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Title: Desert Island Discs
Post by: vandermolen on May 02, 2017, 11:48:59 PM
Ok let's play this. In case you don't know Desert Island Discs is a popular BBC radio programme where public figures select the eight discs that they would choose to have with them if stranded on a Desert Island. Maybe we've done this before but here goes anyway. As a bonus you can choose one boxed set:

Miaskovsky: Symphony 6 (List/ UralPO)
Moeran: Symphony in G (Dilkes/English Sinfonia)
Bax: Symphony 3 (Downes/LSO)
Walton: Symphony 1 (Thomson/LPO)
Sibelius: Tapiola (Segerstam/Helsinki PO)
Bruckner: Symphony 9 (Furtwangler/Berlin PO)
Shostakovich: Symphony 11 '1905' (Pritchard/BBC SO)
David Diamond: Symphony 3 (Schwarz/Seattle SO)

Bonus boxed set: Vaughan Williams symphonies (LPO/Boult)

No need to mention orchestra/conductor.
Title: Re: Desert Island Discs
Post by: DaveF on May 03, 2017, 12:10:41 AM
Quote from: vandermolen on May 02, 2017, 11:48:59 PM
Maybe we've done this before but here goes anyway.

We have! - because you sent me away to the BBC archive to listen to the episode where your friend described you two young fogies smoking your pipes and listening to Schoenberg.  But at the risk of compiling a completely different list from previously:

John Browne: Stabat mater (The Sixteen)
Byrd: The Quadran pavan & galliard (Davitt Moroney)
Bach: Singet dem Herrn (Hilliard Ensemble. Knabenchor Hannover, London Baroque)
Haydn: Symphony no.94 (Concertgebouw/Davis)
Weber: 1st act trio from Der Freischütz (Kleiber)
Stravinsky: Symphony of Psalms (Craft)
Nielsen: Clarinet concerto (Karin Dornbusch)
Nick Drake: From the morning

And the boxed set offer seems terribly generous - you could have the complete Mozart/Beethoven/Bach - so I'll play within the spirit of the rules and have The Lindsays' Beethoven quartets.
Title: Re: Desert Island Discs
Post by: vandermolen on May 03, 2017, 12:31:21 AM
Quote from: DaveF on May 03, 2017, 12:10:41 AM
We have! - because you sent me away to the BBC archive to listen to the episode where your friend described you two young fogies smoking your pipes and listening to Schoenberg.  But at the risk of compiling a completely different list from previously:

John Browne: Stabat mater (The Sixteen)
Byrd: The Quadran pavan & galliard (Davitt Moroney)
Bach: Singet dem Herrn (Hilliard Ensemble. Knabenchor Hannover, London Baroque)
Haydn: Symphony no.94 (Concertgebouw/Davis)
Weber: 1st act trio from Der Freischütz (Kleiber)
Stravinsky: Symphony of Psalms (Craft)
Nielsen: Clarinet concerto (Karin Dornbusch)
Nick Drake: From the morning

And the boxed set offer seems terribly generous - you could have the complete Mozart/Beethoven/Bach - so I'll play within the spirit of the rules and have The Lindsays' Beethoven quartets.
My apologies! I did search 'Desert Island Discs' in the search facility but nothing came up and I'd forgotten that I'd shown off about my mention on the programme. Think it was probably VW rather that Schoenberg! Interesting choices.
Title: Re: Desert Island Discs
Post by: Jo498 on May 03, 2017, 01:04:48 AM
Quote from: DaveF on May 03, 2017, 12:10:41 AM
Weber: 1st act trio from Der Freischütz (Kleiber)
Is that "O diese Sonne" or which piece is the trio?
Title: Re: Desert Island Discs
Post by: North Star on May 03, 2017, 01:23:08 AM
Bach - Musical Offering (Savall)
Beethoven - String Quartets, Opp. 131 & 132 (Endellion String Quartet)
Bartók - Dance Suite, Two Pictures, Hungarian Sketches, Divertimento (Boulez & CSO, DG)
Chopin - Ballades, Fantaisie, Barcarolle (Zimerman)
Dufay - 'O gemma lux' (Huelgas Ensemble)
Mozart - Clarinet Quintet & Kegelstatt Trio (Wolfgang Meyer, Quatuor Mosaïques, Patrick Cohen)
Hommage à Piazzolla (Kremer)
Sibelius - Symphonies nos. 6 & 7 and Tapiola (Vänskä & Lahti) (although the complete Tempest would be a good, and appropriate, choice too...)

