Classical Music for Aficionados

Rather than start a brand new discussion, I thought I'd ask the classical aficionados here to garner their knowledge and educated guesses.

If I wanted to get recordings of every classical piece ever recorded (not written, but recorded) without duplicates (e.g. just one recording of Beethoven's 5th, one recording of Bach's cello suites), about how many CDs would it take?  For simplicity, let's limit it to western classical music, from early music to contemporary.  According to the Bach 333 project, it took 225 CDs to present every piece composed by Bach (but including some duplicate recordings of the same piece).  If someone as prolific as Bach can be covered in ~200 CDs, I'd think that most can be covered in far less.

Would the average output of a composer be something like 50 CDs?  How many classical music composers have there been who have had their music recorded?  10,000, 20,000, 50,000?

For the sake of agument, let's say 20,000; then 20,000 x 50CDs = 1,000,000.

Do you think 1,000,000 CDs would be enough to have a complete set of every piece of classical music ever recorded?  Am I grossly underestimating or overestimating?

I apologize for intruding with a non-music post, but I've always been curious about this.

Also, does anyone have a link to a website that might have information related to questions like this?

@skim1124     I hope you realise that this being a thread on all things recorded classical music that none of the contributers here can agree on which CD's to buy in the first place. As an example say you wanted to get a Sibelius Symphony Cycle and you were only limited to one, do you go for a historical one with lesser quality of sound or one of the myriad ones with first class sound but maybe not the visceral excitement of the historical ones. I wish you well in your quest.

Just buy BIS recording of anything and ESPECIALLY any thing from Nordic Lands !
I do believe that I have never run across any serious listener that did not start
with symphonic and eventually wandered into chamber music , save one, myself .

I think my taste is the better for it , but then I've never been anyone else,  so I can't run an experiment .

@jim204 My question isn't about which single version of a piece to get (quality).  I just want to know the quantity of CDs a complete collection would require.  It's not an actual quest since I'd never have the time or the money to be able to actually buy/download such a collection, but I'm simply curious about the number.  Hypothetically, someone would have the funds/time/storage space to have a complete collection and be able to play a recording of any piece of classical music ever composed (if it'd been recorded).

@skim1124    I'm sorry if I misunderstood you but I shall give you one to get on with , Liszt Complete Piano Music  101 discs by Lesley Howard. Although I have this collection I only dip into it if I read about someone playing something obscure of Liszt's. Again apologies.