Topic: The GMG essential collection: a desert island briefcaseful

[Brahmsian]

Schubert - String Quintet in C major (Emerson SQ or Melos Qt w/Rostropovich)

[Drasko]

Ravel - Piano Trio - Rouvier/Kantorow/Muller (Erato)

[mark4mich]

Beethoven Symphonies 5 and 7--Carlos Kleiber/Vienna Philharmonic

[Mirror Image]

So hard, so hard! 
 
Okay, here is mine and this may be an obscure choice or not even a good choice, but...
 
Bloch: Evocations, James Sedares, New Zealand Symphony Orchestra, Koch
 
I could listen to this performance over and over and over again. I have never tired of this work. I could have went with a more popular composer, but where's the fun in that?

[DavidRoss]

Twenty so far--hmmm, had I asked for five suggestions from each of us, we'd be done already! 

The GMG Essential Collection

1.   Mahler, Das Lied von der Erde -- Ludwig/Wunderlich/Klemperer/Philharmonia
2.   Bach's Solo Violin Sonatas and Partitas -- Enescu
3.   Brahms Symphony No. 4 - Reiner/Royal Philharmonic
4.   Stravinsky The Rite of Spring -- Bernstein NYPO ('58)
5.   Beethoven - Piano Concerto No. 5 (Kempff, van Kempen)
6.   Bach - Goldberg Variations - Hantai/Mirare.
7.   Chopin - Études (Pollini, Deutsche Grammophon)
8.   Bach: Cello Suites - Pierre Fournier/DG 
9.   Mozart, Late Symphonies, Harnoncourt, Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra.
10. The Verdi Requiem. Toscanini, NBC 1951.
11. Schubert - Sonata in G, D. 894 - Sviatoslav Richter
12. Shostakovich's SQ 8, by either the Borodins or Emersons
13. Ligeti - Etudes, bks. 1-3 -- Aimard
14. Frank Martin: Der Cornet. Die Weise von Liebe und Tod des Cornets. Lipovsek/ORFSO/Zagrosek Orfeo
15. Tallis - Spem In Alium / Salve Intemerata (Oxford Camerata - Jeremy Summerly / Naxos)
16. Durufle & Faure Requiems- Cleobury/ECO & Choir of KCC/Barley/Bar/Murray
17. Schubert - String Quintet in C major (Emerson SQ or Melos Qt w/Rostropovich)
18. Ravel - Piano Trio - Rouvier/Kantorow/Muller (Erato)
19. Beethoven Symphonies 5 and 7--Carlos Kleiber/Vienna Philharmonic
20. Bloch: Evocations, James Sedares, New Zealand Symphony Orchestra, Koch
 

[Lethevich]

I could cheat and add one more... 

Wagner - Tristan und Isolde (Bohm 1966/DG)

[Brahmsian]

I could cheat and add one more... 

Wagner - Tristan und Isolde (Bohm 1966/DG)

Ooh, good one Sarah! 

[Brahmsian]

David, are you going up to the first 100 suggested recordings?  I like this idea, as you said, it is a list that could never be duplicated anywhere else, and is based on all our own individual picks!

[DavidRoss]

David, are you going up to the first 100 suggested recordings?  I like this idea, as you said, it is a list that could never be duplicated anywhere else, and is based on all our own individual picks!

It seemed worth a try, Ray.  So far I'm surprised by a few of the picks members deem essential for newbies, but that's partly the point of such a list, right?  And I had thought more members might wish to participate, but perhaps I misjudged the number posting regularly these days.  Guess I should have made it another "Mahler v. Bruckner:  Deathmatch!" poll if I really wanted more to join in. 

So perhaps we should follow Sarah's lead and each nominate a second choice to see where that takes us...?  So far we have (alphabetized):

1.   Bach: Cello Suites - Pierre Fournier/DG 
2.   Bach Solo Violin Sonatas and Partitas -- Enescu
3.   Bach - Goldberg Variations - Hantai/Mirare.
4.   Beethoven Symphonies 5 and 7--Carlos Kleiber/Vienna Philharmonic
5.   Beethoven - Piano Concerto No. 5 (Kempff, van Kempen)
6.   Bloch: Evocations, James Sedares, New Zealand Symphony Orchestra, Koch
7.   Brahms Symphony No. 4 - Reiner/Royal Philharmonic
8.   Chopin - Études (Pollini, Deutsche Grammophon)
9.   Durufle & Faure Requiems- Cleobury/ECO & Choir of KCC/Barley/Bar/Murray
10. Ligeti - Etudes, bks. 1-3 -- Aimard
11. Mahler, Das Lied von der Erde -- Ludwig/Wunderlich/Klemperer/Philharmonia
12. Martin: Der Cornet. Die Weise von Liebe und Tod des Cornets. Lipovsek/ORFSO/Zagrosek Orfeo
13. Mozart, Late Symphonies, Harnoncourt, Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra.
14. Ravel - Piano Trio - Rouvier/Kantorow/Muller (Erato)
15. Schubert - String Quintet in C major (Emerson SQ or Melos Qt w/Rostropovich)
16. Schubert - Sonata in G, D. 894 - Sviatoslav Richter
17. Shostakovich SQ 8, by either the Borodins or Emersons
18. Stravinsky The Rite of Spring -- Bernstein NYPO ('58)
19. Tallis - Spem In Alium / Salve Intemerata (Oxford Camerata - Jeremy Summerly / Naxos)
20. Verdi Requiem. Toscanini, NBC 1951.
 
plus Lethe's second pick: Wagner - Tristan und Isolde (Bohm 1966/DG)

for my second pick:
Sibelius, Symphony #5 + Violin Concerto, Haendel/Berglund/Bournemouth

[karlhenning]

Twenty so far--hmmm, had I asked for five suggestions from each of us, we'd be done already! 

So hard to choose one!  Five would not be appreciably easier . . . .

[Bulldog]

My second pick:

Handel - Heroic Arias - Bowman/King/Hyperion.

[Marc]

I'd stuff the entire BWV Bach catalogue in that briefcase .... recordings selected by my humble personal self of course.

[George]

Pick #2

Beethoven - Pathetique Sonata - Ivan Moravec

[Conor71]

For a Second pick:
Rachmaninov: Piano Concerto No. 2 / Tchaikovsky: Piano Concerto No. 1 - Sviatoslav Richter/DG .

[Brahmsian]

An 'essential' list must include Berlioz's Symphonie Fantastique 

Berlioz - Symphonie Fantastique - Sir Colin Davis/London Symphony Orchestra

[Philoctetes]

For my second pick:

Brahms's Piano Concerto No. 1, Gilels/Jochum/BPO

[(poco) Sforzando]

Oh. Now we get a second pick.

OK. Schubert's Schwanengesang, with tenor Petre Munteanu.

[Verena]

Second pick: Since the Schubert Quintet has already been mentioned, I propose: Handel - The Messiah (Christie)

[Franco]

2nd pick

Stravinsky: Symphony of Psalms / Poulenc: Gloria / Bernstein: Chichester Psalms
Leonard Bernstein/London Symphony Orchestra, New York Philharmonic Orchestra, Camerata Singers, Westminster Choir

[Scarpia]

2nd pick

Berg, Chamber Concerto.  Boulez, Barenboim, Zukerman, Ensemble Intercontemporian.