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In Reply to: RE: LOL. Only 10..........so far. But wait, more inmates may reply and the list will get longer. posted by Rick W on April 13, 2017 at 08:11:41
We're all like blind men trying to describe an elephant based on what part of the animal they've touched (or, in our case, the subset of recordings of a given work we've actually heard!). As I've mentioned before, the closest I've come to hearing every available recording of a given standard repertoire work is with the Mahler Fifth, where I have (or have had) over 80 different recordings - but even in this work, I think that number represents only about half the total recordings that have been issued. And the more recordings of a given work I've heard, the less I've become convinced that there even is such a thing as "the best" one. Sure, I've got some favorites, but that's not the same, since each person's criteria include so many personal, subjective elements.
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either you desperately need me to send you a shipment of drugs or I desperately need the drugs you ingest.
Holy Gustav, JHC, OMG and a screaming Yowza!!!
. . . more recordings of other individual works than I do of the Mahler Fifth - I'm thinking of Amphissa perhaps with certain works of Rachmaninoff, and there was one poster a few years ago who, I think, mentioned that he had over a hundred recordings of the Sibelius Second Symphony!
As for all my recordings of the Mahler Fifth, I was actually encouraged in this pursuit by my wife, who was on a quest for the perfect recording of that work (at least for her!), and she finally decided on a recording on the Acousence label by Jonathan Darling and the Duisberg Philharmonic. It's interesting that she ended up choosing an audiophile (2-channel) recording, even though she professes not to care about audiophile matters at all! ;-)
All I can say is........
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