Whether you have a physical collection, a flac archive, or just receipts because you only stream you can participate in this.
I was inspired by a tag on booktube... and also from some of the revelations I had looking over old purchases.
1. What is the oldest recording in your collection? i.e. what is your first purchase?
2. What is the newest?
3. What composer or performer do you have the most recordings of that YOU HAVEN'T LISTENED TO!
4. What recording did you buy because it was on a deep sale but regret purchasing?
5. What recording do you most regret buying or were just shocked that you even bought it (why did I buy this??)
6. Is there anything you bought that you completely forgot you owned?
I also challenge you to take at least one of your answers and give it a listen!
I'm running out of time so I'll post my answers later. :)
1. My first CD which I still have is Richard Strauss Alpine Symphony with Zubin Mehta and the LA Philharmonic. Fantastic sound considering it was from the 1970's.
2. Havergal Brian's Faust
3. None, I've listened to them all but maybe some of my pop albums or Philip Glass' Making of the Representative for Planet 8 is one I just don't enjoy so never listen to but his string quartet disc is one of my favorites.
4. None, or I sold ones I don't listen to.
5. I once bought a disc sold by my uber driver of his own music. I'm pretty sure I don't have it anymore.
6. Yes, I accidently bought the same disc twice forgetting I already owned it if that counts. I sometimes get suckered in buying a new anniversary edition of a film score which I later realize is inferior to the one I already owned.
Quote from: DavidW on January 11, 2024, 05:26:29 AM1. What is the oldest recording in your collection? i.e. what is your first purchase?
On vinyl:
Tchaikovsky - Piano Concerto No 1 - Richter, Karajan
Schumann - Piano Concerto - Richter, Rowicki
Scarlatti - Sonatas - Ilinca Dumitrescu
(some time about 1985-6, I think)
On CD: I don't remember.
As download: I don't remember.
Quote2. What is the newest?
(https://i.scdn.co/image/ab67616d0000b273def3784f4a59e340da2dadd4)
Quote3. What composer or performer do you have the most recordings of that YOU HAVEN'T LISTENED TO!
Mozart.
Quote4. What recording did you buy because it was on a deep sale but regret purchasing?
Never happened to me.
Quote5. What recording do you most regret buying or were just shocked that you even bought it (why did I buy this??)
I don't have any such regret or shock.
Quote6. Is there anything you bought that you completely forgot you owned?
No.
1. What is the oldest recording in your collection? i.e. what is your first purchase?
Beethoven, piano concerti 3+4 Ashkenazy/Solti (Decca), bought Nov or Dec 1988.
(I had bought a handful of cassette tapes before that and my father had a few dozen classical LPs I listened to but as it was clear that we would get a CD player soon, I didn't buy much before CDs.)
I also have physically older CDs that I later bought used but I am not sure which one is the oldest
2. What is the newest?
Last week I got a bunch of used discs: Haydn op.55 Meta4, op.33,1/4/6/op.42 Parkanyi Q, Bartok Qts & Schubert d minor Alban Berg Quartet, Bach French Suites Koroliov
3. What composer or performer do you have the most recordings of that YOU HAVEN'T LISTENED TO!
No idea, probably Bach (partial cantatas boxes) or Beethoven. I have several symphony cycles I only dipped into and probably never listened to completely. I also have operas by Mozart, Handel and others I only listened to the first disc or so.
4. What recording did you buy because it was on a deep sale but regret purchasing?
I slightly regret the big pink Rubinstein box although the sale was irresistible (IIRC 120 EUR or so instead of 200 or more). But it's actually very nice, also in "production value". But I had most of the 20 discs most important to me before that and rarely listen to it nowadays.
5. What recording do you most regret buying or were just shocked that you even bought it (why did I buy this??)
Nothing I remember.
6. Is there anything you bought that you completely forgot you owned?
It happened but rarely that I just in time checked if I had something before I ordered it (again). I bought one recording twice accidentally but to my defense it was an earlier issue on a different label and the reissue I already had was a double disc, so hadn't realized these were the same recordings but I should have known/checked (2 Beethoven quartets with the Artemis).