Bonus box set: Ravel - The Complete Edition (Decca Universal)

(this thread (http://www.good-music-guide.com/community/index.php/topic,17174.0.html) with 30 choices is the closest match I recall that has been done here before)
Title: Re: Desert Island Discs
Post by: Mirror Image on May 03, 2017, 05:26:10 AM
Oh boy, this could prove to be quite difficult:

Sibelius: Tone Poems - Vänskä/Lahti SO (BIS)
Nielsen: Symphony Nos. 3 & 5 - Bernstein/Royal Danish Orch./New York Phil. (Sony)
Bartók: Piano Concertos - Schiff/Fischer/Budapest Festival Orch. (Warner)
Shostakovich: Violin Concerto No. 1 - Batiashvili/Salonen/Bavarian RSO (DG)
Vaughan Williams: Symphony No. 5 - Previn/LSO (RCA)
Ravel/Debussy: Chamber Music - Nash Ensemble (Virgin Classics)
Prokofiev: Piano Concertos - Krainev/Kitajenko/Frankfurt RSO (Warner)
Szymanowski: Choral Works - Rattle/CBSO (EMI)

Box set: N/A - I couldn't even begin to bother to answer this part as I'd never be fully satisfied with my choice.
Title: Re: Desert Island Discs
Post by: Brian on May 03, 2017, 06:03:06 AM
The easy choices:

Beethoven: Piano Sonatas Nos. 30-32 (Penelope Crawford, Musica Omnia)
Dvorák: String Quartets Nos. 12 and 13 (Pavel Haas Quartet, Supraphon)
Janáček: Glagolitic Mass / Sinfonietta (Warsaw PO, Antoni Wit, Naxos)
Schubert: String Quintet (Petersen Quartet with Michael Sanderling, Berlin Classics)

The harder choices:

Beethoven: Symphonies Nos. 5 and 7 (Vienna PO, Carlos Kleiber, Deutsche Grammophon)
Grieg: Selected Lyric Pieces (Emil Gilels, Deutsche Grammophon)
Istanbul (Hesperion XXI, Jordi Savall, Alia Vox)
Vaughan Williams: Symphony No. 5 and Tallis Fantasy (Royal PO, Andre Previn, Telarc)

The box set (also a very easy choice):

George Szell/Cleveland Orchestra: Complete Haydn Recordings (Sony)
Title: Re: Desert Island Discs
Post by: North Star on May 03, 2017, 06:05:42 AM
Quote from: Brian on May 03, 2017, 06:03:06 AM
The easy choices:

Beethoven: Piano Sonatas Nos. 30-32 (Penelope Crawford, Musica Omnia)
I almost chose that one, too.
Title: Re: Desert Island Discs
Post by: Brian on May 03, 2017, 06:16:38 AM
BONUS NON-CLASSICAL POST JUST TO CAUSE ANARCHY

Abbey Road (The Beatles)
At Carnegie Hall (Dave Brubeck Quartet)
Blues and Roots (Charles Mingus ensemble)
Duke Ellington Meets Coleman Hawkins
High Priestess of Soul (Nina Simone)
Mercy, Mercy, Mercy! (Adderley quintet)
Nina Simone Sings the Blues
Revolver (The Beatles)

Box set: Cookin' Workin' Relaxin' Steamin' with the Miles Davis Quintet
Title: Re: Desert Island Discs
Post by: amw on May 03, 2017, 06:50:08 AM
Tchaikovsky - Suite No. 3 & Serenade for Strings (Kondrashin)
Schumann - Kreisleriana & Kinderszenen (Argerich)
Beethoven - String Quartet No. 13 Op. 130/133 (Hagen Quartett)
Schubert - Piano Sonatas D. 959 and 960 (Schnabel)
Brahms - Violin Sonatas Nos. 1, 2 and 3 (Frank/Serkin)
Brahms - String Sextets Nos. 1 and 2 (L'Archibudelli)
Hosokawa & Miyata - Deep Silence
Barrett - Dark Matter (Elision)

Box set: Emerson Quartet Complete Recordings on DG..... although I feel like that's cheating >.> in which case, Serkin/Beethoven
Title: Re: Desert Island Discs
Post by: Sergeant Rock on May 03, 2017, 07:12:27 AM
Havergal Brian Symphony No.1 "Gothic" (Lenard/CSR Bratislava)
Brahms Symphony No.4 plus Overtures (Szell/Cleveland)
Sibelius Symphony No.5 (Rattle/Philharmonia)
Mahler Symphony No.4 (Maazel/Battle/Vienna)
Vaughan Williams Symphonies No.8 and 9 (Boult/LPO)
Beethoven Piano Sonatas Pathétique and Moonlight (Gilels)
Mozart Piano Concertos No.20 and 21 (Bilson/Gardiner/EBS)
Bruckner Symphony No.3 (Celibidache/Munich)

