Your music collection? Example (importance) of interpretation?

Well,my collection is much of violin music( for it's my favored instrument since more than 28 Years).I like the 24 Caprices of

Niccolo Paganini very much and have many different Artists Recordings like with Salvatore Accardo,Itzack Perlman,Ulf Hoelscher

Ilya Kaler(not so good) and my most favored is a Mono-Recording

from 5th-9th of September 1958 and the Artist is Michael Rabin,who

unfortunately died very early at the age of 36(just like Mozart).He plays

the caprices so as if it is great fun and the easiest thing to do so.So

thats my tribute to your question.Have a nice x-mas time.Regards from

Heidelberg/Germany.Stefan K.

That would be Mussorgsky's Pictures at an Exhibition. I have over 3,000 classical recordings in total.

I also think it is a good piece to use to introduce technical and interpretive discussion.

Edit- As far as chamber and solo it would be the Beethoven Piano Sonatas. Pathetique, Moonlight and Appasionata. I have around 7 of each of those in various combinations. Chamber would have to be Beethoven Piano trios.

The most I have is The Planets by Holst.

They are Holst conducting in a 1926 recording.

Leopold Stokowski in a 1944 recording.

A 1971 recording - can't remember who conducts.

A 1978 recording with Sir George Solti.