Your Desert Island Discs

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DavidRoss

#100
April 01, 2009, 07:46:40 AM
Quote from: bhodges on April 01, 2009, 07:27:23 AM
Now that is one beautifully balanced list.  Love it that the Stockhausen made it (a fantastic recording).
I thought so, too...interestingly eclectic.  Hillier's Stimmung must be pretty good if you'd want to hear it over and over again.  (Of course, inclusion of box sets means it wouldn't necessarily be in heavy rotation.  ;) )
"Maybe the problem most of you have ... is that you're not listening to Barbirolli." ~Sarge

"The problem with socialism is that sooner or later you run out of other people's money." ~Margaret Thatcher

Guido

#101
April 01, 2009, 09:16:46 AM
I've just been clicking through past choices on the actual desert island discs radio4 shows - there's a heartening amount of classical music on there from the people interviewed.

The fantastic illustrator, Quentin Blake, had particularly good taste I felt:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/factual/desertislanddiscs_20061001.shtml
Geologist.

The large print giveth, and the small print taketh away

Bogey

#102
April 01, 2009, 09:24:25 AM
And I guess that Simon enjoys his own 9th.
There will never be another era like the Golden Age of Hollywood.  We didn't know how to blow up buildings then so we had no choice but to tell great stories with great characters.-Ben Mankiewicz

DavidRoss

#103
April 01, 2009, 09:38:07 AM
Quote from: Guido on April 01, 2009, 09:16:46 AM
The fantastic illustrator, Quentin Blake, had particularly good taste I felt:
I Heard It Through the Grapevine--Marvin Gaye--a different sort of classic.
"Maybe the problem most of you have ... is that you're not listening to Barbirolli." ~Sarge

"The problem with socialism is that sooner or later you run out of other people's money." ~Margaret Thatcher

vandermolen

#104
April 03, 2009, 03:04:01 PM
Quote from: Dundonnell on March 31, 2009, 02:51:52 PM
Do you realise what you have started, Jeffrey?

There has been an outbreak of desert-islanding all over the forum ;D

Yes I do Colin  ;)

I think that the 'official rules' are 8 pieces of music and one 'other item' - I think I would choose the 'Compleet Molesworth' by Willans and Searle.
"Courage is going from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm" (Churchill).

'The test of a work of art is, in the end, our affection for it, not our ability to explain why it is good' (Stanley Kubrick).

Dundonnell

#105
April 03, 2009, 04:10:36 PM
Quote from: vandermolen on April 03, 2009, 03:04:01 PM
Yes I do Colin  ;)

I think that the 'official rules' are 8 pieces of music and one 'other item' - I think I would choose the 'Compleet Molesworth' by Willans and Searle.

Never heard of it until tonight ::)

I suppose that it would just have to be 'Lord of the Rings' for me ;D

Haffner

#106
April 03, 2009, 04:56:45 PM Last Edit: April 03, 2009, 04:59:55 PM by AndyD.
Wagner Ring Des Nibelungen (Solti)
Beethoven String Quartets op.59, 1 and 3, Quartetto Serioso, and op. 132 (Borodin SQ)
Wagner Orchestral Highlights (Solti)
Verdi La Traviata (Giulini, Gheorghiu)
Verdi Otello (Levine/Domingo/Fleming)
Mozart String Duos and Trios (Grimiaux)
Mozart Don Giovanni (Furtwangler/Siepi)
Beethoven 9th 1942 (Furtwangler)
Beethoven Complete Symphonies (Karajan/1962)
Mozart Requiem (Marriner)
Mozart Cosi Fan Tutte (Muti)
Wagner Tristan und Isolde (Kleiber, latter version)
Wagner Die Walkure (Karajan)
Wagner Parsifal (Kubelik and Karajan renditions)
Shostakovich String Quartets (Fitzwilliam)
Mahler 9th (Bernstein, Abbado)
Mahler 6th (Barbirolli, Karajan)
Sibelius 7th (Maazel)
Schumann Cello Concerto (Du Pre)
Joseph Haydn opps. 20, 64, and 76  (Quatuor Mosaiques) opps. 76, and 77 (Kodaly), opps. 54 and 74 (Endellion)
Beethoven Complete String Quartets (Vegh)
Wagner Lohengrin (Solti, Kempe)
Strauss Complete Orchestral Works (Kempe)
Strauss Die Alpensinfonie (Karajan)
Bruckner Symphony no. 9 (Giulini, Celibidache, and '70's Karajan)
Complete Bruckner Symphonies (Karajan)
Bruckner Symphony no. 7 (Tintner, Celibidache)
Bruckner Symphony no. 8 ('70's Karajan, Furtwangler)
Bruckner "Nullte", 01, 02, 03 (Tintner)
Wagner Die Meistersinger Von Nurnberg (Karajan, Stein)
DeBussy Pelleas et Melisande (Karajan)
Bach Well Tempered (Gould)
Bach Brandenburg Concertos (Pinnock)
Beethoven Missa Solemnis (Gardiner, Klemperer)
Mozart Symphonies no.s 35-41 (Karajan)
Mozart Symphonies no. 25 (Marriner)
Mozart Symphony no. 41 (Bernstein)
Wagner Der Fliegende Hollander (Sawallisch)


