If you listen to a piece on Classical WETA and want to buy the recording, you can do so by clicking on the provided link on the playlist. The link takes you to the website ArkivMusic.com. Here you will find Naxos recordings as well as recordings from many other (both major and minor) classical music labels. The website contains an impressive number of recordings - close to 10 times what Naxos alone offers, including recordings by famous artists.
It occurred to me that ArkivMusic might serve as a better source of data for a list of composers ranked by number of recordings in a large classical music catalog (see Composers). It turns out my intuition was correct. The following list of rankings seems far more accurate as a measure of composers' legacies. Grieg and Strauss II, to give only two examples, are closer to where I believe they should be on the list.
As before, I chose to include a composer only if that composer's number of recordings was within one order of magnitude of the #1 composer's total. This time, that approach left exactly 50 composers. (Sorry Bruckner, but someone had to be #51.) So, without further ado...
Composers' legacies, as measured by number of recordings appearing at ArkivMusic.com:
- Mozart 6,168
- Bach 5,519
- Beethoven 4,606
- Brahms 3,184
- Schubert 3,137
- Verdi 3,054
- Tchaikovsky 2,793
- Handel 2,370
- Schumann 2,170
- Mendelssohn 2,116
- Wagner 2,052
- Debussy 1,975
- Chopin 1,944
- Puccini 1,923
- Haydn 1,796
- Liszt 1,750
- Vivaldi 1,686
- Dvorak 1,612
- Ravel 1,587
- Rossini 1,579
- Rachmaninov 1,511
- Strauss 1,506
- Bizet 1,398
- Saint-Saens 1,323
- Donizetti 1,273
- Prokofiev 1,199
- Gounod 1,173
- Shostakovich 1,140
- Faure 1,131
- Massenet 1,108
- Grieg 1,025
- Mahler 984
- Elgar 917
- Stravinsky 878
- Strauss II 850
- Berlioz 764
- Bellini 742
- Britten 740
- Sibelius 740
- Vaughan Williams 734
- Rimsky-Korsakov 732
- Franck 730
- Mussorgsky 707
- Gershwin 701
- Bartok 693
- Weber 675
- Telemann 666
- Purcell 666
- Leoncavallo 629
- Mascagni 627
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