Quote from: DavidW on January 11, 2024, 05:26:29 AM1. What is the oldest recording in your collection? i.e. what is your first purchase?
The best of Bach and Beethoven's 1st and 2nd on tape. On cd I have no idea. For downloads it was one of the Suzuki Bach cantatas volume that I bought on eclassical.
Quote2. What is the newest?
Previn Rach 2. If I posted this thread slightly later in the month it would be the Pettersson edition.
Quote3. What composer or performer do you have the most recordings of that YOU HAVEN'T LISTENED TO!
Bach. At first I thought it was Mozart due to picking up the Mozart edition last year, but then I remembered that I listened to it twice over when I owned it in the past. But with Bach I'm frequently picking up box sets (cantatas and organ music), and even though I listen to him a lot, I can't keep up!
Quote4. What recording did you buy because it was on a deep sale but regret purchasing?
I have an album of some esoteric Havergal Brian symphonies (i.e. not the Gothic) and I do wonder what I was thinking. It was an odd impulse buy since I'm not a fan of that composer.
Quote5. What recording do you most regret buying or were just shocked that you even bought it (why did I buy this??)
There is a 9/11 work and I don't remember if it was Adams or Reich where some dull music is overlayed with reading out loud I think the names of those lost but it could have been something else. It was pretentious, uninteresting and written more cynically than out of any true emotional investment.
Quote6. Is there anything you bought that you completely forgot you owned?
Sadly too many, but I will go with... Szymanowski. And that is because it is a real whopper of a lost memory. I had his orchestral music, chamber music, a vocal work... I was really into him at some point 10-15 years ago and I didn't even remember that. Shockingly poor memory!!
1. What is the oldest recording in your collection? i.e. what is your first purchase?
I purchased a blob of discs to start. I know Neville Marriner's version of Haydn's Paris Symphonies was in the mix, but I can't remember everything in the purchase.
2. What is the newest?
Monteverdi's complete Madrigals led by Rinaldo Alessandrini and Florian Uhlig's Schumann.
3. What composer or performer do you have the most recordings of that YOU HAVEN'T LISTENED TO!
Monteverdi's complete Madrigals led by Rinaldo Alessandrini and Florian Uhlig's Schumann
4. What recording did you buy because it was on a deep sale but regret purchasing?
The closest is a next to free Xenakis download that almost sent me into a deep, deep depression because it was so awful, but at the same time, it helped set a new benchmark for awfulness against which I can compare all future purchases.
5. What recording do you most regret buying or were just shocked that you even bought it (why did I buy this??)
None
6. Is there anything you bought that you completely forgot you owned?
Um, yes, more and more each year. Just yesterday, I listened to MTT's SFS Debussy recording which I had forgotten I purchased. I confess to this being a delightful development.
1. What is the oldest recording in your collection? i.e. what is your first purchase?
Beethoven complete symphonies, Philadelphia/Muti
2. What is the newest?
Richard Strauss wind music, Netherlands Wind Ensemble/de Waart
3. What composer or performer do you have the most recordings of that YOU HAVEN'T LISTENED TO!
Ummm...maybe Mozart or Haydn. I've got the London Symphonies but I've only listened to 2 or 3 of them maybe.
4. What recording did you buy because it was on a deep sale but regret purchasing?
None.
5. What recording do you most regret buying or were just shocked that you even bought it (why did I buy this??)
None.
6. Is there anything you bought that you completely forgot you owned?
No.
Quote from: DavidW on January 11, 2024, 05:26:29 AMWhether you have a physical collection, a flac archive, or just receipts because you only stream you can participate in this.
I was inspired by a tag on booktube... and also from some of the revelations I had looking over old purchases.
1. What is the oldest recording in your collection? i.e. what is your first purchase?
2. What is the newest?
3. What composer or performer do you have the most recordings of that YOU HAVEN'T LISTENED TO!
4. What recording did you buy because it was on a deep sale but regret purchasing?
5. What recording do you most regret buying or were just shocked that you even bought it (why did I buy this??)
6. Is there anything you bought that you completely forgot you owned?
I also challenge you to take at least one of your answers and give it a listen!
