Your collection

[navneeth]

Cat, could you give me more details of that LvB variations CD that you have? (Label, artist, etc.)

[Catmando]

Sure thing Nav. It is on the complete Violin Sonatas disc I have through Deutsche Gramophone.

Here is the link on Amazon of this CD:

http://www.amazon.com/Complete-Beethoven-Vol-Violin-Sonatas/dp/B000001GZA/sr=1-1/qid=1158345567/ref=sr_1_1/002-4203247-1117618?ie=UTF8&s=music

[Catmando]

It's the 8th track on Disk 2.

[Catmando]

Kremer and Argerich are the soloists on all of the sonatas, but Menuhin and Kempff are the soloists on the 12 Variations......track. Just to be clear.

[navneeth]

Thanks.

Wow! The Complete Beethoven Editon. I wonder how many here, if any, have the complete set.

[Catmando]

Thanks.

Wow! The Complete Beethoven Editon. I wonder how many here, if any, have the complete set.

I don't know. I think that one is Vol. 7. I believe that DG complete Beethoven works edition is 20 Volumes in total !

The Volume 7 Violin Sonatas is the only one I have from this the DG set.

[Shapley]

I have the complete works for solo piano on vinyl, and I think it s 21 LPs.
It's on the old Murray Hill label, which was sort of the K-tel of Classical Music.

[Catmando]

Thanks.

Wow! The Complete Beethoven Editon. I wonder how many here, if any, have the complete set.

I don't know. I think that one is Vol. 7. I believe that DG complete Beethoven works edition is 20 Volumes in total !

The Volume 7 Violin Sonatas is the only one I have from this the DG set.

Keep in mind, this is a 20 Volume Collection. Not a 20 CD collection. Each volume contains multiple CD's. Some probably have about 10 CD's in each.

[Catmando]

I have the complete works for solo piano on vinyl, and I think it s 21 LPs.
It's on the old Murray Hill label, which was sort of the K-tel of Classical Music.

I remember my Dad got most of his country music LPs through K-Tel.

Oh, the memories......Tom T. Hall, Don Williams, Charlie Pride, The Kendalls, Boxcar Willie.

OY VEY!

[Hexameron]

Good collection, Catmando. Your Beethoven is impeccable! However... where is your Liszt!?

Your Chopin is lacking too...

It would be insanely time-consuming to post my own list (I have a 9 foot tall book shelf half filled with CDs. Rough estimation is 200 CDs a shelf (I can have 3 stacks of CDs on one shelf)! That means I've got a good 500.

No need to create ten pages in a thread of just my collection, BUT I thought I would list my specialized focus of Romantic period piano music. This is rather long but easy for me to paste here because I have a list of my collection saved in a word document (yeah, I'm a geek).

Alkan

Concerto for Solo Piano (Marc-Andre Hamelin)
Beethoven-Alkan First movement from Piano Concerto No. 3
Grande Sonate Op. 33
Sonatine Op. 61
The Railway Op. 27
Esquisses Op. 63
Trois Etudes de bravoure Op. 12
Etudes Op. 39 (Jack Gibbons)
Etudes Op. 35 (Bernard Ringeissen)
Trois Grandes Etudes Op. 76
Souvenirs: Trois Morceaux dans le genre Pathetique (Marc-Andre Hamelin)
Impromptus Op. 32
Variations on a theme from Steibelt's Orage Concerto Op. 1
Rondeau chromatique Op. 12
Super flumina Babylonis, Paraphrase on Psalm 137 Op. 52
Alleluia Op. 25
Salut, cendre de pauvre! Op. 45
Le preux Op. 17

Bach

Piano Transcriptions (Saint-Saens, Siloti, Reger, d'Albert, Kabalevsky)
Partitas No. 3, 4 and 5
Chromatic Fantasy and Fugue
French Suite
Italian Concerto
Capriccio in B flat BWV 992
Hyperion's Bach Piano Transcriptions Vol. 1-6
Busoni-Bach Chaconne from VS No. 2 and Toccata and Fugue in D minor
Godowsky-Bach Violin Sonatas
Godowsky-Bach Cello Suites

Balakirev

Islamey
Eight Hand Arrangement of the Symphonic Poem "Tamara"

Beethoven

Piano Sonatas 1-32
Variations and Vignettes (Brendel)
Bagatelles
Diabelli Variations

Brahms

Four Hand Piano Arrangements of

Variations on a Theme by Schumann Op. 23
16 Waltzes Op. 39
Souvenir de la Russie
15 Neue Liebeslieder Waltzes
Serenade No. 1 in D Op. 11
Serenade No. 2 in A Op. 16
German Requiem
Symphony No. 1-4
Tragic Overture
Academic Festival Overture
Piano Concerto No. 1
String Quartets Op. 51 No. 1-2
String Quartet No. 3
String Quintet No. 1 and 2
Piano Quartet No. 1
String Sextet No. 1-2
Robert Schumann's Quartet in E flat Op. 47
Joseph Joachim's Hamlet Overture Op. 4
Franz Schubert's Twenty Landler D. 366

