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Composer | 15 | 88.24% | |
Conductor | 2 | 11.76% | |
Title | 0 | 0% | |
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How Do You Sort Your Classical LP/CD’s Poll
So how does everyone sort their Classical LP/CD’s? I usually do it by conductor followed by title. I’m moving to a new dedicated room and wondering if I should sort by composer.
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Composer here.
Or artist when the album is oriented towards that artist performing for example different composers from the baroque period (e.g. the album 'Sacrificium' from la Bartoli).
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I believe that’s what I’m going to move to.
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I sort mine by composer unless it's a disc/album that is more of an individual effort, like, Yo Yo Ma, Angela Hewitt, Nicola Benedetti, Lang Lang. Those are sorted in alphabetical order.
- Buck
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Similar to Bart and Buck, I sort my vinyl by composer first, then by ensemble, unless there are multiple composers on the same recording. In that case, if it’s a featured performer or conductor, I sort by that. If no featured performer, then I place under V for Various Composers, then by album title. The grand exception to these rules is the Bach family. If the recording is of multiple Bachs, it goes under Bach.
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That issue was a concern until I moved (almost) entirely to file-based playback. All my music is easily searched and accessible by any parameter or combination of parameters. My only physical library is of concert/opera/ballet BluRay discs and they are sorted by composer but there are only a few hundred.
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Thanks to all for the replies. It appears I am the only one so far that sorted by conductor. Not sure why I did it that way but it’s time for a change. It also makes sense to me now.
Thanks again!!
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Bach rules!
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I went through this decision process a few months ago and came down to Compose, Type, Work, Conductor (alphabetic) though I gave some thought to Composer, Type, Conductor, Work
Composer: Sibelius Type: Symphony -Symphony 1 --- Davis --- Karajan --- Maazel -Symphony 2 --- Davis --- Karajan --- Maazel type: Tone Poem -Swan of Tuonella --- Kamu --- Karajan --- Ormandy -Tapiola --- Kamu --- Karajan --- Ormandy etc. When there were multiple composers on an album I tended to group by whomever was predominant or who was side 1 track 1. However I did have a couple groups like "The Russian Five" (Dui, Borodin, Balakirev, Mussorgsky, Rimsky-Korsakov). And I did end up with a category of Unclassified and tried to keep that small. The actually doing was something of a "rebuilding the boat while at sea" riot: |
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