The GMG essential collection: a desert island briefcaseful

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Scarpia

Even if we can't amend other people's suggestions, we can try to convince people to change their own picks.  For instance, if we have the entire Ring, do we need Tristan?   Maybe Strauss's Salome or Rosenkavelier instead?

Is the Requiem that most characteristic Verdi?  Why not Otello?

Sergeant Rock

Quote from: Scarpia on September 07, 2010, 07:41:22 AM
Even if we can't amend other people's suggestions, we can try to convince people to change their own picks.

I agree. To that effect, please change your Berg Chamber Concerto to Berg's Violin Concerto ;)

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"

AndyD.


Strauss Eine Alpensinfonie (Kempe)
Wagner Parsifal (Kubelik)
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Lethevich

A sweet plan. One Ring is enough Wagner for a short(ish) list.

98   Wagner           Tristan und Isolde               Böhm (1966)
Strauss - Salome (Solti/Nilsson/Decca)

Issues alongside what David Ross observed: no Haydn or Schubert symphony disc, two Pärt discs (speaking as a fan, this is excessive), no Mussorgsky's Pictures, no Tchaikovsky PC1 or Sym6. No Grieg/Schumann PC coupling either. No Mendelssohn italian symphony either, eek!
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karlhenning

Quote from: Lethe on September 07, 2010, 07:54:18 AM
. . . two Pärt discs (speaking as a fan, this is excessive) . . . .

2/100 . . . agreed.

AndyD.

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karlhenning


Lethevich

Quote from: AndyD. on September 07, 2010, 07:57:09 AM
I second (not that it matters).
Frankly, anyone who can enjoy the music and not be put off by the cover photograph is fine by me ;D

Nilsson is simply the best Salome. Whether you have to be blind or just enlightened to realise this, I am not sure.
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karlhenning

Won't be the first cover I've had to disregard . . . .

Scarpia

Quote from: Sergeant Rock on September 07, 2010, 07:48:40 AM
I agree. To that effect, please change your Berg Chamber Concerto to Berg's Violin Concerto ;)

Ok, I agree (Berg Violin Concerto, Mutter, Levine, Chicago Symphony) conditional on you changing your Mahler 5 to Barbirolli's recording.   :P

karlhenning

Oh, gosh, I am sorry to see that Chamber Concerto recording go!

Sergeant Rock

Quote from: Scarpia on September 07, 2010, 08:03:01 AM
Ok, I agree (Berg Violin Concerto, Mutter, Levine, Chicago Symphony) conditional on you changing your Mahler 5 to Barbirolli's recording.   :P

Nah, Dohnányi and Cleveland blow the socks off the stodgy Barbirolli.

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"

AndyD.

Quote from: Lethe on September 07, 2010, 08:00:29 AM
Frankly, anyone who can enjoy the music and not be put off by the cover photograph is fine by me ;D

Nilsson is simply the best Salome. Whether you have to be blind or just enlightened to realise this, I am not sure.

She was also the best Elektra, Brunnhilde, and definitely maybe Isolde, in my humble opinion.


Quote from: k a rl h e nn i ng on September 07, 2010, 07:59:21 AM
Your agreement matters, Andy! : )


You are very kind!
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Sergeant Rock

Quote from: k a rl h e nn i ng on September 07, 2010, 08:06:44 AM
Oh, gosh, I am sorry to see that Chamber Concerto recording go!

That's the problem with changing things now. I'm very sorry to see Tristan go...it's a far more important opera, in my opinion, than Salome.

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"

AndyD.

Quote from: Sergeant Rock on September 07, 2010, 08:08:46 AM
That's the problem with changing things now. I'm very sorry to see Tristan go...it's a far more important opera, in my opinion, than Salome.

Sarge


Would there have been a Salome without Tristan und Isolde? I'm betting there certainly wouldn't have been an Elektra without it.
http://andydigelsomina.blogspot.com/

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Scarpia


Sergeant Rock

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Quote from: Lethe on September 07, 2010, 08:00:29 AM
Nilsson is simply the best Salome. Whether you have to be blind or just enlightened to realise this, I am not sure.

I prefer Behrens, Studer, Nielsen, Welitsch and Caballé (edit: and Natalie Portman, I forgot Natalie Portman)...but then, I'm completely unenlightened  ;D

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"

DavidRoss

As long as we don't come to blows, I welcome a vigorous discussion of alternatives, and lobbying is permitted, but as Grand Poobah of this thread, I rule against changing anyone else's picks but your own.  Heck, I'm not sure even that is ideal, as many of our choices were doubtless conditioned by our expectations about what others might or might not select...but I'm open to it if y'all think a revised list would be interesting as well (and even though keeping track of revisions might prove a chore I'll regret!  ;)

And for those late to the party, or who wish to carry this exercise a step further in a slightly different direction, I've just started a Personal Essentials List thread here: http://www.good-music-guide.com/community/index.php/topic,17174.msg447443.html#msg447443
"Maybe the problem most of you have ... is that you're not listening to Barbirolli." ~Sarge

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AndyD.

Quote from: Sergeant Rock on September 07, 2010, 08:12:18 AM
I prefer Behrens, Studer, Nielsen, Welitsch and Caballé (edit: and Natalie Portman, I forgot Natalie Portman)...but then, I'm completely unenlightened  ;D

Sarge
Quote from: Sergeant Rock on September 07, 2010, 08:12:18 AM
I prefer Behrens, Studer, Nielsen, Welitsch and Caballé (edit: and Natalie Portman, I forgot Natalie Portman)...but then, I'm completely unenlightened  ;D

Sarge


I liked the Studer, but the rest I haven't heard. I thought that Stratas was an excellent Salome, and I love the dvd.

It's hard for me not to pick Nilsson, she's my favorite female heavy metal singer, ever.
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