I'm running out of time so I'll post my answers later. :)
1. A very cheap "The Greatest Classical Hits" CD of Mussorgsky's orchestral music played by Sofia Philharmonic Orchestra and conducted by Ivan Marinov. This was mid 90's, a couple of years before I got into classical music more seriously. I understood and knew almost nothing about classical music. I was interested of having at least one CD of classical music and tip my toes to such music.
2. Haydn - Sturm und Drang Symphonies Nos. 44, 45 and 49. Kölner Kammerorchester/Helmut Müller-Brühl/Naxos 8.551072. Price 7.31 € delivered. Used CD, good condition.
3. I don't think I have any classical music I haven't listened to. This is not surprising since I don't buy much classical music these days.
4. Christian Geist - Spirit of Geist - Royal Concertos. Capella Rediviva/Boo Peter Tillberg. Daphne 1020. The recorded sound is bad, amateurish. Otherwise fine.
5. A damn Rossini CD on Naxos. I have dumped that to my sister because she asked me to donate her CDs I want to get rid of.
6. I have dozens of CDs I don't remember owning. Revisiting my collection gives a lot of surprises! That's one reason I don't buy much classical music anymore. Revisiting my collection is exciting and free!
When I got my first CD player selection of CDs was thin. I think my first batch of (very expensive CDs) include Karajan's Alpine, Yo-Yo Ma's Bach Suites for Unaccompanied Cello, Maazel's Symphonic Domestica with the WPO.
First purchase - my first CD was Dowland's First Booke of Songes from the Consort of Musicke - I still have this as part of the Complete Works box, although have long parted with the original single disc.
Most recent purchase - Rubbra Viola and Violin Concertos - Little/Golani/Handley (2 days ago).
Most unheard recordings - probably Mozart, thanks to Complete Editions.
Cheap but regretted - possibly EMI's Verdi Great Operas - just don't know when I'll have time or inclination to listen to it.
Why did I buy this?? - Talk Talk's Spirit of Eden and Laughing Stock - really can't make any sense of these at all.
Bought but forgotten - No idea when or where I acquired Johannes Tinctoris - Secret Consolations performed by Le Miroir de Musique, but it definitely deserves a spin.
1. What is the oldest recording in your collection? i.e. what is your first purchase? First thing I ever bought was an LP of Solti doing Mendelssohn 4/Schubert 5, and shortly after that an LP of Karajan doing Wagner preludes. First CD I think was Solti's Mahler 8.
2. What is the newest? Since it just came today, the Maskuniitty/Oramo CD with the Schumann 4 horns thingie.
3. What composer or performer do you have the most recordings of that YOU HAVEN'T LISTENED TO! Possibly Schnittke, since I have about a dozen but can't stand listening to any of it.
4. What recording did you buy because it was on a deep sale but regret purchasing? no answer
5. What recording do you most regret buying or were just shocked that you even bought it (why did I buy this??) Probably anything by Dittersdorf, with anything by Havergal Brian a close second.
6. Is there anything you bought that you completely forgot you owned? No, because I just finished putting together an inventory of all my CDs.
Fun thread!
Quote from: DavidW on January 11, 2024, 05:26:29 AM1. What is the oldest recording in your collection? i.e. what is your first purchase?
Couldn't say with complete accuracy, but quite possibly the first Naxos release of
Sibelius' KullervoQuote from: DavidW2. What is the newest?
Digital downloads of the
Fritz Reiner and Sony
Pierre Boulez boxes at supraphonline.com
Quote from: DavidW3. What composer or performer do you have the most recordings of that YOU HAVEN'T LISTENED TO!
Gonna go with
Haydn, since I "inherited" the Brilliant box, but haven't finished making my way through it.
Quote from: DavidW4. What recording did you buy because it was on a deep sale but regret purchasing?
