[Nicolai P. Zwar]

But the question to y’all is: Have you ever attempted a systematic walkthrough of all of your music collection at any point?

Like I said earlier in this thread, I have never attempted a systematic walkthrough to all of my music collection (which would probably take years and wouldn’t really bring me all that much joy), but I do have phases sometimes where I concentrate on a particular aspect of it. For example, about two years ago I dove a lot into Olivier Messiaen’s Turangalila-Symphony, and listened to a lot of different recordings, including my own, and as a result, my personal collection of that piece grew in 2024 from three to seven. So sometimes I dive into one aspect of music, listen to a lot of different recordings of something, and recordings I find particularly striking (and different enough from each other to really shine a different light on something), I consider adding.
Sometimes, I also focus on a certain composer. Last year, I explored Scriabin. I had I think just one album of music, which I really like a lot, but never explored his music in any way, so I wasn’t all that familiar with his work as a whole. But that album, which I had for 25 years, became the starting point of the that exploration, I now have a number of his recordings, including several recordings of all his symphonies.

Right now, I am listening to various recordings of Bach’s Cello Suites, Messiaen’s Quartet for the End of Times.

Sometimes I also focus on a particular film composer, and when I find that a film compose suddenly “klicks” with me, I branch out and seek out more of their film work. Just don’t have a recent example of this at hand.