Which Pieces Do You Have The Most Versions Of On Recording?
Me, currently it is Handel's Giulio Cesare in Egitto. I can think of four versions in my collection. Oh the shame of it ...
Edit: it won't be too long before that hits five versions because there is one other version I have been waiting to buy. It's all a matter of time. Oh the extra shame of it ...
Last edited by HarpsichordConcerto; Aug-26-2011 at 15:31.
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Are we counting CDs, DVDs, or both?
If it's the latter, for me it's a three-way tie between Die Walkure, Parsifal, and Don Carlo(s)--three DVDs and one CD of each.
After that come La Traviata (3 DVDs), Otello, Der Fliegende Hollander, Lohengrin, and Das Rheingold (2 DVDs and 1 CD of each).
Not that I like Wagner and Verdi or anything.
Norma.
I'm well ahead of one hundred.
Onegin: four on CD and one DVD.
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Beethoven 9th Symphony, Moonlite Sonata, kv466, Tchaikovsky Concerto in b-flat...
Stravinsky - The Rite of Spring: 7 versions
Shostakovich - Symphony No 5: 8 versions
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[Looks around.] We're still in the opera forum, right?
Last edited by amfortas; Aug-27-2011 at 01:29.
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Everyone is going to be so surprised ....
Simon Boccanegra
5 DVDs & 2 CDs
Ann
The Onegin I mentioned at first has five recordings. I just counted and I have the same number of Flying Hollanders. Don't even know why, it probably wouldn't even be present in my top 5 Wagner operas.
This shouldn't take long!
Mahler - 7-8 recordings of each symphony and DLvdE (I will stop once I get the Levine box plus one or two other isolated recordings). Along the way I have accumulated 9 Kindertotenlieders as well (mostly as fill-ups).
Bruckner - 3 of symphony 00, 5 of symphony 0, 6 of symphony 1 and 7 each of symphonies 2-9 (that will do for me now).
Beethoven - 6 of symphony 9 and 5 each of the others (will probably stop when I get the Gardiner box).
Schubert - 6 of symphony 9 and 5 of the unfinished (will stop once/if Bruggen box gets reissued plus I also want Wand's Berlin PO 8 and 9 on RCA).
I've also got multiple recordings of Dvorak's Czech and American suites but that's more by luck than design AKA the Fill-Up Factor.
I've got many operas on CD but unlike quite a few of the esteemed forum members I have never been inclined to collect more than one recording of the ones I've got.
No, I think we might have got lost.Looks around. We're still in the opera forum, right?
Natalie
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Don Giovanni - 9 DVDs and 3 CDs
La traviata - 7 DVDs and 3 CDs
Tosca - 5 DVDs and 5 CDS
Natalie
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I should clarify: this thread for opera, any medium whether CD, DVD, Blue-Ray etc. But never mind! Just share with what you have.
I'm not the biggest fan of Wagner, but I do enjoy his operas. Yet I have two version of the Ring and two versions of Parsifal. Other operas by other composers I enjoy more, and I also have two or three versions. So I was thinking a lot of it had to do with commercial reasons, sale/discount from the shops, availability of versions due to populatrity etc. as well as being dissatisfied with existing versions of a great work (to some degree).
Figaro - 4 versions
Don Giovanni - 3 versions
Cosi fan tutti - 4 versions
And quite a few other operas with two versions - Verdi, and of Puccini especially.
Myaskovsky Cello sonatas/Cello Concerto -
Martina Tarasova
Mistlav Rostropovich
Truls Mork
Mischa Maisky
Julian Lloyd Weber
Natalia Gutman
Szymanowski String Quartets No. I & II
The Varsovia Quartet
The Carmina Quartet
The Silesian Quartet
The Wilanow Quartet
The Royal String Quartet
The Maggini Quartet
The Szymanowski Quartet
Janacek String Quartets No.s I & II
The Vlach Quartet
The Gabrieli quartet
The Hagen Quartet
The Smetana Quartet
The Janacek Quartet
The Dante Quartet
The Pavel Haas Quartet
I listen to vinyl LP or CD. I'm not keen on electronic/digital downloads. The amount of hard drive failures .....
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