A super-budget box of
Bach which just wasn't worth it. Saw it on the shelf at Newbury Comics, I think.
Quote from: DavidW5. What recording do you most regret buying or were just shocked that you even bought it (why did I buy this??)
The most nearly apt reply I can think of is ... the cpo box of the complete
Milhaud symphonies. For me it was a profound disappointment.
Quote from: DavidW6. Is there anything you bought that you completely forgot you owned?
I'm sure there are, still, but the recent incident which had me chuckling was: a friend posted that he was listening to
Herreweghe's recording of
Stravinsky's Threni, and I sought out a discounted copy at BRO, and only then did I think to check my Amazon purchsase history, and of course I already owned it.
I want to add a 7th question to the survey, for a more positive spin on things:
7. Are there any recordings/composers/works you went in blind on but now have become firm favourites?
Quote from: Maestro267 on January 12, 2024, 12:12:38 AMI want to add a 7th question to the survey, for a more positive spin on things:
7. Are there any recordings/composers/works you went in blind on but now have become firm favourites?
I think Alessandro Scarlatti fits that bill. I bought the Naxos CD "A ROMAN CHRISTMAS" of Italian baroque concertos and cantatas by Stradella, A. Marcello, A. Scarlatti, Albinoni and Corelli. This was some 25 years ago. I may have heard Domenico Scarlatti's music, but not Alessandro Scarlatti who in my opinion is (was?) a very overlooked composer.
Quote from: Karl Henning on January 11, 2024, 05:31:28 PMFun thread!
Couldn't say with complete accuracy, but quite possibly the first Naxos release of Sibelius' Kullervo
A bit surprising to me Karl. I would have guessed you bought your first classical music very young before Naxos even existed, perhaps not even CDs! Sibelius is also surprising for me.
Quote from: Maestro267 on January 12, 2024, 12:12:38 AM7. Are there any recordings/composers/works you went in blind on but now have become firm favourites?
When I first got into "classical" music, ALL composers were new to me and for two decades afterwards my musical horizon was limited mostly to the big names of the Baroque, Classicism and Romanticism. Then I stumbled upon GMG and everything changed at fast pace. In a few years I expanded my musical interests to unprecedented breadth and depth and discovered tons of wonderful music --- but I can't really say it was blind shots, because precisely thanks to GMG I knew beforehand that I might like it.
Quote from: 71 dB on January 12, 2024, 02:53:30 AMA bit surprising to me Karl. I would have guessed you bought your first classical music very young before Naxos even existed, perhaps not even CDs! Sibelius is also surprising for me.
You're absolutely right, but between various relocations and selling vinyl or CDs over the years, I no longer own any of "my original library," so my replies reflect my library as it presently exists. The first CD I bought was actually the Rykodisc Frank Zappa issue with both
Lumpy Gravy and
We're Only In It For the Money.
1. What is the oldest recording in your collection? i.e. what is your first purchase?
---Gershwin: An American in Paris for 2 pianos (Lebeque Sisters)
2. What is the newest?
---Reznicek: Der Sieger
3. What composer or performer do you have the most recordings of that YOU HAVEN'T LISTENED TO!
---Well, the Rubenstein Magabox. Of the 142 CDs, I have listened to 2.
4. What recording did you buy because it was on a deep sale but regret purchasing?
---Gunter Raphael (5 CDs)
5. What recording do you most regret buying or were just shocked that you even bought it (why did I buy this??)
---None (other than the Raphael above)
6. Is there anything you bought that you completely forgot you owned?
---None. (But there are ones that I do not own or, more than likely, borrowed by others but never returned, that I thought I have!)
The first classical LP I purchased was Barenboim conducting NYP in Tchaikovsky's 4th Symphony on CBS.
For CD Haitink's Decca recording of Shostakovich 5th.
Quote from: Maestro267 on January 12, 2024, 12:12:38 AMI want to add a 7th question to the survey, for a more positive spin on things:
7. Are there any recordings/composers/works you went in blind on but now have become firm favourites?
Gorecki! I bought the cd of the famous Upshaw/Zinman third because I was browsing a music store and I liked the cover and hadn't read any forum posts about that composer before that point.
