Most multiple recordings you have?

[Tsaraslondon]

When I first started collecting CDs, I vowed not to get multiple versions of one work. However, looking through my collection now, I see I haven't been very successful. I have two versions of 20 different works, 3 verions of La Sonnambula (all Callas), Lucia di Lammermoor (ditto) and Aida (Callas's studio and Mexico city performances and Karajan II).
4 versions of Ravel's Scheherazade (Baker, Crespin, De Los Angeles, Teyte)
5 verions of Strauss's Vier letzte Lieder (3 Schwarzkopf recordings, Popp and Janowitz)
But the most I have of anything is Berlioz's Les Nuits D'Ete with 7 versions:-
Baker/Barbirolli
Baker/Giulini
Baker/Hickock
Crespin/Ansermet
Daniels/Nelson
Armstrong/Patterson/Shirley-Quirk/Veasey/Davis
Steber/Mitropoulos
Not quite sure how that happened, but I wouldn't part with any of them.

[Mark]

eclassical.com has high quality samples, and let me know of your impressions when you do get it.

Going there now for a listen. And yes, I'll PM you when (eventually) I get it.

[Guido]

10 Versions of the Dvorak Cello concerto, 11 versions of the Barber cello concerto, 10 versions of the Walton cello concerto.

[Mark]

Folks, thanks to Drasko's mention of it, I've just acquired Rachmaninov's All-night Vigil with Tenebrae/Nigel Short (Signum) by downloading it from www.eclassical.com ... bringing my 'Vespers' running total to 14.

[sunnyside_up]

I try not to have multiple recordings but sometimes I feel the need! Most of mine are Bach ones (favourites in bold):
B Minor Mass (Herreweghe, Gardiner, King)
St Matthew Passion (Herreweghe 2, Gardiner, Cleobury)
St John Passion (Herreweghe, Cleobury)
Goldbergs (Gould, Rousset, Schiff, Belder- can't pick a fave)
Sonatas & Partitas for solo violin (Lubotsky, Tognetti - with Rachael Podger on order)
Quite a few Brandenburgs and Orchestral Suites, concertos
Many cantatas, as a result of trying to collect as many different interpreters as I can.
There are others but these are the first to spring to mind.

[George]

I can't take Beethoven in bad sound anymore. I am sorry. As plentiful as there are of great great Beethoven cycles out there I don't have to live with horrible sound 0:)

Have to say that I'm inclined to agree ... even if that does mean I'm missing out on some terrific historic interpretations.

More for me gents.  Now if you'd step aside, the store closes in just a few minutes. 

[George]

Twenty-Nine Moonlight sonatas.

Perhaps we should post our favorites as well?

Mine is a tie: Annie Fischer and Bernard Roberts. 

Make that 30!!

[knight66]

But the most I have of anything is Berlioz's Les Nuits D'Ete with 7 versions:-
Baker/Barbirolli
Baker/Giulini
Baker/Hickock
Crespin/Ansermet
Daniels/Nelson
Armstrong/Patterson/Shirley-Quirk/Veasey/Davis
Steber/Mitropoulos
Not quite sure how that happened, but I wouldn't part with any of them.

All of those except Armstrong or Crespin....however add, de los Angeles, Greevy, Karnaus, te Kanawa, Norman, Graham and the multiple singer version with Gardiner conducting, the round dozen.

Mike

[Tsaraslondon]

All of those except Armstrong or Crespin....however add, de los Angeles, Greevy, Karnaus, te Kanawa, Norman, Graham and the multiple singer version with Gardiner conducting, the round dozen.

Mike

I had the De Los Angeles version on LP (in a wonderful box set called Les Introuvables de Victoria De Los Angeles, and would love to have it on CD, but I have a feeling it's only available coupled to Testament's issue of Manon, which I already have in an EMI pressing. Do you know if it is available anywhere on a singel disc?

[knight66]

I have it on an RCA double of Berlioz pieces. I think Munch is the conductor. Can't verrify just now because all my CDs are in store as we are about to move.

Mike

[Lilas Pastia]

Probably the Bruckner symphonies.   

3: 16
4: 23
5: 21
6: 12
7: 21
8: 37
9: 27

That's small brew compared to one of our esteemed posters who can boast 2-3 times as much for each of them .

Beethoven symphonies 3 and 9: between 12-15. Everything else is in smaller numbers.

[Tsaraslondon]

I have it on an RCA double of Berlioz pieces. I think Munch is the conductor. Can't verrify just now because all my CDs are in store as we are about to move.

Mike

Thanks, Mike. I'll have a search for it.

[Poetdante]

Rachmaninov's Piano Concerto No.2

Ashkenazy - 60's, 70's, 80's
Richter
Zimerman
Andsnes
Lang Lang
Zilberstein
Grimaud
Kun-woo Paik
Kissin
Vasary
Berezovsky

Maybe the second is Chopin's Prelude, although I did not count.  

[Dancing Divertimentian]

Might be a record of some sort, but five recordings of The Opera That Shall Remain Nameless:

• Cluytens
• Abbado
• Dutoit
• Baudo
• Haitink

(Used to own a sixth: Karajan).

