Top 10 favorite works, one by each composer

Sammy · October 19, 2013, 02:15:59 PM

Quote from: DaveF on October 19, 2013, 01:32:20 PM
I'm not sure that quite obeys the rule about being of no use to help you escape from the island...

Hey, you're the one who requested a breaking of the rules by including books and luxury items.

DavidW · October 19, 2013, 02:40:59 PM

A cell tower for my luxury item provided that I don't use it to get help. Just use the connection to waste time on the forum.

vandermolen · October 20, 2013, 03:56:07 AM

Quote from: DavidW on October 19, 2013, 11:50:49 AM
You won't regret it!

Thank you David!

vandermolen · October 20, 2013, 04:01:58 AM

Quote from: DaveF on October 19, 2013, 01:02:13 PM
This thread is very close in conception to the long-running (61 years so far) BBC radio programme Desert Island Discs, which will be familiar to all UK members - celebrity guest talks about his/her life and is required to choose 8 "records" to take to a desert island, plus a book (the scripture of your chosen religion and the complete works of Shakespeare are already provided) and a luxury (something of no practical value, especially of no escaping-from-desert-island value). What constitutes a "record" has never been precisely defined - at least not to the satisfaction of a nit-picker like me - but I think The Ring or Licht probably count as more than one.

So, would anyone consider adding the book and the luxury to their 10, or 8 pieces?

DF

Yes, the Desert Island Discs idea occurred to me as well ( I was once actually mentioned on the programme

)

My book would be Le Petit Prince (in English

) by Antoine de Saint-Exupery which I can read over and over again.

As for a luxury, well maybe my pipe with a large supply of tobacco ( I am not allowed to smoke it at home so now would be my big chance).

mc ukrneal · October 20, 2013, 04:05:48 AM

Luxury item - easy- lifetime supply of toilet paper!

North Star · October 20, 2013, 06:41:29 AM

Luxury item: Computer with Internet & decent speakers (only used for reading books, listening to music on Spotify, NML, etc, and not for escaping)

DavidW · October 20, 2013, 06:50:49 AM

Quote from: mc ukrneal on October 20, 2013, 04:05:48 AM
Luxury item - easy- lifetime supply of toilet paper!

That's a clever answer!

Papy Oli · October 20, 2013, 06:54:28 AM

Beethoven - Sonata No.4 Op.7
Bruckner - Symphony No.8
Chopin - Ballade No.1
Loewe - Edward or Erlkonig
Mahler - Symphony No.2
Part - Kanon Pokajanen
Rameau - Le Rappel des oiseaux
Satie - Gymnopedies
Scarlatti - any of the keyboard sonatas really
Tallis - Salve Intemerata

DaveF · October 20, 2013, 10:51:38 AM

Quote from: Sammy on October 19, 2013, 02:15:59 PM
Hey, you're the one who requested a breaking of the rules by including books and luxury items.

I wasn't breaking the rules

; I was merely... adding a few more. Desert Island Discs is such an institution in the UK, it was impossible not to make the connection. But I'd forgotten about the cruellest rule of all: at the end you are asked to choose just one of your eight discs to keep.

But since I do seem to have derailed the thread slightly, here goes with my own 10 (plus book, plus luxury, plus favourite one). In date rather than preference order, and trying to get a good spread of different genres:

Browne: Stabat Mater - Taverner Consort
Byrd: The Quadran Pavan & Galliard - Davitt Moroney
Bach: Singet dem Herrn - Knabenchor Hannover/Hilliard Ensemble/London Baroque
Haydn: Symphony no.94 - Concertgebouw/Davis
Beethoven: String quartet Op.130/133 - Lindsays
Weber: Der Freischütz - Kleiber
Debussy: Violin sonata - Grumiaux/Hajdu
Nielsen: Flute Concerto - Galway
Stravinsky: Symphony of Psalms - Westminster Cathedral/City of London Sinfonia/O'Donnell
Nick Drake: From the Morning

Book: some comprehensive poetry anthology such as the New Oxford Book of English Verse.
Luxury: guitar, plus stack of music ranging from elementary to advanced.
One disc to keep: John Browne.

Quote from: vandermolen on October 20, 2013, 04:01:58 AM
Yes, the Desert Island Discs idea occurred to me as well ( I was once actually mentioned on the programme )

Do you want to tell us which one, since UK users can listen online to any episode dating back to I don't know when - 30 years or more? (My original post was wrong; it's been going for 71 years, not 61.)

