This forum is lousy with guys - any girls out there that listen to Classical?

[zamyrabyrd]

On the contrary, I think this is a board of "listeners" and music lovers, a "company of dilettanti" (in the original sense of the last word), as opposed to a board of professional performers or musicians, even if here there is a good number of professional performers and composers. But even the last ones are principally listeners, when they participate here.

Indeed! If I had to describe what I do in music, honestly, it would be listen - "hark" - first. This is primary, leading to the urge to repeat or reproduce it.

Timewise, listening is what I do most of the day or night, hear music either in my head or from recordings. Usually, there is ONE major work I concentrate on, if not busy with teaching, that happens to be now a piece I am working on, still going on in my head away from the piano. And then there is talking about music which is important, listening to what others have to say.

I wonder if non-musicians are like this or if they think we are nutty or abnormal.

ZB

[Karl Henning]

Hoy, ZB!

[Ken B]

Agreed.  Even confining the discussion to musical activities, collector would rank low among my titles 

How many recordings of Shostakovich symphonies do you own? Ditto Stravinsky ballets.

[Karl Henning]

More than the average classical music fancier would find needful.

[EigenUser]

Note that I've heard much more than I have (thanks to YouTube), but to answer your questions

How many recordings of Shostakovich symphonies do you own?

I have one of No. 1 (since we played it at my university's orchestra) and one of No. 9 (big surprise! ). That's it, and I'm fine with that for now.

Ditto Stravinsky ballets.

I have one Rite, one Firebird (only because it came with Rite), one Petrushka, one Agon, one Orpheus, and one Apollo (the last two only because they came with my favorite one, Agon). Again, I'm fine with that for now.

Even my favorite piece, Bartok's "Music for Strings, Percussion, and Celesta", I have only three recordings. Out of that, my go-to one is CSO/Reiner. It isn't that the others aren't any good (they're outstanding), rather just that I find the Reiner the most to my taste. I like what he does with it and it is the one that is (probably literally) etched in my eardrum/brain.

In fact, the other day I realized that I have more copies of the score (three) to Debussy's "Trois Nocturnes" than I do recordings (two). I got a mini Dover score a few months ago in Texas at a music store, then I got a big conductor's score from a music store that was closing last month (), and then I got a third copy a few days ago that came in a box of old scores from eBay. I still need to break the bindings on each just so I can have them re-bound in their separate movements.

[Scion7]

Well, if all this off-topic stuff from the 'sausage party' has not run them away from my original post (you know, who are you? make some posts, yada-yada) nothing will !

[Wanderer]

More than the average classical music fancier would find needful.

So, like, 2?

[Ken B]

So, like, 2?

I was thinking, like any, for some of them.