Your Desert Island ‘3'

[vandermolen]

Interesting thread and interesting responses. However, I'm supposed to be getting ready for my daughter's wedding on Friday and my wife takes a dim view if, instead of doing that, I'm online to my 'cat group'. So, I may be a bit out of touch for a day or two.

[Brahmsian]

Interesting thread and interesting responses. However, I'm supposed to be getting ready for my daughter's wedding on Friday and my wife takes a dim view if, instead of doing that, I'm online to my 'cat group'. So, I may be a bit out of touch for a day or two.

Congratulations on your daughter getting married.  I hope it all goes well, Jeffrey!

[vandermolen]

Congratulations on your daughter getting married.  I hope it all goes well, Jeffrey!

Thank you so much! Much appreciated. Don't want to derail this great thread but it's a big day for us. She asked for my musical suggestions for the marriage, but I doubt whether she'll be playing Miaskovsky's 6th Symphony 

It's complicated because her delightful husband to be is Canadian and his family can't come over. So, Friday will be a small scale event with, hopefully, a larger celebration in the future when his family can join us. We have Canadian connection as my wife's family lived there for many years and my dad trained there as an RAF navigator during WW2. Now, back to 'Desert Island Discs'

[Brahmsian]

Thank you so much! Much appreciated. Don't want to derail this great thread but it's a big day for us. She asked for my musical suggestions for the marriage, but I doubt whether she'll be playing Miaskovsky's 6th Symphony 

It's complicated because her delightful husband to be is Canadian and his family can't come over. So, Friday will be a small scale event with, hopefully, a larger celebration in the future when his family can join us. We have Canadian connection as my wife's family lived there for many years and my dad trained there as an RAF navigator during WW2. Now, back to 'Desert Island Discs'

Your daughter is in good hands, she is marrying a Canuck! 

You mean, Miaskovsky's Cello Concerto is not proper wedding music?? 

[Mirror Image]

Interesting thread and interesting responses. However, I'm supposed to be getting ready for my daughter's wedding on Friday and my wife takes a dim view if, instead of doing that, I'm online to my 'cat group'. So, I may be a bit out of touch for a day or two.

Wow! Congratulations to your daughter, Jeffrey. I wish her much happiness in this new chapter of her life. My only hope is the chap she's marrying is a good person and will treat her well. I also hope he gets along with you and your wife. Nothing worse than a son-in-law who is a jerk.

[Mirror Image]

I'm afraid it won't. I just can't. Sorry. 

No problem, but as a consequence your third slot doesn't count.

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Shostakovich	- for the psychological complexity as much as the musical
Beethoven	- for the piano sonatas, in the first instance
Nielsen	- for the joy of his music, never tire of it

Nice list, ultralinear.

[MusicTurner]

That is great to hear, VdM, congratulations, and nice with those common references across the Atlantic.

I can relate to most of the choices here, 4 composers would be somewhat easier. But they'd have to be substantial and varied oeuvres, and I might-might go for Mozart, Nielsen and, partly for something challenging to continue to explore, Nørgård.

Biggest losses would probably be Bruckner, Mahler, Stravinsky and Beethoven. But then, I also like the idea of VW, Myaskovsky, and (maybe) Sibelius ...

[vandermolen]

Your daughter is in good hands, she is marrying a Canuck! 

You mean, Miaskovsky's Cello Concerto is not proper wedding music?? 

Haha - I think that it would be a great choice!

[vandermolen]

Wow! Congratulations to your daughter, Jeffrey. I wish her much happiness in this new chapter of her life. My only hope is the chap she's marrying is a good person and will treat her well. I also hope he gets along with you and your wife. Nothing worse than a son-in-law who is a jerk.

Thank you very much John - he seems to be a lovely person, kind and thoughtful, so we are hopeful. They both have a good sense of humour which I think is very important in marriage!

[vandermolen]

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Thanks for all the lovely comments re my daughter getting married. I just wanted to say that it was important for me to communicate this happy news with this group. 

[ritter]

Not many changes in my case...

In alphabetical order:

Pierre Boulez
Claude Debussy
Richard Wagner

(Igor Stravinsky's regular visits to my desert island would be most welcome).

And congratulations, vandermolen! Great news....

[vandermolen]

Not many changes in my case...

In alphabetical order:

Pierre Boulez
Claude Debussy
Richard Wagner

(Igor Stravinsky's regular visits to my desert island would be most welcome).

And congratulations, vandermolen! Great news....

Thank you! 

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Thank you very much John - he seems to be a lovely person, kind and thoughtful, so we are hopeful. They both have a good sense of humour which I think is very important in marriage!

Quite nice to read, Jeffrey. Wishing them the best.

[Mirror Image]

Not many changes in my case...

In alphabetical order:

Pierre Boulez
Claude Debussy
Richard Wagner

(Igor Stravinsky's regular visits to my desert island would be most welcome).

And congratulations, vandermolen! Great news....

Nice list if a bit predictable, Rafael.

[foxandpeng]

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Thanks for all the lovely comments re my daughter getting married. I just wanted to say that it was important for me to communicate this happy news with this group.

Lovely news. May it be a fantastic day, and more importantly, a stunning marriage.

Arnold Bax, because I'm listening to him on repeat at the moment, and loving his symphonies.

Sibelius...because, Sibelius

Vagn Holmboe, because I find him fascinating. Never immediately easy, always rewarding. Symphonies win. Kairos is still really hard to get my head round even after many listens.

[Brahmsian]

You're on a desert island, but only allowed three composers to listen to for the rest of your life, who would they be and why?

My picks:

Debussy, Mahler and Strauss

John, I am surprised that you decided not to bring one second Viennese school composer with you. 

Ten years ago, I would have predicted Delius, Koechlin and Shostakovich for your choices.

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John, I am surprised that you decided not to bring one second Viennese school composer with you. 

Ten years ago, I would have predicted Delius, Koechlin and Shostakovich for your choices.

Yeah, I certainly considered Schoenberg or Berg for example and I was leaning towards Schoenberg, but I don't think I could have gone with either one of them since if I thought about more deeply. Yes, I don't doubt that my tastes have changed for better or for worse, but when you spend so many years with this music, you begin to refine your tastes and with my own choices I think I've got to the essence of who I am as a listener and what I like when all is said and done. Not that I don't love many other composers' music of course.

[Symphonic Addict]

Cesar, I had a hunch that Beethoven would be in your desert island picks.

Am I so predictable? 

[Symphonic Addict]

Interesting thread and interesting responses. However, I'm supposed to be getting ready for my daughter's wedding on Friday and my wife takes a dim view if, instead of doing that, I'm online to my 'cat group'. So, I may be a bit out of touch for a day or two.

Congratulations, Jeffrey! My best wishes for their marriage.