Your 20th Century desert island picks

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jochanaan

#40
August 09, 2009, 03:34:08 PM
Quote from: Keemun on August 09, 2009, 01:02:19 PM
...Strauss: Tod und Verklarung (Death and Transfiguration)
Uh, strike one.  Tod und Verklärung was first performed in 1890. :)
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Keemun

#41
August 09, 2009, 07:03:50 PM
Quote from: jochanaan on August 09, 2009, 03:34:08 PM
Uh, strike one.  Tod und Verklärung was first performed in 1890. :)

Damn, the one work for which I didn't check the date. . . .  :P  I'll try to come up with a suitable replacement tomorrow.  :)
Music is the mediator between the spiritual and the sensual life. - Ludwig van Beethoven

cliftwood

#42
August 10, 2009, 12:37:25 AM
This is an almost impossible task, but I'll try:

Mahler Symphonies # 3, 5, 7 & 9

Shostakovich Symphonies # 5, 8, & 10

Hindemith Symphony in E Flat

Wm.Schuman Symphony # 3

Shostakovich Preludes & Fugues

Florestan

#43
August 10, 2009, 02:18:06 AM
Bartok: Piano Concerto No. 2
Rachmaninoff: Piano Concerto No. 3
Khachaturyan: Piano Concerto, Violin Concerto
Enescu: Sonata for Violin and Piano No. 3
Stravinsky: Petrushka
Prokofiev: Romeo and Juliet
Debussy: La mer
"Beauty must appeal to the senses, must provide us with immediate enjoyment, must impress us or insinuate itself into us without any effort on our part." - Claude Debussy

Ten thumbs

#44
August 10, 2009, 05:51:12 AM
Here are another two (up to 4 now):
Bartok: Concerto for Orchestra
Messiaen: Harawi
A day may be a destiny; for life
Lives in but little—but that little teems
With some one chance, the balance of all time:
A look—a word—and we are wholly changed.

Keemun

#45
August 10, 2009, 06:01:27 AM
My corrected list, with credit to jochanaan for pointing out my error: :)

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)
Adams: Harmonielehre
Music is the mediator between the spiritual and the sensual life. - Ludwig van Beethoven

techniquest

#46
August 10, 2009, 02:04:44 PM
QuoteMahler Symphonies # 3, 5, 7 & 9

No no no! Mahler 3 was composed in 1895/6 so it doesn't count. If I can't have Mahler 3 then no one can have it :P

CD

#47
August 10, 2009, 02:36:38 PM
I apologize in advance for the lack of accent marks. :)

Faure - String Quartet
Schoenberg - Pelleas und Melisande
Janacek - String Quartet No. 2 "Intimate Letters"
Stravinsky - Orpheus
Ravel - Chansons Madecasses
Sibelius - Symphony No. 6
Nielsen - Symphony No. 5
Koechlin - Vers la voute etoilee

George

#48
August 10, 2009, 03:04:39 PM
Quote from: corey on August 10, 2009, 02:36:38 PM
I apologize in advance for the lack of accent marks. :)

;D

That should be my signature.  :D

eyeresist

#49
August 11, 2009, 01:01:15 AM
Quote from: jochanaan on August 07, 2009, 10:12:47 AM
The complete works of Edgard Varèse. ;D
Yes, and if you can thwack a coconut while making a siren noise with your mouth, you won't even need to lug along your stereo :P


Bax Symphony 3
Bax Symphony 7
Hindemith Symphonic Dances (for dancing)
Prokofiev Symphony 3
Prokofiev Piano Concerto 1 (always gives me a lift)
Shostakovich Cello Concerto 1
Vaughan Williams Symphony 7 (because desert islands get hot)
Vaughan Williams Symphony 8 (for Christmas)

springrite

#50
August 11, 2009, 01:31:43 AM
Quote from: eyeresist on August 11, 2009, 01:01:15 AM

Bax Symphony 7


Uh, I am so glad I am not the only one who considers it a great symphony!

Mahler 9
Bax 7
Rite of Spring
Feldman: For Piano and String Quartet
Salome
Ravel Piano Concerto
Shostakovich String Quartet #3
Wozzeck
Crumb: Madrigals
Prokofiev Piano Concerto #3 (or #1)
Do what I must do, and let what must happen happen.

eyeresist

#51
August 11, 2009, 02:40:21 AM
Quote from: springrite on August 11, 2009, 01:31:43 AM
Uh, I am so glad I am not the only one who considers it a great symphony!
I only encountered it recently, and thought I was unimpressed, but it somehow snuck in under the radar (even though I still find Lloyd-Jones slightly awkward in it). It's melodically among Bax's strongest moments, and, rare for him, has such a feeling of open blue skies, and peace.

Dancing Divertimentian

#52
August 11, 2009, 08:47:35 PM
Quote from: eyeresist on August 11, 2009, 01:01:15 AM
Yes, and if you can thwack a coconut while making a siren noise with your mouth, you won't even need to lug along your stereo :P

Well, you'll need something to keep you awake during all that Vaughan Williams...
Veit Bach-a baker who found his greatest pleasure in a little cittern which he took with him even into the mill and played while the grinding was going on. In this way he had a chance to have the rhythm drilled into him. And this was the beginning of a musical inclination in his descendants. JS Bach

eyeresist

#53
August 12, 2009, 07:52:19 PM
Quote from: Dancing Divertimentian on August 11, 2009, 08:47:35 PM
Well, you'll need something to keep you awake during all that Vaughan Williams...
I need a fresh cowpat - this one's gone cold...

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