrina and Tallis, I probably added close to 100 CD's to my library last year.

[Bulldog]

Stravinsky

[mamascarlatti]

One day someone will discover a whole pile of lost Monteverdi opera manuscripts....

[The new erato]

One day someone will discover a whole pile of lost Monteverdi opera manuscripts....

And Schutz long lost Arianna. I can think of no other musical incident as wonderful. But as for works actually excisting, we need a complete Mass Edition by Palestrina. He has written over 100, so that would be 40 CDs I would add to my collection.

[mc ukrneal]

If you could, which composer would you like to instantly add 20 cds to your shelf of?  Could be one you already have a boat-load of, or one that you would like to expand your collection.  For me, I would consider Schumann or Schubert.

I always try to add what I don't have first. I think I would choose Verdi (plenty of operas I don't have), Haydn (very little chamber music), Grechaninov (there may not be 20 discs of him, but I have 0), Prokofiev (I have a good cross-section, but while a little of everything, I don't have most of the symphonies, concertos, or operas), or Rossini (I only have a handful of the operas).

[Drasko]

Monteverdi (madrigals mostly), Rimsky-Korsakov (operas)

[mc ukrneal]

Just last week I added 22 new discs to my Bach collection. 

You got more add ons in one fell swoop than I own of Bach in total (although if you add all the Bach family discs together, I think I would exceed that)!

[vandermolen]

Interesting question.

Maybe Symanowski or Stravinsky and I just discovered a great Symphony (No 4) by Ruth Gipps - but hardly anything by her is on CD (only Symphony 2)

[Sergeant Rock]

I'd like to add Mahler cycles by Levine and Segerstam. Unfortunately, both are currently in limbo.

Sarge

[sospiro]

Good topic. 

I want the Verdi I haven't got & other versions of the ones I have.

[WI Dan]

I need lots of Haydn and Bach!

[Lethevich]

Schoenberg, namely the Chandos chamber music set, and other misc. discs.

[George]

If you could, which composer would you like to instantly add 20 cds to your shelf of?  Could be one you already have a boat-load of, or one that you would like to expand your collection.  For me, I would consider Schumann or Schubert.

If you see any of Cortot's Schumann on Biddulph, I suggest you grab it. Great stuff! Richter's Schumann is incredible, but in a very different way.

For Schubert, perhaps the box set on Music and Arts by Schnabel, mastered by Mark Obert Thorn. Or the Kempff boxset on DG.

Me, I think I'd like to add some piano works by lesser-known romantic composers and some piano works by modern composers.

[DavidRoss]

Franz Josef Haydn

Me, too.  I've added a dozen lately and half another half-dozen in mind.  I'm hard pressed to think of another major composer that my collection is so deficient in who would merit 20 more discs at one pop.  One the other hand, can you ever have too much Bach or Beethoven?   

[prémont]

If you could, which composer would you like to instantly add 20 cds to your shelf of?

I think I would add 20 CDs with sacred works by Bach.

Herreweghe, Koopman et.c.

[offbeat]

Alain Pettersson and Robert Simpson - thinking about it their style is similar in certain ways- extremely thickly scored with its secrets slow to reveal itself !!!!!

[Marc]

If you could, which composer would you like to instantly add 20 cds to your shelf of?

Shelf?