Most multiple recordings you have?

[George]

I like Giles 

I do too. He, Rubinstein and Serkin(m) sit close behind my favorites.   

[71 dB]

I am a man of one copy of each work. When I have bought a good version of a work I feel I have it and I move forward to other works. There is so much interesting music/works out there! Having just one version of them all is totally hopeless.

I have many versions of popular Elgar (Enigma etc.). Seven Enigma's I think...

[Greta]

My vice is Holst's Planets Suite. I have upwards of 40 recordings now and no plans to stop.

I'm not searching for "the best", butI  just enjoy hearing all the different interpretations of a piece I know and love so well. It was one that I just about wore out my first recording of, and I said someday, I will study this. So here I am.

Are any of you familiar with Eric Grunin's Eroica Project? I would dearly love to someday do a project like that, and it may be something I start in earnest on this summer now that I feel have at least enough recordings to start. Fascinating work he's done on that.

[karlhenning]

I am a man of one copy of each work.

Much to be said for that;  though I marvel that you are content with that Naxos account of Falstaff! 

[prémont]

Twenty-Nine Moonlight sonatas.

Eighty Moonlight Sonatas.

[George]

Eighty Moonlight Sonatas.

You win.

Your favorites?

[Sergeant Rock]

Mahler 5, sixteen.

BERNSTEIN VPO
SINOPOLI PHILH
LEVINE PHILADELPHIA
MAAZEL VPO
SCHERCHEN O NAT ORTF
BARENBOIM CHICAGO
BARSHAI JUNGE DEUT PHIL
KARAJAN BERLIN PHIL
CHAILLY CONCERTGEBOUW
BERTINI KÖLNER RSO
NEUMANN GEWANDHAUS LEIPZIG
BARBIROLLI NEW PHILHARMONIA
HAITINK BERLIN PHIL
HAITINK CONCERTGEBOUW
KONDRASHIN MOSCOW RADIO
KUBELIK SOBR


Sarge

[prémont]

You win.

Your favorites?

In no special order from memory:

Casadesus, Capova, O´Connor, Barenboim (2 and 3, haven´t heard 4 yet), Annie Fischer, Heidsieck, Bachaus (1 and 2), Badura-Skoda (1 and 2), Levinas, Bolkvadze, Bilson, Anda, Solomon (1), Grinberg, Lubin.

[Todd]

Annie Fischer

But which Annie Fischer?  (There are three commercially available ones that I know of.)

[George]

But which Annie Fischer?  (There are three commercially available ones that I know of.)

1. Hungaroton, complete set

2. BBC Lgends

3. ?

[George]

Barenboim (2 and 3, haven´t heard 4 yet),

I know he did 1 set for EMI and 2 for DG, what was the fourth?

[karlhenning]

But which Annie Fischer?

I drew scorn from a certain erstwhile neighbor for questions like that 

[PerfectWagnerite]

Mahler 2nd (20)

Solti
Inbal
Mehta
Klemperer
Walter
Tennstedt
Kubelik
Bertini
Gielen
Bernstein(SONY)
Bernsetin(DG)
Kaplan(VPO)
Kaplan(LSO)
Scheren
Levi
Slatkin
Litton
Dohnanyi
Abbado(the earlier one)
The one in themixed Brilliant Classics box that I don't know who the conductor is

And about the same number of Mahler 3rds.

[prémont]

But which Annie Fischer?  (There are three commercially available ones that I know of.)

The Hungaroton version. I neither know the BBC nor the EMI version. Actually I used to own the EMI version of Sonatas 8 and 21 from the 1950es, but I found the playing awfully stiff. Caused by your insistent recommendation of the Hungaroton integral, I acquired this half a year ago, and I certainly don´t regret this a minute. But as my prevailing musical interests lie in other stylistic periods, I haven´t so far had the time to investigate Annie Fischers Beethoven further, even if I have put the EMI recordings on my wish-list.

[prémont]

I know he did 1 set for EMI and 2 for DG, what was the fourth?

1) Westminster 1950es (LP coupled with no 8 and no 23 of course. Even the Diabellis were recorded).
2) EMI 1960es
3) DG
4) EMI recent DVD publication

I only know about one integral for DG, do you know something, I don´t know??

[techniquest]

Mahler 2 by far and away...

Vinyl:
Haitink (complete symphonies)
Solti
Faberman
Tennstedt
Wyn Morris
Neumann
Walter (NYPO)

CD Box sets:
Chailly
Tennstedt
Harvath (Slovenian box)

CD:
Caetani (actually that's an audio dvd)
Nanut (though I've heard it's not actually him...)
Fischer
Segerstam
Wit

Downloaded:
Neschling (Sao Paulo SO)
Boulez (BBCSO '73)
Boulez (Vienna PO '05)
Kreizberg (Neth PO '4)
Temirkanov (Danish Nat Radio)
Myung-Whun Chung (French Radio PO '04)
Paternostro (Staatsorchester Kassel '07)
Rattle (Philharmonia '81)
Salonen (Swedish radio SO '04)
Wolff (2006)

Plus a few video recordings from Proms, etc over the years thatare now burned to DVD.

Like Greta, I'm not searching for 'the best', but enjoy listening to the different interpretations. I have binned a few downloaded recordings (not from the list above) because I have not liked the interpretations or the recording is poor.

[George]

1) Westminster 1950es (LP coupled with no 8 and no 23 of course. Even the Diabellis were recorded).
2) EMI 1960es
3) DG
4) EMI recent DVD publication

I only know about one integral for DG, do you know something, I don´t know??

Sorry, I assumed that the recent set on DVD was with DG. 

[Daverz]

Apparently I've acquired 11 recordings of Ravel's Rapsodie espagnole:

Martinon
Stokowski/LSO
Monteux
Skrowaczewski
Paray (stereo)
Bernstein/NYPO
López-Cobos
Silvestri (on EMI)
Reiner/CSO
Silvestri/CzPO
Munch/Boston

[rubio]

I have about 10 versions each of Mahler Symphony 5 and Bruckner Symphony 8. Two of my favourite symphonies, so I really need a variety of interpretations. But I think I will try to stop at 10, and rather buy more different works.

[Steve]

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