DF

vandermolen · October 21, 2013, 11:28:21 AM

Quote from: DaveF on October 20, 2013, 10:51:38 AM

Do you want to tell us which one, since UK users can listen online to any episode dating back to I don't know when - 30 years or more? (My original post was wrong; it's been going for 71 years, not 61.)

DF

Yes, sure. It was the one featuring Anthony Julius whom I was at school with. I get a couple of mentions as a 17 year old pipe smoking fogey, sitting around with Anthony in my parent's flat in Earl's Court listening to Vaughan Williams.

madaboutmahler · October 29, 2013, 06:31:37 AM

Mahler 7
Elgar 2
Schnittke Faust Cantata
Ravel La Valse
Strauss Mondscheinmusik from Capriccio
Stravinsky Rite of Spring
Shostakovich 5
Rachmaninov PC 3
Rimsky Korsakov Scheherezade
Dvorak Cello Concerto
Karlowicz Episodes at a Masquerade

North Star · October 29, 2013, 06:35:20 AM

Quote from: madaboutmahler on October 29, 2013, 06:31:37 AM
Mahler 7
Elgar 2
Schnittke Faust Cantata
Ravel La Valse
Strauss Mondscheinmusik from Capriccio
Stravinsky Rite of Spring
Shostakovich 5
Rachmaninov PC 3
Rimsky Korsakov Scheherezade
Dvorak Cello Concerto
Karlowicz Episodes at a Masquerade

Nice list, Daniel - but this isn't a kyjo thread, and you have 11 items there.

Of course, you could choose to have the score of one of them as the luxury item..

Lisztianwagner · October 29, 2013, 10:20:24 AM

Wagner Der Ring des Nibelungen
Beethoven Symphony No.9
Mahler Symphony No.6
Liszt Hungarian Rhapsody No.2
Rachmaninov Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini
Holst The Planets
Tchaikovsky Symphony No.6
Rimsky-Korsakov Capriccio espagnol
Ravel La Valse
Strauss Eine Alpensinfonie

Karl Henning · October 29, 2013, 10:23:05 AM

Ilaria! Liszt is down to n^o. 4?!

Lisztianwagner · October 29, 2013, 10:31:16 AM

Quote from: karlhenning on October 29, 2013, 10:23:05 AM
Ilaria! Liszt is down to n^o. 4?!

Never!

I didn't rank them in a particular order.......

Karl Henning · October 29, 2013, 10:41:46 AM

Oh, all right, then

kyjo · October 29, 2013, 05:10:32 PM

Quote from: madaboutmahler on October 29, 2013, 06:31:37 AM
Mahler 7
Elgar 2
Schnittke Faust Cantata
Ravel La Valse
Strauss Mondscheinmusik from Capriccio
Stravinsky Rite of Spring
Shostakovich 5
Rachmaninov PC 3
Rimsky Korsakov Scheherezade
Dvorak Cello Concerto
Karlowicz Episodes at a Masquerade

Cool, Daniel! Three matches on our lists

Jaakko Keskinen · May 23, 2014, 11:48:11 AM

1. Wagner: Ring
2. Beethoven: String quartet 14 op. 131
3. Brahms: String quartet 3 op. 67
4. Sibelius: Pohjola's daughter op. 49
5. Rachmaninov: The Rock
6. Richard Strauss: Alpensinfonie
7. Schubert: String quartet 14
8. Bruckner: Symphony 6
9. Tchaikovsky: Sleeping Beauty
10. Verdi: Aida

Minor Key · May 17, 2015, 04:17:06 PM

My ten:
Mahler Symphony 9
Sibelius Symphony 7
Tchaikovsky Symphony 6
Shostakovich Symphony 10
Bruckner Symphony 8
Dvorak Symphony 9
Beethoven Symphony 9
Mozart Symphony 40
Schubert Symphony 8
Brahms Symphony 4

And I love the "desert island discs"! My book would be War and Peace, and luxury item.....it's hard to argue with toilet paper.

springrite · May 17, 2015, 05:05:56 PM

Bach Goldberg Variations
Mahler Symphony #9
Brian Symphony #10
Beethoven Sonata Op111
Feldman For Philip Guston
Rubbra Symphony #3
Schubert Sonata in G
Mozart Clarinet Quintet
Brahms Symphony #4
Medtner Sonata #1