You're scheduled for immediate deportation on a desert island. As a last favor, you're allowed to take with you the complete works of one single composer. You have 5 minutes to decide --- no second thoughts, no alternate choices allowed. Five minutes for one and only one composer. Name him / her and have a nice lifetime on the island!
My pick: Mozart.
Richard Wagner, of course. :)
Took just something like 15 seconds... ;D
Quote from: ritter on December 19, 2018, 01:09:32 PM
Richard Wagner, of course. :)
Took just something like 15 seconds... ;D
I saw it coming. :D
Tchaikovsky, absolute!
Beethoven. My dude.
Easy one, really!
In the present time, it is Bruckner.
J S Bach - who would doubt that?
Haydn. ;)
8)
Quote from: Florestan on December 19, 2018, 12:45:39 PM
You're scheduled for immediate deportation on a desert island. As a last favor, you're allowed to take with you the complete works of one single composer. You have 5 minutes to decide --- no second thoughts, no alternate choices allowed. Five minutes for one and only one composer. Name him / her and have a nice lifetime on the island!
My pick: Mozart.
Well definitely Webern then
Mahler
On my saner moments it would certainly be Bach, but those moments are now few and far between.
10 voters, 10 different composers so far!
In terms of variety, works, affinity, tastes, I would say Dvorak, BUT I wouldn't consider him as my favorite composer ever.
You are asking me to pick between Bach and Mahler.
Suicide, I guess.
Quote from: JBS on December 19, 2018, 05:12:17 PM
You are asking me to pick between Bach and Mahler.
Suicide, I guess.
I have the perfect solution for this: bi-polar!
Quote from: springrite on December 19, 2018, 05:40:21 PM
I have the perfect solution for this: bi-polar!
No. Mahler for the mania, but Bach is not exactly depressing.
Multiple Personality Disorder, perhaps?
Quote from: Florestan on December 19, 2018, 12:45:39 PM
You're scheduled for immediate deportation on a desert island. As a last favor, you're allowed to take with you the complete works of one single composer. You have 5 minutes to decide --- no second thoughts, no alternate choices allowed. Five minutes for one and only one composer. Name him / her and have a nice lifetime on the island!
My pick: Mozart.
5 minutes? Don't be ridiculous. I don't need 5 seconds. I knew my answer by the end of your first sentence. Bach.
Quote from: JBS on December 19, 2018, 05:12:17 PM
You are asking me to pick between Bach and Mahler.
Suicide, I guess.
Paul Suicide wrote a pretty good violin concerto. Or do you mean Hans Suicide, his cousin?
Bartók
(with apologies to Ives, Bruckner, and Mahler)
--Bruce
J.S. Bach
Boulez. It took me longer to scroll down to Quick Reply than it took to decide!
Hector Berlioz
Brahms is the first name that comes to mind. But I don't know for sure. And while I always find if interesting to learn the opinion and taste(s) of informed individuals distilled down to favourite/top ten/desert island kinds of lists, I'm not sure if my own favours are so faithful. I mean, Shostakovich (in Russia, travel midwinter bundled in hats and scarves via a trolley bus to an almost austerity hallmarked concert hall and hear the Shosty 10) busts my chops with both the honesty and absurdity of the human condition. Meanwhile, Debussy does a fine job of reminding me how unequipped I am to understand music beyond the facile.
tl;dr: probably Brahms.
Mozart
Mahler
First 10 favourite composers, then 25, now just 1? OK then.
My desert-island composer is Tchaikovsky.
Maybe we can come to some sort of consensus between the three threads...
Quote from: shirime on December 20, 2018, 01:19:08 AM
Boulez. It took me longer to scroll down to Quick Reply than it took to decide!
Yeah, I think for most of us it takes nanoseconds. Picking a second choice might be hard though!
If I had a gun pointed to my head, then Sibelius I suppose.
Quote from: Ken B on December 20, 2018, 06:52:25 AM
Yeah, I think for most of us it takes nanoseconds. Picking a second choice might be hard though!
For me it was a toss up between Debussy and Brahms. I chose Debussy, but Brahms is a close second and they alternate on a regular basis.
Tchaikovsky, without question.
Beethoven,
I'd regret Brahms, Mozart, Bach, Sibelius, Mahler, Debussy, Stravinsky
Richard Strauss.
Quote from: TheGSMoeller on December 20, 2018, 08:19:01 AM
Richard Strauss.
That was one of my guesses. My other guess was Glass.
Vaughan Williams
Quote from: Ken B on December 20, 2018, 06:52:25 AM
Yeah, I think for most of us it takes nanoseconds. Picking a second choice might be hard though!
Not at all. It's Wagner.
