Your Desert Island Discs

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Dr. Dread

#60
March 31, 2009, 06:10:10 AM
Quote from: Dundonnell on March 31, 2009, 06:09:25 AM
vandermolen(Jeffrey), who started this thread, was basing the concept on the long-running(since 1942) BBC Radio programme of the same name. The rules specify eight "pieces of music". The most popular choice over the years from the celebrity guests-who include the past six British Prime Ministers-has been Beethoven's 9th(specifically, the 'Ode to Joy').

NOW you tell us the rules!  ::)

Sergeant Rock

#61
March 31, 2009, 06:10:56 AM
the phone rings and somebody says,
"hey, they made a movie about
Mahler, you ought to go see it.
he was as f*cked-up as you are."
                               --Charles Bukowski, "Mahler"

bwv 1080

#63
March 31, 2009, 06:13:35 AM
Quote from: Sergeant Rock on March 31, 2009, 05:54:37 AM


Emmylou Harris Portraits (3 discs)

Emmylou Harris Cimarron


Sarge, stepping off the pulpit now  ;D

you could always just go with this:



Dundonnell

#64
March 31, 2009, 06:13:47 AM
Quote from: Mn Dave on March 31, 2009, 06:10:10 AM
NOW you tell us the rules!  ::)

Not my thread, Dave ;D Most people had already understood. Only two had been cheating up till now ;D ;D

Dr. Dread

#65
March 31, 2009, 06:15:09 AM
Quote from: Dundonnell on March 31, 2009, 06:13:47 AM
Not my thread, Dave ;D Most people had already understood. Only two had been cheating up till now ;D ;D

Was Sarge right then? 8 discs, no matter number of pieces? Or 8 pieces, no matter the number of discs?

Sergeant Rock

#66
March 31, 2009, 06:15:31 AM
Quote from: Mn Dave on March 31, 2009, 06:11:42 AM
Well, Colin says different!!!

Well Jeffrey, in his initial post, says 8 CDs. So there!

Sarge, who knows how to count to eight (anything beyond 10, though, is dicey)  :D
the phone rings and somebody says,
"hey, they made a movie about
Mahler, you ought to go see it.
he was as f*cked-up as you are."
                               --Charles Bukowski, "Mahler"

jwinter

#67
March 31, 2009, 06:15:47 AM
Quote from: Dundonnell on March 31, 2009, 06:09:25 AM
vandermolen(Jeffrey), who started this thread, was basing the concept on the long-running(since 1942) BBC Radio programme of the same name. The rules specify eight "pieces of music". The most popular choice over the years from the celebrity guests-who include the past six British Prime Ministers-has been Beethoven's 9th(specifically, the 'Ode to Joy').

Eight works!!!  You mean I gotta pick just one Mozart concerto, or one Beethoven sonata, for the island?  Screw you guys, I'm shimmying up the palm tree with my iPod!!!  ;D
The man that hath no music in himself,
Nor is not moved with concord of sweet sounds,
Is fit for treasons, stratagems, and spoils.
The motions of his spirit are dull as night,
And his affections dark as Erebus.
Let no such man be trusted.

-- William Shakespeare, The Merchant of Venice

Bogey

#68
March 31, 2009, 06:16:35 AM
Quote from: Dundonnell on March 31, 2009, 06:09:25 AM
vandermolen(Jeffrey), who started this thread, was basing the concept on the long-running(since 1942) BBC Radio programme of the same name. The rules specify eight "pieces of music". The most popular choice over the years from the celebrity guests-who include the past six British Prime Ministers-has been Beethoven's 9th(specifically, the 'Ode to Joy').

This may be more disastrous than Rule 6.10 instituted by the American League in 1973, which allowed for a designated hitter.
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

bwv 1080

#69
March 31, 2009, 06:18:16 AM
Part of the problem with box sets is that one could build a raft from them and escape the island

Dr. Dread

#70
March 31, 2009, 06:19:19 AM
Quote from: Sergeant Rock on March 31, 2009, 06:15:31 AM
Well Jeffrey, in his initial post, says 8 CDs. So there!

Sarge, who knows how to count to eight (anything beyond 10, though, is dicey)  :D

Bloody hell! Then I'll go with whatever 8-disc "Classical Masterpieces" collection is sitting around.  ;D Get a little bit of everyone that way.

