If you could only have one label for the rest of your life

For reasons I can't explain, I organize my music by record label, with the exceptions of Bruckner, chamber, and piano CDs. LPs are all organized by label. [how do you organize your records?]

Which led me to this question:

Which label would you pick if you could only have one for the rest of your life?

BMG, Decca/London, EMI, Sony/Phillips, CBS, can't forget DG, Hyperion, oh, this would be a tough choice. Audiophile labels like Classic Records, MFSL...

I probably own more DG than anything else.

I'm not certain of the answer to my own question: if asked at gunpoint, I think I'd say London/Decca.

But that would leave me without Du Pre's Elgar (EMI) or Gendron's stately Bach suites (Phillips), not to mention Walter's Bruckner 9 on CBS/Sony!

Hmm. That's like only buying books from one publisher . . .:scratch:

I'd find it impossible to say, because no one label would cater for my tastes.

But if pushed :eek: :eek: it'd be Blue Note for their classic jazz, or World Circuit for their fantastic Afro-Cuban fare. :D

Could I really live without Vaughan Williams, Walton, Finzi, Bax, Moeran etc.? er, :no:

Edit: of course there's always Lyrita ! :)

Easy for me, 4AD

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Originally Posted by JJack

I organize my music by record label

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Seriously? That would be like finding books used to be in the old Foyles (all sorted by publisher).

If I had to have one label, it would be Decca.

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Originally Posted by MartinT

Seriously? That would be like finding books used to be in the old Foyles (all sorted by publisher).

If I had to have one label, it would be Decca.

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I can't explain it. Instead of "Beethoven 6, Klemperer" I think "EMI"

I guess it must make for nice blocks of colour on the shelves :lol:

I organize by composer then type of work (alphabetically) then chronologically.

Which label is an impossibility for me. If someone put a gun to my head and told me to choose, I think I would convulse uncontrollably and drop to the floor in a heap. There's just too much good stuff out there. Take DG/Archiv; but, not RCA Red Seal or Columbia Masterworks. Take London/Decca; but, not Angel. Nope. I think I feel my eye starting to twitch. :)

Nick, you made the same mistake as me :eyebrows: This is about classical music, it's the second time I have messed up & had to delete a post...

Too confusing & I was sober to :D

Good lord! Thanks for the tip Mark. I need to do some tidying up :whistle:

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