1. What is the oldest recording in your collection? i.e. what is your first purchase?
Fennell, Holst Suite, Telarc
2. What is the newest?
Vaughan Williams, 49th Parallel, Yates, although not really classical, I store it there.
3. What composer or performer do you have the most recordings of that YOU HAVEN'T LISTENED TO!
Beethoven; maybe Mozart, perhaps Haydn
4. What recording did you buy because it was on a deep sale but regret purchasing?
Sibelius, Davis, RCA; many on BMG/Columbia House record clubs ended up this way. I might even include Maazel's Strauss on RCA too.
5. What recording do you most regret buying or were just shocked that you even bought it (why did I buy this??)
Box sets. I usually don't buy them because I tend not to listen to them all or revisit; no more paperweights. Be gone, J. Evans Pritchard, Ph.D.
6. Is there anything you bought that you completely forgot you owned?
Anytime I buy something I already own is frustrating, at least when I am not trying to upgrade with a remaster. I think I did that with Markevitch's Lili Boulanger last, which I thought I had lost from a move.
7. Are there any recordings/composers/works you went in blind on but now have become firm favourites?
Magnard Sym 3 & 4 Ossonce. Loved the cover; ended up loving the music.
Quote from: DavidW on January 11, 2024, 05:26:29 AMWhether you have a physical collection, a flac archive, or just receipts because you only stream you can participate in this.
I was inspired by a tag on booktube... and also from some of the revelations I had looking over old purchases.
1. What is the oldest recording in your collection? i.e. what is your first purchase?
Oldest recording per se would be the stuff Caruso recorded in his first sessions via an EMI GROC issue. First LP I bought with my own money was Vivaldi's Four Seasons. Don't remember the performers, but it was on the Odyssey label, so if it ever appeared on CD it would have been on Sony or an allied label.
First actual CD was the score to
Amadeus.
Quote2. What is the newest?
Bacewicz Symphonies 3 and 4 on Chandos*; Mozart Symphonies 29 and 40 with Oboe Concerto on Aparte; Beethoven Missa Solemnis conducted by Savall; Shostakovich Symphonies 2,3,12,13 conducted by Nelsons on DG
Quote3. What composer or performer do you have the most recordings of that YOU HAVEN'T LISTENED TO!
I've got several sets of Wagner's operas that I've never got around to listening to.
Quote4. What recording did you buy because it was on a deep sale but regret purchasing?
None. There have been some I bought because they were cheap, and I was willing to take a chance at the price, and ended up not really liking--but "regretting the purchase" is not the best term to use.
Quote5. What recording do you most regret buying or were just shocked that you even bought it (why did I buy this??)
Cameron Carpenter's Bach CD.
Quote6. Is there anything you bought that you completely forgot you owned?
It's happened several times to me.
Quote7. Are there any recordings/composers/works you went in blind on but now have become firm favourites?
Peteris Vasks would be the likely answer here.
*I happen to be listening to it now.
Quote from: Karl Henning on January 12, 2024, 06:13:10 AMYou're absolutely right, but between various relocations and selling vinyl or CDs over the years, I no longer own any of "my original library," so my replies reflect my library as it presently exists. The first CD I bought was actually the Rykodisc Frank Zappa issue with both Lumpy Gravy and We're Only In It For the Money.
Oh, that surely explains it Karl. ;) I believe this thread is for classical music. The Mussorgsky CD I mentioned was my first classical CD. The first
music I ever bought in any format was
S-Express -
Original Soundtrack on vinyl in 1989 and then I re-bought the same album on CD when I bought my first crappy JVC CD player in summer 1990 for 700 Finnish marks (about 120 euros converted without inflation).
1. What is the oldest recording in your collection? i.e. what is your first purchase?
Ashkenazy's first recording of the Chopin Etudes on a Saga LP. It probably changed my life more than any other non-organic artefact ever has done.