Sergeant Rock

#71
March 31, 2009, 06:19:36 AM
Quote from: bwv 1080 on March 31, 2009, 06:13:35 AM
you could always just go with this:





Very, very tempting.

Sarge
the phone rings and somebody says,
"hey, they made a movie about
Mahler, you ought to go see it.
he was as f*cked-up as you are."
                               --Charles Bukowski, "Mahler"

Dr. Dread

#72
March 31, 2009, 06:20:58 AM
Quote from: Sergeant Rock on March 31, 2009, 06:19:36 AM
Very, very tempting.

Sarge

You guys like the Flatlanders? They have a new disc coming out today...

Sergeant Rock

#73
March 31, 2009, 06:23:13 AM
Quote from: jwinter on March 31, 2009, 06:03:19 AM
...I've even got Emmylou.

As should every right thinking person 8)  ;)


Sarge
the phone rings and somebody says,
"hey, they made a movie about
Mahler, you ought to go see it.
he was as f*cked-up as you are."
                               --Charles Bukowski, "Mahler"

Sergeant Rock

#74
March 31, 2009, 06:25:07 AM
Quote from: Mn Dave on March 31, 2009, 06:20:58 AM
You guys like the Flatlanders? They have a new disc coming out today...

They've been off my radar. I've only one Flatlanders disc and I haven't listened to it in ages.

Sarge
the phone rings and somebody says,
"hey, they made a movie about
Mahler, you ought to go see it.
he was as f*cked-up as you are."
                               --Charles Bukowski, "Mahler"

Dundonnell

#75
March 31, 2009, 06:25:56 AM
The original rules of 'Desert Island Discs' said eight gramophone records. I cannot recall what happened if a guest wanted to take a whole opera, for example. The rules were amended to 'eight pieces of music' and guest now do get to take an opera as one piece of music. I shall leave it to vandermolen to give you his interpretation ;D

Elizabeth Schwarzkopf opted to take seven of her own performances ;D ;D

Keemun

#76
March 31, 2009, 06:28:10 AM
Quote from: Dundonnell on March 31, 2009, 06:09:25 AM
vandermolen(Jeffrey), who started this thread, was basing the concept on the long-running(since 1942) BBC Radio programme of the same name. The rules specify eight "pieces of music". The most popular choice over the years from the celebrity guests-who include the past six British Prime Ministers-has been Beethoven's 9th(specifically, the 'Ode to Joy').

Now that we know the official rules, here are my eight works:

1.  Beethoven: String Quartet No. 15, Op. 132 (Quartetto Italiano)

   

2.  Mahler: Symphony No. 2 (Bernstein/NYPO, 1987)

   

3.  Bruckner: Symphony No. 8 (Celibidache/Munich)

   

4.  Tchaikovsky: Violin Concerto (Oistrakh/Ormandy/Philadephia)

   

5.  Bach: Cello Suites (Fournier)

   

6.  Bach: Mass in B minor (Gardiner/English Baroque Soloists)

   

7.  Beethoven: Symphony No. 9 (Karajan/BPO, 1963)

   

8.  Brahms: Ein Deutsches Reqiuem (Karajan/BPO, 1976)

   


Music is the mediator between the spiritual and the sensual life. - Ludwig van Beethoven

Sergeant Rock

#77
March 31, 2009, 06:28:20 AM
Quote from: Dundonnell on March 31, 2009, 06:25:56 AM
The original rules of 'Desert Island Discs' said eight gramophone records. I cannot recall what happened if a guest wanted to take a whole opera, for example. The rules were amended to 'eight pieces of music' and guest now do get to take an opera as one piece of music.

If that's the case, I will take that Karajan Ring as one of my choices  :)

Sarge
the phone rings and somebody says,
"hey, they made a movie about
Mahler, you ought to go see it.
he was as f*cked-up as you are."
                               --Charles Bukowski, "Mahler"

Bogey

#78
March 31, 2009, 06:30:34 AM
Quote from: Sergeant Rock on March 31, 2009, 06:28:20 AM
If that's the case, I will take that Karajan Ring as one of my choices  :)

Sarge



Sarge loading up his Ring Cycle.
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

Dr. Dread

#79
March 31, 2009, 06:30:57 AM
Quote from: Sergeant Rock on March 31, 2009, 06:25:07 AM
They've been off my radar. I've only one Flatlanders disc and I haven't listened to it in ages.

Sarge

The "more a legend than a band" disc? I'd totally take that to a C&W desert island.
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