Reply To: Different versions of the same work?
It should also be noted that having multiple recordings of the same work (which is not unusual in classical music collections) is of course a luxury that comes with time. When I started to collect music, I avoided doubling up on recordings; I mean, I had limited financial funds, and there was so much music out there… not much point in getting multiple copies of Beethoven’s 9th Symphony if you don’t even have the others yet.
But nowadays… it’s like in the thread “How Complete is your Music Collection“, I have pretty much (with perhaps very few exceptions) all the film scores I ever wanted, and all the classical recordings I strived to have in my younger years…
So while I still discover new music, I find I have still much to discover in the works I have, and listen to various version of it. For example, I love Bach’s “Well Tempered Clavier”, and I love listening to different versions of it, I’m wowed by how different the very same music can make you think and feel when interpreters as varied as Daniel Barenboim, Keith Jarrett, and Angela Hewitt (just three examples of the recordings I have) perform it.