Box Set: Haydn Complete Symphonies (Fischer) ...that probably won't fit on the island. But this will:

Haydn The London Symphonies (Norrington/Stuttgart)


Title: Re: Desert Island Discs
Post by: Karl Henning on May 03, 2017, 07:17:05 AM
Quote from: Sergeant Rock on May 03, 2017, 07:12:27 AM
Sibelius Symphony No.5 (Rattle/Philharmonia)

The Philharmonia rather than the CBSO?
Title: Re: Desert Island Discs
Post by: Todd on May 03, 2017, 07:21:36 AM
Individual Discs:

Beethoven, Piano Sonatas, Volume 6 - Annie Fischer
Beethoven, String Quartets Opp 132, 135 - Brentano Quartet
Michel Block Plays the Holy Music of Franz Liszt
Hildegard von Bingen, Vocation - Marie Luise Hinrichs
Faure, Requiem - Carlo Maria Giulini
Morales, Officium Defunctorum & Missa Pro defunctis - Jordi Savall
Schubert, Piano Works - Kun Woo Paik
Debussy, Piano Works Volume 4 - Michel Beroff (Denon)


Box-set:

Arthur Rubinstein: The Complete Album Collection
Title: Re: Desert Island Discs
Post by: Christo on May 03, 2017, 07:53:18 AM
Some discs:
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Box-set:
(http://www.musicweb-international.com/classrev/2010/Nov10/RVW_collector_2066362.jpg)
Title: Re: Desert Island Discs
Post by: vandermolen on May 03, 2017, 08:46:09 AM
Quote from: North Star on May 03, 2017, 01:23:08 AM
Bach - Musical Offering (Savall)
Beethoven - String Quartets, Opp. 131 & 132 (Endellion String Quartet)
Bartók - Dance Suite, Two Pictures, Hungarian Sketches, Divertimento (Boulez & CSO, DG)
Chopin - Ballades, Fantaisie, Barcarolle (Zimerman)
Dufay - 'O gemma lux' (Huelgas Ensemble)
Mozart - Clarinet Quintet & Kegelstatt Trio (Wolfgang Meyer, Quatuor Mosaïques, Patrick Cohen)
Hommage à Piazzolla (Kremer)
Sibelius - Symphonies nos. 6 & 7 and Tapiola (Vänskä & Lahti) (although the complete Tempest would be a good, and appropriate, choice too...)

Bonus box set: Ravel - The Complete Edition (Decca Universal)

(this thread (http://www.good-music-guide.com/community/index.php/topic,17174.0.html) with 30 choices is the closest match I recall that has been done here before)
I love the Complete Tempest and great bonus boxed set choice.
Title: Re: Desert Island Discs
Post by: vandermolen on May 03, 2017, 08:49:48 AM
Quote from: Christo on May 03, 2017, 07:53:18 AM
Some discs:
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Box-set:
(http://www.musicweb-international.com/classrev/2010/Nov10/RVW_collector_2066362.jpg)
Great choices - or rather ones that I largely share. I felt guilty about leaving out BS Symphony 4 and suspected that you'd rub it in by choosing it yourself! Much the same about Tubin.
Thanks to all for great postings.
Title: Re: Desert Island Discs
Post by: Christo on May 03, 2017, 10:03:24 AM
Non-classical albums to restore some order:

Bel Canto, Shimmering, Warm and Bright
Dead Can Dance, Within the Realm of a Dying Sun
Japan, Gentlemen Take Polaroids
Laibach, Nova Akropola
The Royal Family and The Poor, The Temple of The 13th Tribe
Talk Talk, The Colour of Spring
Twice A Man, Driftwood
Ultravox, Rage in Eden

Box-set: David Sylvian Weatherbox


Title: Re: Desert Island Discs
Post by: Sergeant Rock on May 03, 2017, 10:12:05 AM
Quote from: k a rl h e nn i ng on May 03, 2017, 07:17:05 AM
The Philharmonia rather than the CBSO?

I like both but yes, the Philharmonia performance of the Symphony, coupled with Night Ride and Sunrise, gets marooned with me.

