Is it just coincidence?

Gurn Blanston · October 12, 2010, 05:24:59 PM

I've been noticing recently that despite the fact that by now I have thousands of CDs (I know, my bad) there is a strange lack of certain labels in my collection, to the point when I notice immediately and wonder about it.

Like today, I got a disk of Malcolm Bilson playing Haydn, Cramer & Dussek on fortepiano. I have a few hundred fortepiano disks, and in fact I have many Bilson disks AND umpteen disks by all of those composers. But this disk was on Bridge Records, a label I have seen around quite a bit, and it is now the first disk I have on Bridge.

The same thing has happened in the last few months with Guild and Channel. $:-\$

Has anyone else noticed this? I mean, is it a phenomenon? Or am I just another Satzaroo?

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Now playing:
The Revolutionary Drawing Room - Donizetti Quartet #17 in D for Strings 2nd mvmt - Larghetto

springrite · October 12, 2010, 05:33:35 PM

I have nothing from Zig Zag label. That could be because my shopping cart is usually overflowing and way over budget before I get to the last label. (At BRO I often search by label).

Scarpia · October 12, 2010, 05:38:10 PM

Out of a collection of several thousand, I think I have about 10 from RCA. Also, a comparable number from Columbia (the LP era). Also, very few from Naxos.

Gurn Blanston · October 12, 2010, 05:56:44 PM

Quote from: springrite on October 12, 2010, 05:33:35 PM
I have nothing from Zig Zag label. That could be because my shopping cart is usually overflowing and way over budget before I get to the last label. (At BRO I often search by label).

Hunh, and yet I have a bunch from them. I think it is because I discovered them early on by serendipity and now I go hunting for them

Quote from: Scarpia on October 12, 2010, 05:38:10 PM
Out of a collection of several thousand, I think I have about 10 from RCA. Also, a comparable number from Columbia (the LP era). Also, very few from Naxos.

I would guess that a lot of the Sony Essentials that I have were Columbia's to start with. When I was first starting to buy CD's, Naxos was first starting to sell them. Their prices and my price range were a match made in heaven. I have a big bunch of Naxos', although none recently.

Saying that makes me wonder if price was a factor to some extent. Most of those indies that I am talking about not having are full-price disks... and I'm cheap.

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Now playing:
The Revolutionary Drawing Room - Donizetti Quartet #18 in e for Strings 3rd mvmt - Minuetto: Presto

springrite · October 12, 2010, 05:59:26 PM

Quote from: Gurn Blanston on October 12, 2010, 05:56:44 PMSaying that makes me wonder if price was a factor to some extent. Most of those indies that I am talking about not having are full-price disks... and I'm cheap.

All my expensive label CDs come from BRO or come used at a much lower price. I am cheap per necessity.

Gurn Blanston · October 12, 2010, 06:18:06 PM

Quote from: springrite on October 12, 2010, 05:59:26 PM
All my expensive label CDs come from BRO or come used at a much lower price. I am cheap per necessity.

I used to be cheap by necessity. Now I'm just cheap. Most of mine come from there too. And "Used" off from eBay or Amazon Marketplace. Maybe rarity at giveaway prices is the actual key factor!

The new erato · October 12, 2010, 11:14:45 PM

Most labels have areas of special strength and vice-versa. You can guess where I'm going with this....

Bridge is a label I particularly associate with American Music and American artists, not a particularly rich hunting ground for fortepiano afficionados, which means that when they do a disc like that it will be easily overlooked. Easy as that I think.....

Brian · October 13, 2010, 12:00:28 AM

Quote from: Gurn Blanston on October 12, 2010, 06:18:06 PM
I used to be cheap by necessity. Now I'm just cheap.

This might be me in a few years.

I have only 4 ASV CDs, and ALL of them feature composers whose names begin with K.

The new erato · October 13, 2010, 12:05:05 AM

The Khatchaturian series?

As an early music fan, I have tons of ASV's. Obrecht, Ockeghem, Fayrfax, Ludford to name some, as well as several discs of 20th century music (the formerly mentioned K, Howard Blake, Milhaud, Bloch) - another particular field of interest, thus confiming that our fields of interest leads us to labels.

Brian · October 13, 2010, 12:11:59 AM

Quote from: erato on October 13, 2010, 12:05:05 AM
The Khatchaturian series?

As an early music fan, I have tons of ASV's. Obrecht, Ockeghem, Fayrfax, Ludford to name some, as well as several discs of 20th century music (the formerly mentioned K, Howard Blake, Milhaud, Bloch) - another particular field of interest, thus confiming that our fields of interest leads us to lables.

2 Khachaturian, 1 Korngold, 1 Kopylov.

mc ukrneal · October 13, 2010, 12:55:35 AM

Quote from: Brian on October 13, 2010, 12:11:59 AM
2 Khachaturian, 1 Korngold, 1 Kopylov.

So funny. That was me for a while too (minus the Korngold). Then I acquired 2G (goldmark), 1C (Coates), 2 B (Balakirev), 1S (Scriabin), and 1M (Mehul). The Coates is an absolutely fabulous one if you like the music (called Under the Stars).

Scarpia · October 13, 2010, 04:54:56 AM

Quote from: Gurn Blanston on October 12, 2010, 05:56:44 PMSaying that makes me wonder if price was a factor to some extent. Most of those indies that I am talking about not having are full-price disks... and I'm cheap.

Thinking of it, the reason is that when I first started buying it was vinyl LPs. The European labels produced superior vinyl, and the US labels like RCA, and Columbia produced utter trash. When I switched to CDs my impressions of those labels has remained. To some extent it was justified. I find the audio recordings Columbia made in the 60's were not outstanding, compared to Philips, DG, Decca, etc. RCA was good until "dynagroove."