Desert Island Discs

[sunnyside_up]

Bach Cantatas 180/49/115 –Christophe Coin
Bach Goldberg Variations – Christophe Rousset
Bach St Matthew Passion – Philippe Herreweghe
Bach Sonatas & Partitas for Solo Violin – Richard Tognetti
Buxtehude Cantatas – Kevin Mallon
Monteverdi Vespers – Gardiner or Herreweghe
Pergolesi Stabat Mater – Christophe Rousset
Purcell Fantasias for the Viols – Jordi Savall

Of course if we could include box sets this list would be very different!!!

[Que]

Wow, that was tough, very tough! 

If not outright impossible.
I had to ditch Harnoncourt's Matthäus and Furtwänglers Fidelio and Bruckner 9th - just to make room for Schubert and Milstein! 

Bach, Goldberg Variations - Gould ('55 & '81)
Bach, a cantata disc, if pressed I would probably chose "Gottes Zeit ist die allerbeste Zeit" BWV 106 - Gustav Leonhardt
Beethoven, symf. no 9 - Furtwängler Lucerne '54
Brahms, violin concerto - Szigeti
Mozart, Requiem - Bruno Weil
Schubert, piano trio no. 2 - Casals, Horszowski, Schneider (Sony)
Nathan Milstein "Encores"
Alexander Kipnis "Opera arias & songs" (Sony Heritage)

Q

[sidoze]

I am slowly making a reality of this Desert Island Disc idea by cutting my CD collection down to just that (under 100 now). I have a different approach though. Whereas it seems everyone puts the composer's name first when writing these things, I do it by artist name, which if nothing else goes to show I'm more into the cult of celebrity than anything else 

Sofronitsky - several Denon recordings of Chopin, Schumann and Scriabin

Sokolov - several (mostly non-commercial) recordings of Chopin op. 25 etudes, Rach 3, Bach Partita 6

Kubelik - DLvDE, Bruckner 9

Michelangeli - Ravel's Gaspard, live London recital on Testament

S. Feinberg - Bach WTC (would also keep Richter bk 1 / RussianRev for this, and perhaps Edwin Fischer, ugh)

Grumiaux - Bach S&Ps

Eric Dolphy 

[Que]

I am slowly making a reality of this Desert Island Disc idea by cutting my CD collection down to just that (under 100 now).

I'm also sceptical of an enormous collection and like a good culling now and then.
But 100 is far too little to have every masterpiece at hand. I mean - that barely covers Bach's output! 

Q

[Philoctetes]

Anne Queffelec playing Satie and Ravel (4 Discs)
Messiaen's Complete Organ Music Disc 1 ( 1 Disc)
Mahler's Third Symphony conducted by Boulez (2 Discs)
Orbital's Work 1989-2002 (1 Disc)

[George]

I had to cheat: 


Vegh QT, LvB SQ's, Stereo set

Arrau Chopin Nocturnes

Borodin SQ, DSCH SQ 1-13

Wispelwey, Bach Cello Suites

Janis/Dorati, Rachmaninov PCs 2+3

Serkin/Bernstein, Beethoven PC 2+3

Richter, Praga Box 

Annie Fischer, The 32 Beethoven Sonatas

[BachQ]

Richter, Praga Box 

Annie Fischer, The 32 Beethoven Sonatas

cheater

[George]

cheater

And I am still not satisfied. 

[Bunny]

So, how would you play cds on a dessert island?

Build a solar/wind powered electrical generator?

Or in your case, a meringue battery in a sea of custard would suffice.

[George]

Build a solar/wind powered electrical generator?

Or in your case, a meringue battery in a sea of custard would suffice.

That was sweet! 

[Bunny]

I'm also sceptical of an enormous collection and like a good culling now and then.
But 100 is far too little to have every masterpiece at hand. I mean - that barely covers Bach's output! 

Q

That was sweet! 

Nowadays there is no need to permanently cull when thousands of cds can be stored on hard drives in uncompressed files. We can have our cake, and eat it too. yum.

[vandermolen]

Thanks for replies:

I think that I would have to take Gerald Finzi's "Dies Natalis" sung by Wilfrid Brown with the ECO, conducted by Christopher Finzi; a wonderful disc.

[knight66]

I can't do this....someone will have to turn up to my house with a truck and drag all but seven away. Yesterday, having realised I need 70 feet of shelf space in the new flat for my CDs, my wife told me that I was going to have to eat one for every new one I bought. I suggested the same solution for her shoes...she is going to let me off.

Mike

[Bunny]

I can't do this....someone will have to turn up to my house with a truck and drag all but seven away. Yesterday, having realised I need 70 feet of shelf space in the new flat for my CDs, my wife told me that I was going to have to eat one for every new one I bought. I suggested the same solution for her shoes...she is going to let me off.

Mike

You know you can rip all the conventional stereo to hard drive.  Also if you transfer the rest of the cds from jewelcases to the archival sleeves you can cut your storage needs by 4/5ths. 

[knight66]

I am beginning to think along these lines, I need to get my head around the techniques and get over my suspicion that I could loose the data or it might deteriorate. It would be easy to copy and keep it elsewhere. In the new place it will be simple to have my computer put through the Hi-Fi. De-jewelcasing all the single CDs would be sensible.

Mike

[Bunny]

I am beginning to think along these lines, I need to get my head around the techniques and get over my suspicion that I could loose the data or it might deteriorate. It would be easy to copy and keep it elsewhere. In the new place it will be simple to have my computer put through the Hi-Fi. De-jewelcasing all the single CDs would be sensible.

Mike

Almost everyone I know also backs up to DVD or blu-ray dvd.  You can put oodles of cds on one of those.

[Mark]

... my wife told me that I was going to have to eat one for every new one I bought. I suggested the same solution for her shoes...she is going to let me off.

Mike

I'm going to try that with my wife.

Incidentally, I've just started a thread on CD storage solutions. I'll be watching it keenly for ideas.

[Larry Rinkel]

So, how would you play cds on a dessert island?

You don't. You just bring them.

[knight66]

Almost everyone I know also backs up to DVD or blu-ray dvd.  You can put oodles of cds on one of those.

Another thing I to think about; I am however apallingly ignorant about the ever changing technology.

Mike

[Bunny]

Another thing I to think about; I am however apallingly ignorant about the ever changing technology.

Mike

I suppose they don't have the geek squad in Europe?  We can hire computer nerds here to set everything up at very reasonable cost through services like geek squad.  Take a look at their webpage (geeksquad.com).