(https://i.ebayimg.com/images/g/s3oAAOSwKfFllziy/s-l1600.jpg)
2. What is the newest?
Scriabin: Morceaux & Piano Sonata No. 5 - Rachmaninov: 13 Preludes Op.32, Konstantin Lifschitz (Denon)
4. What recording did you buy because it was on a deep sale but regret purchasing?
Beethoven symphonies, Masur, Gewandhausorchester Leipzig (Philips Classics)
5. What recording do you most regret buying or were just shocked that you even bought it (why did I buy this??)
Mahler 5, Rattle, Berlin Philharmonic (EMI Classics)
Great reviews, couldn't stand it.
6. Is there anything you bought that you completely forgot you owned?
Take your pick. In the early days when I was rapidly acquiring LP's, there were a lot more than one.
Quote from: Maestro267 on January 12, 2024, 12:12:38 AMI want to add a 7th question to the survey, for a more positive spin on things:
7. Are there any recordings/composers/works you went in blind on but now have become firm favourites?
Suk! I bought 5 or 6 Suk CDs (Supraphon) for the beautiful paintings on the cover. As it turns out, the music is beautiful and I went back to buy more!
1. Non classical I bought Outkast ATLiens and NIN The Downward Spiral roughly around each other and both remain favorites though for NIN I typically reach for The Fragile more these days. Classical it was Horowitz playing Scarlatti in one of those blue cover Sony CDs, I still adore Scarlatti and if I had a time machine Horowitz would be on the list of musicians I'd want to see.
2. Reissue - Celibidache Conducts Bruckner 4, 6-8, Munchner Phil live recordings on Sony, six SACD compilation. New music - Het Collectief Messian Quatuor pour la fin du temps, Murail Stalag VIIIa (bought mainly for the Murail piece, I have too many Quartet For the End of Time performances).
3. Composer I don't think any. Performer Alfred Brendel Complete Philips though not sure if that counts as I sold it.
4. Alfred Brendel Complete Philips, I am just not a Brendel fan.
5. I can't remember any.
6. I generally have a decent memory so I will include three CDs I purchased twice by accident - Gardiner Brahms Requiem, Robert Shaw Dvorak Stabat Mater, Polyansky Rachmaninoff All Night Vigil. This is some really strange coincidence that they're all choral music. Assuming there are six major subgenres of classical music it's a 0.4% chance that they'd all be choral music.
1. What is the oldest recording in your collection? i.e. what is your first purchase?
For proper classical music, the Varèse Complete Works, Chailly.
(https://i.discogs.com/ICDJ7WHC6rX9ODOjisUhuvcT99toP2jhT_j6un8LU7M/rs:fit/g:sm/q:90/h:518/w:600/czM6Ly9kaXNjb2dz/LWRhdGFiYXNlLWlt/YWdlcy9SLTEzMTAz/NzgtMTIwODU4NDU3/NS5qcGVn.jpeg)
2. What is the newest?
The Reiner Complete RCA Album Collection (download).
3. What composer or performer do you have the most recordings of that YOU HAVEN'T LISTENED TO!
Probably Beethoven in the above. There's too much twentieth century stuff I want to hear.
I don't have anything in the remaining categories, have been very careful what I buy.
1. What is the oldest recording in your collection? i.e. what is your first purchase?
LP: cannot remember. probably something by Debussy or Ravel.
CD: Koechlin: Le buisson ardent / Segerstam
2. What is the newest?
Uuno Klami: pianoconcerto nr 1 "Une nuit à Montmartre"
3. What composer or performer do you have the most recordings of that YOU HAVEN'T LISTENED TO!
Bach
4. What recording did you buy because it was on a deep sale but regret purchasing?
Several - but d'Indy symphony nr . 3 stands out.
5. What recording do you most regret buying or were just shocked that you even bought it (why did I buy this??)
Several - but Bach/Vivaldi (4 pianos) stands out. I discovered not liking Bach on the piano.
6. Is there anything you bought that you completely forgot you owned?
Not really. I should listen to Schütz Psalmen Davids more often.