I'm forgetting a bunch I'm sure.

Dundonnell

#107
April 03, 2009, 05:15:47 PM
Quote from: AndyD. on April 03, 2009, 04:56:45 PM
Wagner Ring Des Nibelungen (Solti)
Beethoven String Quartets op.59, 1 and 3, Quartetto Serioso, and op. 132 (Borodin SQ)
Wagner Orchestral Highlights (Solti)
Verdi La Traviata (Giulini, Gheorghiu)
Verdi Otello (Levine/Domingo/Fleming)
Mozart String Duos and Trios (Grimiaux)
Mozart Don Giovanni (Furtwangler/Siepi)
Beethoven 9th 1942 (Furtwangler)
Beethoven Complete Symphonies (Karajan/1962)
Mozart Requiem (Marriner)
Mozart Cosi Fan Tutte (Muti)
Wagner Tristan und Isolde (Kleiber, latter version)
Wagner Die Walkure (Karajan)
Wagner Parsifal (Kubelik and Karajan renditions)
Shostakovich String Quartets (Fitzwilliam)
Mahler 9th (Bernstein, Abbado)
Mahler 6th (Barbirolli, Karajan)
Sibelius 7th (Maazel)
Schumann Cello Concerto (Du Pre)
Joseph Haydn opps. 20, 64, and 76  (Quatuor Mosaiques) opps. 76, and 77 (Kodaly), opps. 54 and 74 (Endellion)
Beethoven Complete String Quartets (Vegh)
Wagner Lohengrin (Solti, Kempe)
Strauss Complete Orchestral Works (Kempe)
Strauss Die Alpensinfonie (Karajan)
Bruckner Symphony no. 9 (Giulini, Celibidache, and '70's Karajan)
Complete Bruckner Symphonies (Karajan)
Bruckner Symphony no. 7 (Tintner, Celibidache)
Bruckner Symphony no. 8 ('70's Karajan, Furtwangler)
Bruckner "Nullte", 01, 02, 03 (Tintner)
Wagner Die Meistersinger Von Nurnberg (Karajan, Stein)
DeBussy Pelleas et Melisande (Karajan)
Bach Well Tempered (Gould)
Bach Brandenburg Concertos (Pinnock)
Beethoven Missa Solemnis (Gardiner, Klemperer)
Mozart Symphonies no.s 35-41 (Karajan)
Mozart Symphonies no. 25 (Marriner)
Mozart Symphony no. 41 (Bernstein)
Wagner Der Fliegende Hollander (Sawallisch)


I'm forgetting a bunch I'm sure.

I don't think that Australia counts as a desert island ;D ;D

rubio

#108
April 04, 2009, 06:59:58 AM
My picks at this moment :).

             
"One good thing about music, when it hits- you feel no pain" Bob Marley

George

#109
April 04, 2009, 07:06:55 AM
Didn't know you loved that Pires Schubert set as much as me!

You have a few PMs.  :)

rubio

#110
April 04, 2009, 07:12:04 AM
Quote from: George on April 04, 2009, 07:06:55 AM
Didn't know you loved that Pires Schubert set as much as me!

You have a few PMs.  :)

Well, I love these Impromptus and the pieces in general. I think you recommended them to me :). But I rate Brendel and Edwin Fischer kind of at the same level.
"One good thing about music, when it hits- you feel no pain" Bob Marley

George

#111
April 04, 2009, 07:13:55 AM
Quote from: rubio on April 04, 2009, 07:12:04 AM
Well, I love these Impromptus and the pieces in general. I think you recommended them to me :). But I rate Brendel and Edwin Fischer kind of at the same level.