Bulow

Piano Transcriptions of Gluck's Iphigenie in Aulis
Reverie Fantastique Op. 7
Tarantella Op. 19
Valse de "L'ingenu" No. 12
Arabesques sur un theme de l'opera Rigoletto
Paraphrase of Die Meistersinger, Quintet from Act III

Busoni

Etude en forme de variations Op. 17
Variations on "Kommft ein vogel geflogen"
Theme and Variations in C major
Variations and Fugue on Chopin's Prelude in C minor
Theme and Variations
Fugue
Prelude and Fugue in C minor
An die Jugend
Fantasia Contrappuntistica
Improvisation on the Bach Chorale 'Wie wohl ist mir, o Freund der Seele'
Fantasie fur eine Orgelwalze (Mozart-Busoni)
Duettino Concertante nach Mozart

Chopin

Ballades 1-4
Scherzi 1-4
Sonatas 1-3
Nocturnes 1-21
Etudes Op. 10 and 25
Preludes 1-24
Complete Waltzes
Complete Polonaises
Complete Mazurkas
Impromptus 1-4
Allegro de concert Op. 46
Bolero Op. 19
Trois nouvelles etudes Op. posth 1-3
Fantaisie in F minor Op. 49
Marche funebre
Berceuse, Barcarolle, Andante Spianato & Grande Polonaise Op. 22
Variations on Mozart's "la ci darem la mano" Op. 2

Erkel

Opera Transcriptions (Batori Maria, Hunyadi Lasloz, Erzsebet, Bank ban, Sarolta, Dozsa Gyorgy)

Faure

Four Hand Arrangements of

Souvenirs de Bayreuth
Huit pieces breves Op. 84
Masques et bergamasques Op. 112
Allegro Symphonique Op. 68
Dolly Suite Op. 56

Franck

Prelude, Chorale and Fugue (M. 21)
Prelude, Fugue and Variation Op. 18 (trans. Harold Bauer)
Pastorale Op. 19 (trans. Harold Bauer)
Sonata for Violin and Piano (trans. Alfred Cortot)

Glazunov

Eight Hand Arrangement of the Symphonic Poems "The Forest" and "The Sea"

Godowsky

Passacaglia (44 variations based on the first eight bars of Schubert's Unfinished Symphony)
Complete Studies on Chopin's Etudes
Schubert Song Transcriptions
Piano Sonata in E minor

Heller

Preludes Op. 81 and 150

Henselt

Douze Etudes caracteristiques de concert Op. 2
Poeme d'amour Op. 3
Douze Etudes de salon Op. 5

Hummel

Fantasie in G minor Op. 123
Fantasie in E flat major Op. 18
Rondo quasa una fantasia Op. 19
'La contemplazione' from Six Bagatelles Op. 107
Fantasie 'Recollections of Paganini'
Fantasina in C on 'Non piu andrai' Op. 124
Complete Piano Sonatas
Liszt's Piano Transcription of Hummel's Septett Op. 74

Liszt

Oh my God, way too many...

Naxos' Complete Piano Music Vol. 1-23
Hyperion's Leslie Howard Series Vol. 1-59! (lost many a paycheck to this)
Two Piano Version of A Faust Symphony
Symphonic Poems for Two Pianos (Mangos Sisters)
Mosonyi's Piano Transcription of Liszt's "Graner Mass"

Mozart

Complete Piano Sonatas
Sonatas for Four Hands

Mendelssohn

Piano Sonata Op. 6
Prelude & Fugue Op. 35 No. 1
Variations serieuses Op. 54
Rondo capriccioso Op. 14
Complete Songs Without Words
Three Preludes Op. 104a
Three Etudes Op. 104b
Kinderstucke op. 72
Scherzo in B minor

Mosonyi

Four Hand Arrangements of the Grand Duo and Three Colors of Burning Love
Three Piano Pieces
Two Pearls
Puszta Life
Homage to the Spirit of Ferenc Kazinczy
Hungarian Musical Poem
Funeral March for the Death of Isvtan Szechenyi
Opera Transcriptions of Szep Illonka and Benyovsky

Mussorgsky

Night on Bare Mountain (trans. Tchernov)
Pictures at an Exhibition

Rachmaninoff

Variations on a Theme of Chopin
Elegie in E flat minor Op. 3
Melodie in E major Op. 3
Fritz Kreisler: Liebesleid (transcription)
Preludes Op. 32
Etude-tableaux Op. 39
Variations on a Theme of Corelli
Piano Sonatas 1-2

Rubinstein

Six Etudes Op. 23
Barcarolles 1-6
Complete Piano Sonatas 1-4

Schubert

Complete Piano Sonatas
Wanderer Fantasie
Complete Impromptus
Complete Fantasies for Four Hands
Liszt's Schubert Transcriptions

Schumann

Fantasy in C major Op. 17
Fantasiestucke Op. 12
Intermezzi Op. 4
Carnaval Op. 9
Kinderszenen Op. 15
Papillons Op. 2
Davidsbundlertanze Op. 6

