How many versions do you have?


Dear fellow music lovers,
I was just flicking through my classical cd collection the other morning looking for something to play, every so often I would come across Vivaldi's 4 Seasons, so I thought I would pull them all out and count them, well I have 8 versions (actually 7 really as I have a duplicate), they are;

1.Mutter DG
2.Quintessence label
3.Roberto Michelucci- Phillips (x2)
4.Classical Treasures
5.Jean Pierre Rampal-Sony
6.Nigel Kennedy- EMI
7.Hogwood- L'oiseau-Lyre

What duplicates do you have in your collection?, being audiophiles who I presume would prefer an original cd rather than a burned copy so no burned copies to be included.
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Showing 1 response by t_bone

Same as Kal...
Several versions of Erik Satie's Gymnopedies/etc...
7-10 versions of Bach's unaccompanied cello suites, among my favorite being one played by Edgar Meyer on the double bass.
3-4 versions of Holst's Planets (my "go to version" being Mehta/LA on Decca)
Several versions of Chopin's Preludes - haven't figured out, even after 20-25 years of listening to and playing these, which one is my go-to version.
Several versions of Rachmaninoff piano trios.
Lots of versions of several or all Beethoven Symphonies
And I have seem, without trying, to have come up with a bunch of versions of Dvorak's 'New World' Symphony, a couple of Mahler symphonies,

and, last but not least... I must have a dozen different recordings of Jimmy Smith playing "The Sermon".