Your 20th Century desert island picks

[bhodges]

Andriessen: De Staat.

Interesting that the Andriessen has shown up on not one, but several lists.  I'm a big fan of his music but haven't heard this one!

--Bruce

[Marc]

Interesting that the Andriessen has shown up on not one, but several lists.  I'm a big fan of his music but haven't heard this one!

Here's a small mp3 sample, to give you an idea:
http://weblogs.hollanddoc.nl/lalottacontinua/tag/de-staat/

Very nice desert island music!

[bhodges]

Thanks!  Like that snippet a lot...obviously need to get this at some point. 

--Bruce

[admiralackbar74]

Another useless list , I like it.

Don't think of these lists as useless! I'm finding tons of stuff I haven't explored yet that I'm putting on my listening list! Keep 'em coming!

[George]

Ligeti Etudes for Piano
Ligeti String Quartets
Part Fratres
Prokofiev Piano Sonatas
Schoenberg Quartets
Shostakovich Quartets
Shostakovich Symphonies
Scriabin Piano Sonatas 4-10

[Ten thumbs]

I'm not rushing into this, so I'll begin with two indispensable works:
Medtner: Piano Concerto No. 3
Bonis: Septet

[Marc]

Another useless list , I like it.

Don't think of these lists as useless! I'm finding tons of stuff I haven't explored yet that I'm putting on my listening list! Keep 'em coming!

Oops!
Sorry!

(Then again: I admitted I liked it.)

[Sergeant Rock]

Ligeti Etudes for Piano
Ligeti String Quartets
Part Fratres
Prokofiev Piano Sonatas
Schoenberg Quartets
Shostakovich Quartets
Shostakovich Symphonies
Scriabin Piano Sonatas 4-10

George! ...that's about 62 pieces. The rules say 8 max, dude 

SArge

[Grazioso]

Just eight? That's cruel. I want to move to a desert island with more liberal music laws

But here are eight that I'd really rather not go without:

Mahler symphony 7
Pettersson symphony 7
Debussy La Mer
Norgard symphony 3
Pärt Lamentate
RVW London symphony
Korngold symphony in F#
Hindemith Mathis der Maler symphony

[George]

George! ...that's about 62 pieces. The rules say 8 max, dude 

SArge

No laws on my desert island. 

[DavidW]

No laws on my desert island. 

Except one-- "pleasure is the law!"   That and starving.

[71 dB]

Elgar - The Apostles, Op. 49

That's worth 8 works of music for me.  0:)

[Marc]

Thanks!  Like that snippet a lot...obviously need to get this at some point. 

At least Andriessen's De Staat is still available on Amazon:
http://www.amazon.com/Staat-Louis-Andriessen/dp/B000005J0K

[Tomo]

Okay, took the thread challenge in a literal sense and thought about the ten works I'd want with me if I were deserted on an island.  The ones chosen stretched, for me, a range of emotions from the angst of the human (often inhuman) condition to spirituality, hope, and beauty.  These aren't necessarily my favorites even of a particular composer (Stravinsky).  Simply, they are works that might help me carry on with my isolation on that island.  The biggest problem is that some are VERY short and wouldn't fill up the hours that well.

In no particular order:
1.  Stravinsky - Mass
2.  Vaughan Williams -  Symphony No. 6 with the added "The Lark Ascending"
3.  Shostakovich -  String Quartet No. 15
4.  Shostakovich - Symphony No. 10
5.  Mahler - Das Lied von der Erde
6.  Janacek - Glagolitic Mass
7.  Sibelius - Tapiola
8.  Strauss - Four Last Songs

[Bulldog]

Tomo:

Great avatar.  Is that a white sheppard?  I have one that looks quite similar.

[Tomo]

Why, yes it is.  Great dogs!!!  Actually, he is Tomo, which is Japanese for "companion."

[techniquest]

Shostakovich - Symphony No.13
RVW - Symphony No.2 (1913 original version)
Khachaturian - Symphony No.2
Ravel - La Valse
Yes - Tales from Topographic Oceans
Nielsen - Symphony No.4
Mahler - Symphony No.8
Steve Hackett - Spectral Mornings

That's my choice as it stands at this moment...

[Bulldog]

Why, yes it is.  Great dogs!!!  Actually, he is Tomo, which is Japanese for "companion."

Yes, they are wonderful dogs.  Mine sheds like crazy most of the year; the remainder is ultra-crazy.

[Cleo Telerín]

Being stranded in a desert island must be rather depressing, so I would fill the suitcase with candy:

Nielsen - Sinfonia semplice
Prokofiev - Piano Concerto No. 3
Martinu - String Quartet No. 3
Schulhoff - Ogelala
Bartók - Concerto for Orchestra
Popov - Symphony No. 6
Schnittke - Gogol Suite
Kagel - Les ideés fixes

[Keemun]

Here is my list.  I will preface it by saying that being restricted to 20th century works was difficult for me because most of my desert island works would pre-date the 20th century.   

Mahler: Symphony No. 9
Sibelius: Symphony No. 5
Sibelius: Tapiola
Pettersson: Symphony No. 7
Martinu: Symphony No. 4
Stenhammar: Symphony No. 2
Schmidt: Symphony No. 4
Strauss: Tod und Verklarung (Death and Transfiguration)