Complete Music Run: The Hard Way

[Bogey]

Which composers do you have a complete (or near complete) run of their music on the shelf without falling back on one of the Brilliant or complete sets that you can buy in a swoop? 

[Brahmsian]

Which composers do you have a complete (or near complete) run of their music on the shelf without falling back on one of the Brilliant or complete sets that you can buy in a swoop?

Brahms (albeit it is the Brilliant box set) 

Ravel

Webern (still have only dipped into it mildly)

Mahler

I think that is it.  Stravinsky is 'near complete'.

I have most (but not all, yet) of Beethoven's compositions.  Still missing the songs, and a few miscellaneous odds and ends.

[Madiel]

Well, I have a box set of all of Chopin's solo piano music - is that allowed? I've also got the two cello works elsewhere. I was going to look for a couple of discs of orchestral music and then that would be it.

I have a very large proportion of Faure's works - most of what I'm missing is choral.

And I fully intend to acquire most of the Holmboe that's actually been recorded...

[Mirror Image]

Shostakovich, Sibelius, Schnittke, Hartmann, Stravinsky, Elgar, Bartok, RVW, Ravel, Debussy, W. Schuman, Dutilleux, Aho, Part, Copland, Barber, Schoenberg, Berg, Webern, Roussel, Revueltas, Britten (not including the 'Complete Works' set on Decca - so I'm not cheating), Grainger, Delius, Honegger, Poulenc, Messiaen, F. Martin, Grieg, Nielsen, Respighi, Bruckner, Wagner, Pettersson, and I'm sure several more.

[The new erato]

I really would have liked to have Frank Martin complete, but since I am unaware of recordings of several of his works I'm not there yet.

[Bogey]

Thanks.  I have the Brilliant Beethoven, Mozart, and Haydn bricks.  These slowed my consumption of individual recordings, but were wanted because of all that I wanted to hear from each.  I believe that it would also be fun to collect all of a certain ensemble, conductor, or even label.  I wonder if my passion for Columbia mono recordings would get me close to an Ormandy run?

[Karl Henning]

Of the works with opus numbers (and actually completed) of Prokofiev, I think I am missing < 20 of the 131.

Missing more of Shostakovich's, thanks largely to how prolific he was with incidental and film music.

[Madiel]

I believe that it would also be fun to collect all of a certain ensemble, conductor, or even label.

Label seems a bit terrifying by my standards... but I am contemplating getting everything by Domus/the Florestan Trio (the marvellous pianist Susan Tomes being a common factor).

[Todd]

Webern and Decaux.

[The new erato]

Varese (pretty easy I think).

[Bogey]

Any sub runs worth mentioning.  For instance, maybe Todd has a complete run of LvB piano sonatas where each single disc is a different performer, or a complete set of Bach's cantatas where most of the discs are different ensembles.

[Todd]

Any sub runs worth mentioning.

Barenboim's complete mature Wagner operas for me.  I bought all the individual issues from BRO.  I'd almost count that as complete Wagner because, really, who cares about his other stuff, the Siegfried Idyll excepted?

Can't help on the LvB front - when a pianist starts, I get em' all, though if I surveyed my collection I might be close to a whole cycle outside of a cycle.

[Bogey]

Barenboim's complete mature Wagner operas for me.  I bought all the individual issues from BRO.  I'd almost count that as complete Wagner because, really, who cares about his other stuff, the Siegfried Idyll excepted?

Can't help on the LvB front - when a pianist starts, I get em' all, though if I surveyed my collection I might be close to a whole cycle outside of a cycle.

I have been trying (but none too hard) to do this with Bach's cantatas.  Fun to hear the variety, but I am triple digits away. 

[Karl Henning]

Well, the composers disqualified under the OP:

Brahms (Brilliant box)
JS Bach (the flash drive edition)
Stravinsky (the Igor's Own box)
Webern (the Boulez complete edition Sony reissue)
Berg (the DG box)

Whom does that leave? I suppose Schoenberg . . . I must be pretty close.

[Gurn Blanston]

Which composers do you have a complete (or near complete) run of their music on the shelf without falling back on one of the Brilliant or complete sets that you can buy in a swoop?

Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven (complete for all three). Nearly all of Schubert. Complete chamber music and nearly complete orchestral music of Brahms, Schumann, Dvorak, Tchaikovsky (OK, that was easy), Mendelssohn. Almost all of Vivaldi.

For Haydn, I do have the Big Box, but I can still make a complete set without it. Maybe 2 or 3 of them.

[Karl Henning]

Almost all of Vivaldi is a heck of an accomplishment, really 

[Sammy]

I've never put much stock in having all the music of any composer.  However, it's turned out that way concerning Scriabin, although I don't even have all of Bach.  I might have all of Mahler.

[Karl Henning]

I've never put much stock in having all the music of any composer.

I didn't think it a matter of stock . . . just of exercising one's curiosity.  And if your curiosity do not run in that fashion, no blame to anyone.

[Bogey]

I didn't think it a matter of stock . . . just of exercising one's curiosity.  And if your curiosity do not run in that fashion, no blame to anyone.

Exactly.  I am not sure that I will ever complete a composer run the hard way.  Just wondering who has, or did it just sneak up on them over the years.

Don, do you have a complete Bach cantata run?

[Sammy]

Don, do you have a complete Bach cantata run?

Yes.  That's something that's not hard to do with over 25 years of acquisitions.