Do you play the same records over and over again?

Of course you are right!  He recorded many of the others - wonderfully but it is Solti & the CSO. 81 year old brain fart.  I find Levine's Mahler 3 with the CSO particularly excellent.

I had not heard the Abbado CSO recording, I am streaming the 1976 recording right now.

Thanks

I buy a lot of brand new music, just released right now (as opposed to new records that were published in earlier years/decades). Those I frequently play many times over and over, on average maybe 6 times, but some 20 and more. Yep, a bit OCD. It is in part as I like those a lot, so play the repeatedly, and also to get to know them, discover various aspects of the music.

Those records with which I am familiar I typically only listen to once, when I encounter them again. Just checking in ... 

All my records have been listened to at least once. There are around 20 that get listened to more often, maybe 10 or so that are "perfect" albums that you want to listen to front to back. 

Sadly, will say, that I'm starting to listen to Tidal more, records less. Even purchasing less records now that there over $35 each in my are. 

On my system, some records sound better over Tidal, and some songs on Tidal sound better than my records. It's good to have both. 

mahler123 Listening to the Abbado CSO, the 4th movement with Horne grabbed me, and led me down the rabbit hole of Urlichts!

Through Jessye Norman et al. and finally Kathleen Ferrier.  That of course led me down the Kathleen Ferrier path (after I stopped weeping).  Her Urlicht (and almost everything else she performs) truly moves me to tears, probably a mix of her voice and her early death.

I find myself wishing that she had lived longer, or had lived later, to really hear her voice.  I remember hearing her on my uncle Arthur's gramophone in the early '50s singing "What is life" and "Blow the wind Southerly".

Apologies if this is off topic but mahler123's correction led me to a wonderful, moving, morning! 

I used to and then buy another copy, but with streaming, I’ve only bought 5-6 new records this year.