Your Desert Island Discs

[vandermolen]

I have often wondered what I will choose as my eight desert island CDs when, as an international celebrity, I am invited to appear on the radio programme of the same name. So here is your chance to do the same (maximum eight):

1 Moeran Symphony (Boult or Dilkes)

2 Vaughan Williams Symphony No 6 (Boult 1950s Decca recording)

3 Miaskovsky Symphony No 6 (Kondrashin)

4 Braga Santos Symphony No 4 (Marco Polo)

5 Tubin Symphony No 4 (Jarvi)

6 Copland Symphony No 3 (Slatkin)

7 Shostakovich Symphony No 4 (Kondrashin)

8 Bruckner Symphony 9 (Furtwangler)

[Dr. Dread]

Box sets? Double/triple disc sets...?

[Todd]

Box sets? Double/triple disc sets...?

Indeed.  Especially for Wagner fans.

[Dundonnell]

1. Havergal Brian 'Gothic Symphony'(No.1) (Marco Polo/Lenard)
2. Bruckner Symphony No.9 (Warner/Barenboim)
3. Brahms Symphony No.4 (DGG/C.Kleiber)
4. Vaughan Williams 'London Symphony'(No.2) (Chandos/Hickox)
5. Mussorgsky 'Pictures at an Exhibition'(DGG/von Karajan)
6. Rubbra Symphony No.4(Chandos/Hickox)
7. Mahler Symphony No. 2 'Resurrection'(EMI/Rattle)
8. Richard Strauss Four Last Songs(EMI/Schwarzkopf/Szell)

......but- no Sibelius, Nielsen, Holst, Shostakovich....sobs

[Brian]

I would burn six of the eight CDs to choose my own programs.   This is probably cheating  
Post author reserves right to change his choices later!
Especially if it is ruled that his choice to burn CDs rather than choosing pre-existing ones is cheating!

CD1
Barber - Adagio for Strings - Royal Scottish/Alsop
Brahms - Symphony No 4 - VPO/Kleiber
Strauss - Metamorphosen - WDR/Bychkov

CD2
Beethoven - Egmont Overture - Swedish CO/Dausgaard
Beethoven - Symphony No 4 - AAM/Hogwood
Beethoven - Symphony No 7 - BPO/Karajan/62

CD3
Bax - Tintagel - Royal Scottish/Lloyd-Jones
Janacek - Sinfonietta - CzPo/Ancerl
Janacek - Glagolitic Mass - CzPo/Ancerl

CD4
Dvorak - Cello Concerto - Fournier/BPO/Szell
Dvorak - Symphony No 8 - Staatskapelle Berlin/Suitner

CD5
[This wouldn't be a burned CD. It would be the Naxos release of Heifetz playing Sibelius, Tchaikovsky and Wieniawski Violin Concertos recorded in the 1930s.]

CD6
[This wouldn't be a burned CD either. It would be Bruckner's Seventh played by the Staatskapelle Dresden under Herbert Blomstedt, on Denon.]

CD7
Scriabin - Etude Op 8 No 12 - Yevgeny Sudbin
Chopin - Ballade No 2 - Maurizio Pollini (DG new release) [or maybe someone else]
Chopin - Ballade No 1 - Artur Rubinstein (RCA stereo)
Chopin - Ballade No 4 - Istvan Szekely
Chopin - a smattering of waltzes and mazurkas (probably 3 w's and 2 m's) - Ivan Moravec
Chopin - Scherzo No 1 - Kemal Gekic
Chopin - Nocturne Op 27 No 2 - Michele Boegner
Scriabin - a couple mazurkas - Yevgeny Sudbin
Chopin - Ballade No 4 - Ivan Moravec (live Vox recording)
Chopin - Nocturne Op Posth in C sharp minor - Wladyslaw Szpilman (1946)

CD8 [the "whatever I was forgetting about earlier" CD]
Mendelssohn - Octet - Kodaly/Auer Quartets
Smetana - The Moldau - PNRSO/Wit
Sibelius - Symphony No 5 - I don't know which performers. Haven't found "That Recording" yet.

[Bulldog]

1.  Bach's WTC - Tureck/DG
2.  Shostakovich Op. 87 Preludes and Fugues - Nikolayeva/Melodiya
3.  Beethoven's Late Piano Sonatas - Pollini/DG
4.  Mozart's Great Mass in C minor - Leppard/EMI
5.  Handel's Eight Great Keyboard Sonatas - Ross/Erato
6.  Bach's Goldberg Variations - Tureck/DG
7.  Bach's French Suites - Curtis/Teldec/Apex
8.  Miaskovsky/Weinberg - Violin Concertos/Naxos

[Dundonnell]

Brian-

"This is probably cheating"?  Probably You must be joking

[Brian]

Brian-

"This is probably cheating"?  Probably You must be joking

This is absolutely cheating... 

[Bulldog]

Brian:

I guess you figure that you'll have plenty of time to prepare your recordings.  If time is limited, you'll end up with next to nothing on your island (and no Sibelius 5th).

[Jay F]

[Bulldog]

Big classical fan?

[Brian]

Brian:

I guess you figure that you'll have plenty of time to prepare your recordings.  If time is limited, you'll end up with next to nothing on your island (and no Sibelius 5th).

Well okay, I'll retry. If the tyrant placing me on the island gives me no time to spare, I will grab these eight actual CDs:
Ivan Moravec Plays Chopin (Vox live recital)
Beethoven - 5 and 7 - Carlos Kleiber, VPO
Beethoven - Last Three Sonatas - Paul Komen, fortepiano
The aforementioned Heifetz album
The Janacek Glagolitic Mass (Ancerl, CzPo)
Dvorak's Cello Concerto (Queyras - it has a better coupling)
"Great Conductors of the Century: Eugene Ormandy" (2 CD set but notice I have only listed 7 so no chance of cheating here...)

If I'm allowed an 8th, it would be the aforementioned Bruckner album.

[Jay F]

Big classical fan?

I like Mahler.

If it's all classical, then

[jhar26]

I like Mahler.

And Linda Ronstadt, which is nice to see. 

[bhodges]

List now edited so that it is only 8 discs:

Prokofiev : Symphony No. 3, Varèse: Arcana, Mosolov: Iron Foundry – Chailly/RCOA (Decca)
Bruckner: Symphony No. 8 – Chailly/RCOA (Decca)
Arias & Scenes (Puccini, R. Strauss, Wagner, Janáček, Lehar): Karita Mattila (Erato)
Debussy: La Mer, Nocturnes, Jeux, Rhapsodie pour clarinette et orchestre - Boulez/Cleveland (DG)
Rachmaninov: Symphonic Dances, Isle of the Dead – Ashkenazy/RCOA (Decca)
Mahler: Symphony No. 5 – Chailly/RCOA (Decca)
String Quartets by Bartók, Gubaidulina and Schnittke – Arditti Quartet (Gramavision)
Bartók: Bluebeard's Castle – Haitink/BPO/Von Otter/Tomlinson (EMI)

--Bruce

[Dr. Dread]

The complete Beethoven
The complete Schubert
The complete Bach
The complete Chopin
The complete Brahms
The complete Purcell
The complete Haydn
The complete Mozart

[Jay F]

And Linda Ronstadt, which is nice to see. 

Oh, I do like Linda. Very, very much.

[Bulldog]

I like Mahler.

If it's all classical, then

It's great that you picked the first Herreweghe St. Matthew Passion; I neglected it.

[Todd]

The complete Haydn

Alas, no such beast yet exists.

[Jay F]

It's great that you picked the first Herreweghe St. Matthew Passion; I neglected it.

If you're good, you can come to my side of the island.