If you had a gun to your head...

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op.110

May 19, 2008, 08:21:28 PM
and the psychotic bastard with the gun in his hand demanded that you pick ONE recording out of your entire music collection, - the rest would be burned (yes, he's that evil) - which recording would you choose and/or why?

Note: iPod and computer collection would be destroyed as well, but of course saving the files of a recording is an option.

Discuss!

XB-70 Valkyrie

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May 19, 2008, 08:31:24 PM Last Edit: May 19, 2008, 08:33:29 PM by XB-70 Valkyrie
If he had a gun to my head in Canada, the RCMP would arrest him for ten seconds, not charge him, and send him on his way with a blow job and a lollipop (and probably some taxpayer-funded heroin). If I tried to defend myself with my gun, I'd be sent to prison for life.

Anyway, I'd probably pick my Edwin Fischer WTC.
If you really dislike Bach you keep quiet about it! - Andras Schiff

Brian

#2
May 19, 2008, 08:40:52 PM


After being assaulted, I'd be depressed anyways.  ;D

The only other serious contender I can think of would be:

op.110

#3
May 19, 2008, 08:52:39 PM
Excellent choices (especially the Brahms 4). I would choose...



But I might shoot myself in the foot for not selecting...

henry

#4
May 19, 2008, 09:07:45 PM
Interesting.

I'd probably take this:



or this:



hard to decide.

Que

#5
May 19, 2008, 09:27:14 PM Last Edit: May 19, 2008, 09:28:53 PM by Que
I believe we've played this game dozens of times, but here it is - my ONE choice:

Though I'm very impressed with Brian's choice for Paul Komen's Beethoven, justice at last... :)



Oh, and just in case anyone is wondering: it's the 9th symphony, naturally.

Q

Renfield

#6
May 19, 2008, 09:49:00 PM
Que's choice would be mine as well, were it not for this:



Hands down. The "9ths" (Beethoven & Mahler) I am suffused with enough to not feel like I need a recording to remember them; especially after hearing that Beethoven 9th, which would be my next choice, as I mentioned.

But Bruckner's 7th is and will likely remain very special to me, as is this recording. So this is the one I'd keep, my favourite of them all. :)

val

#7
May 20, 2008, 03:33:11 AM
BEETHOVEN:  Piano Sonata no 29 opus 106, by Emil Gilels

hornteacher

#8
May 20, 2008, 03:40:34 AM
Quote from: op.110 on May 19, 2008, 08:21:28 PM
and the psychotic bastard with the gun in his hand demanded.........

Okay, so this takes place at my school?   ;)

If you're allowing a CD set it would be the Mackerras Beethoven Symphony Cycle (which is packaged in ONE double CD case).

Otherwise it would have to be:

Grazioso

#9
May 20, 2008, 04:07:38 AM
If (comically big) sets are allowed--maybe this psycho has a soft spot?--then this would be my easy and obvious choice:



Now if this guy is particularly evil and will only limit me to one disc, then I'd probably go with



which is as close to perfection as things get here on Earth.
There is nothing more deceptive than an obvious fact. --Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

ChamberNut

#10
May 20, 2008, 04:15:39 AM
Quote from: XB-70 Valkyrie on May 19, 2008, 08:31:24 PM
If he had a gun to my head in Canada, the RCMP would arrest him for ten seconds, not charge him, and send him on his way with a blow job and a lollipop (and probably some taxpayer-funded heroin). If I tried to defend myself with my gun, I'd be sent to prison for life.

XB, that was good!  And as a fellow Canadian, I agree pretty much with that statement, as I'm sure a lot of other Canucks do as well.

Beethoven String Quartets - Quartetto Italiano

not edward

#11
May 20, 2008, 05:30:46 AM
Obviously such a question is impossible to answer, really. But this recording seems to me ideal on so many ways that I'd have to nominate it:

"I don't at all mind actively disliking a piece of contemporary music, but in order to feel happy about it I must consciously understand why I dislike it. Otherwise it remains in my mind as unfinished business."
-- Aaron Copland, The Pleasures of Music

springrite

#12
May 20, 2008, 05:33:50 AM
Speaking as one who has indeed has a gun to his head a couple of times, my pick would be:

The Rite of Spring (Dorati, Detroit, Decca)

Don

#13
May 20, 2008, 05:42:28 AM
Quote from: XB-70 Valkyrie on May 19, 2008, 08:31:24 PM
Anyway, I'd probably pick my Edwin Fischer WTC.

I pick Rosalyn Tureck's WTC.

Keemun

#14
May 20, 2008, 05:44:00 AM
I'd have to go with this one:

Music is the mediator between the spiritual and the sensual life. - Ludwig van Beethoven

marvinbrown

#15
May 20, 2008, 05:45:58 AM
Quote from: op.110 on May 19, 2008, 08:21:28 PM
and the psychotic bastard with the gun in his hand demanded that you pick ONE recording out of your entire music collection, - the rest would be burned (yes, he's that evil) - which recording would you choose and/or why?

Note: iPod and computer collection would be destroyed as well, but of course saving the files of a recording is an option.

Discuss!

 This:

 

 This is not only the greatest Ring Cycle on record it is also one of the greatest achievements in the history of recorded music.  It would be a real shame to see it go up in flames!

 marvin

Harry

#16
May 20, 2008, 05:48:48 AM
Tchaikovsky's symphonies conducted by Herbert van Karajan. :)

MN Dave

#17
May 20, 2008, 05:51:13 AM


Well, there was a gun to my head and I couldn't concentrate!

Keemun

#18
May 20, 2008, 05:55:27 AM
Quote from: MN Dave on May 20, 2008, 05:51:13 AM


Well, there was a gun to my head and I couldn't concentrate!

But why is it in your collection to begin with? ???
Music is the mediator between the spiritual and the sensual life. - Ludwig van Beethoven

MN Dave

#19
May 20, 2008, 05:56:45 AM
Quote from: Keemun on May 20, 2008, 05:55:27 AM
But why is it in your collection to begin with? ???

How did that get there?!
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