What % of your classical listening is live?

[The new erato]

When a concert is very good, it rather trounces recordings.  I saw Haydn's The Creation just last weekend, and it was spectacular, and was far more satisfying than even Paul McCreesh's recording.  Such concerts are well worth the money. 

I do agree. The problem is too many warhorses in most programs. With more intersting repertoire I'd go more often, though I've managed to hear both Turangalila live (twice!) as well as Schoenberg's Gurrelieder (devastating experince that no record can recreate, even remotely).

[Karl Henning]

I do agree. The problem is too many warhorses in most programs. With more intersting repertoire I'd go more often . . . .

One solution there might be chamber and choral music; groups in those genres often program more adventurously.

[The new erato]

One solution there might be chamber and choral music; groups in those genres often program more adventurously.

Yes inded, and for the coming 5 months I have tickets for the following in my hometown Bergen:

Chabriers opera L'Etolie
A Madrigal programme by Les Artes Florissantes
Handel's Xerxes by the Komische Oper Berlin
A trio programme by Truls Mørk and assorted partners (Shostakovich among other stuff)
A chamber programme by Vilde Frang (Faure and Prokofiev sonatas)

Programmes by the Bergen Philharmonic (a very good outfit BTW, check their presence on BIS); tend to be pretty stale but I haven't checked their schedule for the spring.

[some guy]

One of Karl's comments, probably on the companion thread, about who was likely to get over 10% on the live side got me curious about my own %. (No, I was not curious before that. I don't usually keep track of how much of this or that I listen to.)

And my rough estimate is 30% live.

Would that it were more.

[Marc]

For the last 3 years, I've been visiting between 15 and 20 concerts a year, mainly due to my increasing organ interest.

But the amount of 'non-live' listening time at home and during (home-work-home) travelling still takes about 99% of my total listening time.

Therefore I 'voted' 0%.

[mszczuj]

10%? At least one concert each day? Impossible!

[ibanezmonster]

In the old days, this poll wouldn't even make sense. The old days weren't that great.

[Lethevich]

In the old days, this poll wouldn't even make sense. The old days weren't that great.

They scare me. Audiences had to demand certain works they liked were repeated because they knew that they might never hear them again.

Imagine hearing something amazing, then having to rely on a failing, fading memory of it

[ibanezmonster]

They scare me. Audiences had to demand certain works they liked were repeated because they knew that they might never hear them again.

Imagine hearing something amazing, then having to rely on a failing, fading memory of it

I would be buying scores and piano transcriptions like a madman...

[eyeresist]

I voted 0%. On my income, the choice between an expensive concert ticket and an inexpensive CD is a no-brainer. There may be small cheap concerts going on, but it's too difficult to get the info in time, they tend to be in remote (to me) locations, or in repertoire that doesn't excite me enough to get me out of the house. There are a couple of "event" works I might make an exception for, but they are things that will probably never be performed in Sydney.

[Fëanor]

Wow! I'm amazed I'm one of an absolute majority of 0%.  Well, maybe it's actually 0.01% for me but zero is close enough.

[Geo Dude]

Currently 0% due to lack of access.