I think it's a combination of sound and performance for me with the Pires set. Absolutely gorgeous! 

prémont

#112
April 04, 2009, 07:57:29 AM
Quote from: AndyD. on April 03, 2009, 04:56:45 PM
Wagner Ring Des Nibelungen (Solti)
Beethoven String Quartets op.59, 1 and 3, Quartetto Serioso, and op. 132 (Borodin SQ)
Wagner Orchestral Highlights (Solti)
Verdi La Traviata (Giulini, Gheorghiu)
Verdi Otello (Levine/Domingo/Fleming)
Mozart String Duos and Trios (Grimiaux)
Mozart Don Giovanni (Furtwangler/Siepi)
Beethoven 9th 1942 (Furtwangler)
Beethoven Complete Symphonies (Karajan/1962)
Mozart Requiem (Marriner)
Mozart Cosi Fan Tutte (Muti)
Wagner Tristan und Isolde (Kleiber, latter version)
Wagner Die Walkure (Karajan)
Wagner Parsifal (Kubelik and Karajan renditions)
Shostakovich String Quartets (Fitzwilliam)
Mahler 9th (Bernstein, Abbado)
Mahler 6th (Barbirolli, Karajan)
Sibelius 7th (Maazel)
Schumann Cello Concerto (Du Pre)
Joseph Haydn opps. 20, 64, and 76  (Quatuor Mosaiques) opps. 76, and 77 (Kodaly), opps. 54 and 74 (Endellion)
Beethoven Complete String Quartets (Vegh)
Wagner Lohengrin (Solti, Kempe)
Strauss Complete Orchestral Works (Kempe)
Strauss Die Alpensinfonie (Karajan)
Bruckner Symphony no. 9 (Giulini, Celibidache, and '70's Karajan)
Complete Bruckner Symphonies (Karajan)
Bruckner Symphony no. 7 (Tintner, Celibidache)
Bruckner Symphony no. 8 ('70's Karajan, Furtwangler)
Bruckner "Nullte", 01, 02, 03 (Tintner)
Wagner Die Meistersinger Von Nurnberg (Karajan, Stein)
DeBussy Pelleas et Melisande (Karajan)
Bach Well Tempered (Gould)
Bach Brandenburg Concertos (Pinnock)
Beethoven Missa Solemnis (Gardiner, Klemperer)
Mozart Symphonies no.s 35-41 (Karajan)
Mozart Symphonies no. 25 (Marriner)
Mozart Symphony no. 41 (Bernstein)
Wagner Der Fliegende Hollander (Sawallisch)


I'm forgetting a bunch I'm sure.

Fortunately there are a lot of desert islands. ;D
Reality trumps our fantasy far beyond imagination.

Henk

#113
June 20, 2009, 03:52:36 PM
NO ONE mentioned Handel. :o It's a bloody shame.

DavidRoss

#114
June 20, 2009, 04:38:27 PM
Quote from: Henk on June 20, 2009, 03:52:36 PM
NO ONE mentioned Handel. :o It's a bloody shame.
If you like Handel that much then I doubt anyone will stand in your way should you include him in your desert island survival kit.  :)
"Maybe the problem most of you have ... is that you're not listening to Barbirolli." ~Sarge

"The problem with socialism is that sooner or later you run out of other people's money." ~Margaret Thatcher

Drasko

#115
June 21, 2009, 03:51:15 AM
This' difficult. Barely made it down to dozen.




George

#116
June 21, 2009, 03:55:54 AM
Quote from: Drasko on June 21, 2009, 03:51:15 AM
This' difficult. Barely made it down to dozen.


I have his Schumann in the 3 Biddulph issues. Excellent stuff!

What's the repertoire and transfer engineer for that Pearl release?

Drasko

#117
June 21, 2009, 04:28:01 AM
Kreisleriana, Davidsbundlertanze and Carnaval. Seth Winner.

George

#118
June 21, 2009, 05:20:28 AM
Quote from: Drasko on June 21, 2009, 04:28:01 AM
Kreisleriana, Davidsbundlertanze and Carnaval. Seth Winner.

Thanks.

not edward

#119
June 21, 2009, 06:48:58 AM Last Edit: June 21, 2009, 08:53:04 AM by Que
I guess this will do for a first iteration. Too much orchestral, not enough chamber, though.

"I don't at all mind actively disliking a piece of contemporary music, but in order to feel happy about it I must consciously understand why I dislike it. Otherwise it remains in my mind as unfinished business."
-- Aaron Copland, The Pleasures of Music
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