7. Are there any recordings/composers/works you went in blind on but now have become firm favourites?
Brahms choral music.
1. What is the oldest recording in your collection? i.e. what is your first purchase?
Circa 2006, A handful of introductory HMV Classics CD's (Handel, Vivaldi, Wagner, Shostakovich).
Once I discovered GMG a weeks later, my first "proper" purchases were: LVB Symphonies by Karajan '63, Tallis Spem in Alium by Summerly/Naxos, Pergolesi Stabat Mater by Alessandrini/Naive
2. What is the newest?
LvB String Quartets by the Alban Berg Quartet.
3. What composer or performer do you have the most recordings of that YOU HAVEN'T LISTENED TO!
JS Bach - approx. 3/4 of the Cantatas cycle by Harnoncourt/Leonhardt, the full cycle by Rilling, the partial cycle by Fritz Werner.
4. What recording did you buy because it was on a deep sale but regret purchasing?
The Complete JS Bach edition by Brilliant. it never convinced me about JSB at the time. I gave it away for a church fair tombola. It took me 15 years to eventually find my entry point in JSB, with him now representing 12% of my collection. See also (3) ;D
5. What recording do you most regret buying or were just shocked that you even bought it (why did I buy this??)
The Beethoven Sonatas by Brautigam, the sound of pianoforte never worked for me. Probably the complete DG & RCA recordings by Sviatoslav Richter. Never really got into those at all. I might re-assess all those sometimes.
6. Is there anything you bought that you completely forgot you owned?
Not really. I see the covers on MusicBee every day,
7. Are there any recordings/composers/works you went in blind on but now have become firm favourites?
Based on word of mouth here, two spring to mind: The Secret Labyrinth and De Leidse Koorboeken sets.
Quote from: Papy Oli on January 15, 2024, 07:20:52 AM4. What recording did you buy because it was on a deep sale but regret purchasing?
The Complete JS Bach edition by Brilliant. it never convinced me about JSB at the time. I gave it away for a church fair tombola.
Oh yes! I only ever had one of the Cantata boxes from this edition, but mine went the same way. The solo singing was painfully bad, as I recall.
Quote from: DaveF on January 15, 2024, 07:48:44 AMOh yes! I only ever had one of the Cantata boxes from this edition, but mine went the same way. The solo singing was painfully bad, as I recall.
The only thing I liked in that box were the Harry Christopher and the Sixteen recordings of the great vocal works (Leusink did the cantatas). It is a shame because I think Brilliant did a pretty good job with the Mozart, Haydn and Beethoven editions.
Quote from: Papy Oli on January 15, 2024, 07:20:52 AMTallis Spem in Alium by Summerly/Naxos
Quite a few of my first-ish CD ourchases were
Summerly/Oxford Camerata.
A lot of the harpsichord and organ recordings from the Brilliant Bach edition were quite good, certainly solid, also the secular cantatas (East German 70s/80s recordings).
1) My first purchase (LP) was Beethoven's symphony nr. 2 with The Philharmonia Orchestra and Otto Klemperer. I haven't kept it because I have purchased the recording on CD.
2) My latest purchase was vol. 2,3,4 and 5 of Helga Schauerte's Buxtehude organ integral. I owned vol. 1 already.
3) Must be Beethoven. I own 40 complete sets of the string quartets and have only listened to about 25 % of the CDs so far.
4) If it is on a deep sale I don't expect much and concordantly there is little to regret.
5) Don't recall precisely because this has happened to me more times and because I probably have culled the CD at some point. Oh, wait - a four CDs box with organ works of Messian played by himself may qualify as answer to this question.
6) If so I have forgotten about it.
7) Hindemith. Purchased many years ago Ludus Tonalis with Hans Petermandl (his first recording on Supraphon). I didn't know anything about Hindemith at that time and took the chance. And this became the beginning of my love for Hindemith.
1. What is the oldest recording in your collection? i.e. what is your first purchase?
Rachmaninov Isle of the Dead and Symphonic Dances with Ashkenazy and the Concertgebouw. Heard it while browsing at Tower Records in Baltimore, and bought it on the spot.