Thalberg

Souvenirs de Beethoven: Grande Fantasie pour le piano sur la 7th Symphonie de Beethoven Op. 39
Nocturne Op. 28
Canzonette Italienne Op. 36 No. 5
Un Soupir Melodie Variee
Fantasies on Operas by Verdi (La Traviata, Il Trovatore)
Souvenir de Ballo and de Rigoletto
Fantasies of Rossini (L'Assedio di Corinto, Semiramide, La donna del Iago, Il barbiere di Siviglia and Moise)
Fantasies of Bellini (Norma, I Capuletti, Beatrice di Tenda, La Straniera, La Sonnambula)

Some of these guys may seem so obscure but you'd be surprised that they actually have some good music. Alkan, Thalberg and Rubinstein for instance are all underrated. Not to mention almost all of Liszt's works which prove to be an incredible fountain of piano music. Also, I highly stress my Brahms collection of the Four Hand Arrangements. It may surprise you, but I actually became familiar with Brahms' works EXCLUSIVELY through Naxos' Four Hand Arrangement series. That is, I first became acquainted with the symphonies, string quartets, german requiem, et al through this series. It's an interesting journey to familiarize the music on piano and then hear its orchestral form.

[bignaf]

sorry tou wasted so much money on Liszt.
you don't have any of Brahms' realy piano music!
very impressive niche collection.

[Selma in Sandy Eggo]

You lot are making me depressed. My collection, such as it is, consists largely of things that I heard on the radio and that made me say "Ooohhh! I like that!". The radio in question is very often b.com because I can check what the name of the Ooohhh is, and there's even a click button lately, that connects me to Amazon. Amazon is my buddy. My taste also seems to run to lighter music, with a strong melody and I like lots of brass.

I have the Denver Brass's bagpipe CD. The Davy Crockett fiddle CD. (barfle gets my thanks for this, he introduced it to all of us!) Shos's jazz suites rock! and I have several performances of them. Ballet music! Opera Babes. Medieaval Baebes! Bizet's melodies are wonderful, I enuoy Vivaldi's vocal stuff beyond belief and usually attempt to sing along, Verdi is another melody-master that I love.

Wagner needs an editor. I'll stick to the highlights, thankyouverymuch. Likewise much of the larger serious symphonic works. Yawn.

Aha! That's what it is! I'm blessed with a light mind!

[barfle]

These days I tend to pick up either bargains in hock shops or library sales, or something that looks like it could exercise some of the nifty decoding toys I own (dbx and various quad formats). In the process I occasionally find something nifty, which is exactly the way I discovered the DuRufle requiem.

[bignaf]

Aha! That's what it is! I'm blessed with a light mind!

all that helium you inhale..

[Selma in Sandy Eggo]

Aha! That's what it is! I'm blessed with a light mind!

all that helium you inhale..

Explains the whole soprano thing, too.

<note to self: he may know us too well. we might need to do something about that. Where's Yale? Can we find it among all those dratted trees?>

[Catmando]

Good collection, Catmando. Your Beethoven is impeccable! However... where is your Liszt!?

Your Chopin is lacking too...

Wow, quite the Liszt there Hex! And that is just your Romantic period piano music!

I'm not familiar enough with Liszt's work yet. I only have a few selections on the mixed compilation CD's I have.

Totally agree with you that my Chopin is lacking. I'm working on that. *ig can attest to that. I plan on getting his noctures, etudes, preludes and sonatas next (not necessarily in that order).

I also want Night on Bare Mountain and Pictures at an Exhibition by Mussorgsky.

I noticed that you do not have Brahms Piano Concerto # 2.

[bignaf]

Aha! That's what it is! I'm blessed with a light mind!

all that helium you inhale..

Explains the whole soprano thing, too.

<note to self: he may know us too well. we might need to do something about that. Where's Yale? Can we find it among all those dratted trees?>

since Yale owns the current president, who owns homeland security, which owns all the personal information of all dangerous people like yourself, everyone in Yale can know everything about you.

[Selma in Sandy Eggo]

Aha! That's what it is! I'm blessed with a light mind!

all that helium you inhale..

Explains the whole soprano thing, too.

<note to self: he may know us too well. we might need to do something about that. Where's Yale? Can we find it among all those dratted trees?>

since Yale owns the current president, who owns homeland security, which owns all the personal information of all dangerous people like yourself, everyone in Yale can know everything about you.

Ah, yes. All of that is quite true. But you've forgotton that the DoD invented the filing system, and only we loggies know how to use the index!

Homeland Security may know everything, but their indexing project is still out for bid.

[Shapley]

since Yale owns the current president...

Yale is an oil company? I thought they just made locks....

[Catmando]

Thanks.

Wow! The Complete Beethoven Editon. I wonder how many here, if any, have the complete set.

I don't know. I think that one is Vol. 7. I believe that DG complete Beethoven works edition is 20 Volumes in total !

The Volume 7 Violin Sonatas is the only one I have from this the DG set.

Keep in mind, this is a 20 Volume Collection. Not a 20 CD collection. Each volume contains multiple CD's. Some probably have about 10 CD's in each.

The 20 Volume Complete DG set has 87 CD's total.