Quote from: ChamberNut on December 20, 2018, 10:44:09 AM
That was one of my guesses. My other guess was Glass.
Glass is so close! Top 3 for sure, maybe even top 2 if I'm listening to
Songs from Liquid Days!
Wagner.
Schubert would be my first pick but I'd miss Beethoven.
Quote from: amw on December 20, 2018, 08:34:23 PM
Schubert would be my first pick but I'd miss Beethoven.
I hesitated between Schubert and Mozart but eventually the operas, the concertos and the violin sonatas made the difference.
Verdi
Quote from: André on December 21, 2018, 07:21:19 AM
Verdi
This was a shock to me. I thought it would be 100% Bruckner.
Quote from: ChamberNut on December 21, 2018, 08:42:37 AM
This was a shock to me. I thought it would be 100% Bruckner.
That was my opinion on December 21, 2018 at 11:21:19 am. ;)
Quote from: André on December 21, 2018, 10:28:02 AM
That was my opinion on December 21, 2018 at 11:21:19 am. ;)
Yeah but five minutes after that you were on your way to the desert island, complete works of Verdi as luggage. I said it clearly: no second thoughts, no alternate choices --- one and only one. So you're stuck with Verdi for life, I'm afraid, your opinion on December 27, 2018 at 13:45:09 notwithstanding. ;D
Quote from: Florestan on December 21, 2018, 11:06:31 AM
Yeah but five minutes after that you were on your way to the desert island, complete works of Verdi as luggage. I said it clearly: no second thoughts, no alternate choices --- one and only one. So you're stuck with Verdi for life, I'm afraid
Inhuman.
I'm perfectly fine with that ! :D
Schnittke... ::)
There's only one William Byrd.
Quote from: Ken B on December 22, 2018, 07:16:40 AM
So they Tallis.
Excellent one. 8)
This thread is silly, but I started it in reaction to such threads as "Your Top X Composers / Symphonies / Concertos / Trombone Sextets / Whatnot" where X is any number between 3 and 25. Actually I fully subscribe to Bartok's dictum that competitions are for horses, not for artists. If I were deported to a desert island, I'd take with me my whole musical and literary library. :laugh:
Beethoven. Less than a second to decide.
No one.
I'm assuming I go there with my memory intact.
J.S. Bach
Quote from: André on December 21, 2018, 07:21:19 AM
Verdi
??? We can't be friends anymore, André... :( :P
We all have our little secrets. But don't worry. I have a B list and even a C list. ;D
Quote from: André on December 28, 2018, 11:53:08 AM
We all have our little secrets. But don't worry. I have a B list and even a C list. ;D
If Andrei allows you a B island or a C island you'll be fine.
Quote from: André on December 21, 2018, 07:21:19 AM
Verdi
Joe Green should be the name of a football great, NOT of a composer :P
Quote from: André on December 28, 2018, 11:53:08 AM
We all have our little secrets. But don't worry. I have a B list and even a C list. ;D
Don't we all! ;D In all seriousness, I should give ol' Giuseppe another chance. I actually do really like his epic
Te deum from the
Quattro pezzi sacri, which I've had the opportunity to perform. I should try to get into his operas, but I must say we listened to a bit of
Aida in my music history class at one point and I was soon searching for the nearest emergency exit! ::) ;D
Quote from: Florestan on December 21, 2018, 02:54:53 AM
I hesitated between Schubert and Mozart but eventually the operas, the concertos and the violin sonatas made the difference.
Yeah, if only Schubert had composed some concerti...
Quote from: kyjo on December 28, 2018, 06:03:16 PMbut I must say we listened to a bit of Aida in my music history class at one point and I was soon searching for the emergency exits! ::) ;D
Small mistake here, must have been his opera 'Salida', not
Aida:
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Quote from: Christo on December 29, 2018, 12:06:27 AM
Small mistake here, must have been his opera 'Salida', not Aida:
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:D :laugh:
One word, BACH.
Beethoven.
Stravinsky
Quote from: San Antone on October 02, 2019, 05:08:57 PM
Beethoven.
Cheat! You already picked one and the rule is no second thoughts.
Quote from: Ken B on October 02, 2019, 06:01:36 PM
Cheat! You already picked one and the rule is no second thoughts.
;D
Your memory is better than mine. Anyway, I've been listening to a lot of Beethoven and none of the other guy.
Honestly, it'd probably be somebody outside the realm of "classical music"... probably a jazz guy... this would be way easier if you could choose say a favorite performer or favorite orchestra/conductor combo
To play along, though... my primary interests in classical music are instrumental orchestral pieces and piano music ... all things considered, for the combination of sheer quality and quantity, I think I'd pick Beethoven even if there's others I like just as much or more...
I'd have an easier time picking one solo performer, one conductor and one orchestra