2. What is the newest?
Mahler Symphony No. 8 with Vänskä and Minnesota.
3. What composer or performer do you have the most recordings of that YOU HAVEN'T LISTENED TO!
Probably Bruckner.
4. What recording did you buy because it was on a deep sale but regret purchasing?
Can't think of a single one, but then, I take pride in choosing carefully.
5. What recording do you most regret buying or were just shocked that you even bought it (why did I buy this??)
Again, can't think of one. I do get occasional review copies in the mail, and sometimes the sender clearly has no inkling that this recording is something I'm not interested in (e.g., some of the various "crossover" recordings).
6. Is there anything you bought that you completely forgot you owned?
If I forgot it then, I've probably forgotten it now. ;D
Thanks for an entertaining exercise, and I'm enjoying reading others' responses.
-Bruce
Quote from: DavidW on January 11, 2024, 05:26:29 AMWhether you have a physical collection, a flac archive, or just receipts because you only stream you can participate in this.
I was inspired by a tag on booktube... and also from some of the revelations I had looking over old purchases.
1. What is the oldest recording in your collection? i.e. what is your first purchase?
2. What is the newest?
3. What composer or performer do you have the most recordings of that YOU HAVEN'T LISTENED TO!
4. What recording did you buy because it was on a deep sale but regret purchasing?
5. What recording do you most regret buying or were just shocked that you even bought it (why did I buy this??)
6. Is there anything you bought that you completely forgot you owned?
I also challenge you to take at least one of your answers and give it a listen!
I'm running out of time so I'll post my answers later. :)
I'll assume you're asking only about classical recordings. The jazz records in my collection are far older and more numerous. That said;
1) The oldest:
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Beethoven Juilliard String Quartet Quartet In C-Sharp Minor, Op. 131 (1962, RCA Victor Red Seal)
2) The newest:
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Gustav Leonhardt J.S. Bach English Suites / Partitas (1985, Virgin)
3) The composer most represented and undiscovered (listened): Easy
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J.S. Bach4) I don't regret purchasing anything. I've given away/donated most of my collection over the years.
5) Most regretted purchase: Ditto.
6) Neglected disc(s):
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John Eliot Gardiner Mozart Operas
(2011, Archiv Produktion)
Ok, so I'm taking your challenge and listening (for the first time) to
Die Entführung aus dem Serail (The Abduction from the Serraglio). Luckily, some kind soul uploaded a fine version of the Gardner edition so I can listen while I watch the Eagles game. (I'll do a closer listen over the next few days. :P ) Thanks, David.
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John Eliot Gardiner Mozart Operas
(2011, Archiv Produktion)
Sorry, but I have to say it: The Krips version appeared in the sidebar and you know what they say about curious minds (no cracks)... I like it better. :-[
thanks again!
Quote from: ando on January 15, 2024, 04:15:22 PMSorry, but I have to say it: The Krips version appeared in the sidebar and you know what they say about curious minds (no cracks)... I like it better. :-[
I know you didn't ask but my favorite PI recordings of his operas are Rene Jacobs and MI is Bohm.
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Quote from: DavidW on January 16, 2024, 03:06:08 AMI know you didn't ask but my favorite PI recordings of his operas are Rene Jacobs and MI is Bohm.
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Same here!
Quote from: DavidW on January 16, 2024, 03:06:08 AMI know you didn't ask but my favorite PI recordings of his operas are Rene Jacobs and MI is Bohm.
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After clicking like (and I love the top--older one), I realized that I was thinking of a different Mozart opera conducted by Jacobs. :-[
PD
Quote from: Pohjolas Daughter on January 17, 2024, 11:45:42 AMAfter clicking like (and I love the top--older one), I realized that I was thinking of a different Mozart opera conducted by Jacobs. :-[
PD
That is fine, I heard them all! :)
Quote from: DavidW on January 17, 2024, 01:19:00 PMThat is fine, I heard them all! :)
The Jacobs recording that I have of his is this one (which I quite enjoy):
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PD