Others...

Four of Berg's Wozzeck:

• Böhm (DG)
• Abbado
• Dohnanyi
• Boulez

Four of Berg's Lulu:

• Böhm (Andante)
• Böhm (DG)
• Ludwig
• Boulez

Four Sibelius cycles:

• Blomstedt
• Vänskä
• Barbirolli
• Ashkenazy

Six Mahler 9's:

• Bernstein (DG)
• Tilson Thomas
• Chailly
• Ancerl
• Sinopoli
• Boulez

Seven of Bartok's Concerto for Orchestra:

• Fischer
• Solti
• Chailly
• Jansons
• Dutoit
• Eschenbach
• Dohnanyi

Two of Shostakovich's opera The Nose:

• Rozhdestvensky
• Jordan

(Why is this important? Because AFAIK, these are the only two in existence!!)


And if I had kept them all maybe a dozen of Mozart's Jupiter symphony.

[MishaK]

The one of which I have the most recordings is Symphonie fantastique. Well over twenty at last count. Off the top of my head, not being home to verify:

Abbado CSO
Ansermet OSR
Barenboim OdB
Barenboim BPO
Barenboim CSO
van Beinum RCO
Bernstein NYPO
Cluytens ORTF
Davis RCO
Gardiner OReR
Haitink VPO
Jansons RCO
Jansons BPO
Kempe BPO
Marekvich BPO
Martinon ORTF
Monteux SFSO
Munch BSO
Ormandy Philly
Pretre VSO
Solti CSO 1970
Solti CSO 1991
Stokowski
Tilson Thomas SFSO

I used to also own but culled:

Golschmann VPO
Paray DSO

and have listened to but not bought a few more: e.g. Boulez/Cleve, Karajan PO, Davis LSO live, Markevich Lamoureux, Karajan BPO, etc.

I have a decent number of Brahms and Bruckner symphonies as well. Must be close to 20 Bruckner 4s and a good dozen complete Brahms cycles.

[MishaK]

Seven of Bartok's Concerto for Orchestra:

• Fischer
• Solti
• Chailly
• Jansons
• Dutoit
• Eschenbach
• Dohnanyi

You absolutely must add Boulez/CSO to that list.

[Mark]

The one of which I have the most recordings is Symphonie fantastique. Well over twenty at last count. Off the top of my head, not being home to verify:

Abbado CSO
Ansermet OSR
Barenboim OdB
Barenboim BPO
Barenboim CSO
van Beinum RCO
Bernstein NYPO
Cluytens ORTF
Davis RCO
Gardiner OReR
Haitink VPO
Jansons RCO
Jansons BPO
Kempe BPO
Marekvich BPO
Martinon ORTF
Monteux SFSO
Munch BSO
Ormandy Philly
Pretre VSO
Solti CSO 1970
Solti CSO 1991
Stokowski
Tilson Thomas SFSO

I used to also own but culled:

Golschmann VPO
Paray DSO

and have listened to but not bought a few more: e.g. Boulez/Cleve, Karajan PO, Davis LSO live, Markevich Lamoureux, Karajan BPO, etc.

Have you heard the Davis/VPO recording on Philips? It was the interpretation of that work which finally made it hit home for me.

[Sergeant Rock]

Might be a record of some sort, but five recordings of The Opera That Shall Remain Nameless:

• Cluytens
• Abbado
• Dutoit
• Baudo
• Haitink

(Used to own a sixth: Karajan).

You got rid of Frederica!!!    I'm shocked, shocked I tell you.

Sarge

[Sergeant Rock]

The one of which I have the most recordings is Symphonie fantastique. Well over twenty at last count. Off the top of my head, not being home to verify:

Abbado CSO
Ansermet OSR
Barenboim OdB
Barenboim BPO
Barenboim CSO
van Beinum RCO
Bernstein NYPO
Cluytens ORTF
Davis RCO
Gardiner OReR
Haitink VPO
Jansons RCO
Jansons BPO
Kempe BPO
Marekvich BPO
Martinon ORTF
Monteux SFSO
Munch BSO
Ormandy Philly
Pretre VSO
Solti CSO 1970
Solti CSO 1991
Stokowski
Tilson Thomas SFSO

I used to also own but culled:

Golschmann VPO
Paray DSO

All those Symphonie Fantastiques and missing the only one anyone really needs: Norrington and the London Classical Players.



Sarge

[MishaK]

Have you heard the Davis/VPO recording on Philips? It was the interpretation of that work which finally made it hit home for me.

No, I haven't. How does it differ from his Concertgebouw version (which generally is considered his finest by critics)? I find Davis generally meticulous, but not really involving. My tops are still Markevich/BPO, Pretre and Jansons, though I also very much like Cluytens and Barenboim OdP and CSO.

All those Symphonie Fantastiques and missing the only one anyone really needs: Norrington and the London Classical Players.

O, I heard that recording and decided that if there is one recording of Op.14 I don't need, that must be the one.