CD Collectors?

[decadent]

How many classical piano CDs do you own?
Any serious CD collectors here?

The last time I counted, I had 2014 CDs, i started collecting 6 years ago.

[BoliverAllmon]

at a point it becomes an obsession I think and you are there.

boliver

[SteinwayTony]

Anybody with 2,000 CDs wouldn't be called a collector, but a horder.  A collector is picky about what he owns and doesn't simply keep every disappointment that passes through his hands.  2,000 CDs is unsightly, unsensible, and physically impossible to appreciate.

[hodi]

i have about 20 cd's and a collection of mendelssohn masterworks which is 40 cd's so about 60 cd's
i buy a cd once in two months approxmiatly..

[xvimbi]

Anybody with 2,000 CDs wouldn't be called a collector, but a horder.  A collector is picky about what he owns and doesn't simply keep every disappointment that passes through his hands.  2,000 CDs is unsightly, unsensible, and physically impossible to appreciate.

I don't think that's necessarily the case. I have about 1,000 CD's, and I have full command over them. Sure, there are some I rarely, if ever, listen too, but most of them I have heard many times over. My taste in music is fairly narrow: a lot of classical, quite some Jazz, Rock, and a handful of less common things. But they are all quite standard CD's, like the "greatest hits" collections or main CD's of various groups. Now, if I started to listen more to Opera and chamber music, I would probably have to add another 1,000 to just have the standard works. If I went into depth with Jazz, that would make another 1,000. I have no Rap, little New Age, no Country, no Chrisitian Rock, no Hip-Hop, little Blues, little Folk, little Gospel, little Latin, little soundtracks, and few World Music. That would easily make another 2,000 just to cover basic grounds. I don't think 2,000 is an unreasonable number at all.

[steinwaymodeld]

I never counted how much recordings I have
I bought a lot of CDs.
I have around 300GB of piano materials (recording/video/scores)

Some I listen to all the time, Horowitz, Gilels, Katsaris, Petrov, Cziffra, Fiorentino...

Some I rarely listen to again, like Brendel, Brendel and Brendel, quite a few Kissin.

But I at least listen to them several times at least.

[decadent]

Anybody with 2,000 CDs wouldn't be called a collector, but a horder.  A collector is picky about what he owns and doesn't simply keep every disappointment that passes through his hands.  2,000 CDs is unsightly, unsensible, and physically impossible to appreciate.

this is by no means a retaliation on your comment, so i hope no offence will be taken, but just some thoughts..

yes, like someone commented, its almost an obsession, but isn't music an obsession to serious musicians?

do you really think there aren't 2000 CDs on the market today that's worth listening to? I do a lot of research before I purchase every CD I own.  I confess, I do not enjoy every single one of them with equal amount of pleasure (a matter of taste), but I do enjoy getting to know a pianist's playing, and often discover works which I have never heard before.  And as a library, I think its invaluble for myself as a pianist and my students.

I have discovered many relative unknown pianists and pieces that I think are undeservedly negelcted through "hording" CDs.  A collector? a horder? i dont mind what the name is.  2000 CDs are not unsightly if you keep it tidy; definitely sensible; and because I have 2000 CDs, I can appreciate more music than someone who does not.  Like youself maybe?

[joell12068]

How many classical piano CDs do you own?
Any serious CD collectors here?

The last time I counted, I had 2014 CDs, i started collecting 6 years ago.

Wow !!!

 2014 / 6 = 335.  That's the equivalent of getting a new CD every day eleven out of 12 months a year.  Did you actually buy them all yourself? 

[thalbergmad]

Only 1042 CD's. 160,000 sheets of classical piano music.