Sarge
Title: Re: Desert Island Discs
Post by: Karl Henning on May 03, 2017, 10:12:36 AM
Quote from: Sergeant Rock on May 03, 2017, 10:12:05 AM
I like both but yes, the Philharmonia performance of the Symphony, coupled with Night Ride and Sunrise, gets marooned with me.

Sarge

I appreciate the clarification, good sir  :)
Title: Re: Desert Island Discs
Post by: Sergeant Rock on May 03, 2017, 10:48:24 AM
Non-classical

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Title: Re: Desert Island Discs
Post by: North Star on May 03, 2017, 11:49:58 AM
Non-classical

Creedence Clearwater Revival - Platinum
Miles Davis - Miles Smiles
Deep Purple - Machine Head
Grant Green - Idle Moments
Mark Knopfler - Sailing to Philadelphia (although lately I might have just listed nothing but Knopfler / Dire Straits)
Led Zeppelin - IV
Charlie Mingus - Mingus Ah Um
The Who - Who's Next
Title: Re: Desert Island Discs
Post by: Sergeant Rock on May 03, 2017, 12:02:58 PM
Quote from: North Star on May 03, 2017, 11:49:58 AM
Mark Knopfler - Sailing to Philadelphia (although lately I might have just listed nothing but Knopfler / Dire Straits)

I could imagine half a desert island list featuring Knopfler: Dire Straits (his first album), Making Movies, Love Over Gold and All the Roadrunning (with Emmylou Harris).

Sarge
Title: Re: Desert Island Discs
Post by: DaveF on May 03, 2017, 12:57:15 PM
Quote from: Jo498 on May 03, 2017, 01:04:48 AM
Is that "O diese Sonne" or which piece is the trio?

Yes, you're right - what the score calls "no.2" - Terzett mit Chor, which begins with O diese Sonne and ends with Wir lassen die Hörner erschallen.  In fact any or every number from Freischütz would do just as well, except that there seems to be an unspoken rule in the BBC radio programme that you only have short pieces - single songs, arias or movements.
Title: Re: Desert Island Discs
Post by: DaveF on May 03, 2017, 12:58:41 PM
Quote from: vandermolen on May 03, 2017, 12:31:21 AM
My apologies! I did search 'Desert Island Discs' in the search facility but nothing came up and I'd forgotten that I'd shown off about my mention on the programme.

Hardly showing off, surely - just sharing an amusing story.
Title: Re: Desert Island Discs
Post by: James on May 03, 2017, 03:10:56 PM
I used to listen to this show .. i'll do art music now, maybe popular music later ..

Bartok, 6 SQs (Juilliard, Sony, 2 discs)
Bach, Brandenburg Ctos (Pinnock, Archiv, 2 discs)
Bach, Partitas (Gould, Sony, 2 discs)
Wagner, Overtures & Preludes (Various, DG, 2 discs)
Faure, Works for Pno (Doyen, Erato, 2 discs)
Stravinsky, Apollo/Agon/Orpheus (Craft, Naxos)
Title: Re: Desert Island Discs
Post by: TheGSMoeller on May 03, 2017, 03:43:13 PM
Quote from: Sergeant Rock on May 03, 2017, 07:12:27 AM
Haydn The London Symphonies (Norrington/Stuttgart)

Bravo, Sarge!
Title: Re: Desert Island Discs
Post by: springrite on May 03, 2017, 04:34:42 PM
Quote from: Mirror Image on May 03, 2017, 05:26:10 AM
Oh boy, this could prove to be quite difficult:


John, just for you, we can send you to a Desert Archipelago with a canoe so you have multitude of eight discs for each island.


For me:
Feldman: For Philip Guston (This is 4 CDs. If not acceptable, I will pick For Piano and String Quartet)
Stravinsky Rite of Spring (Markevitch)
Bach: Goldberg Variation (Gould 3)
Beethoven: Overtures (Klemperer, EMI)
Liszt: Transcendental Etudes (Bolet, Ensayo)
Rubbra: Symphony #3 and #7 (Hickox)
Brian Symphony #10 and #30 (Brabbins)
Beethoven Quartet op95 and op127 (Smetana Quartet)


Boxset: Furtwangler: The Legacy (108 CDs)
(I did not choose the Rubinstein Boxset just to avoid the misunderstanding that I am only choosing it because of the large number is discs in it)
Title: Re: Desert Island Discs
Post by: TheGSMoeller on May 03, 2017, 05:19:26 PM
These are the first that pop into my head, could change if I really dug deep into my collection, but I'm good with these...

Prokofiev: Symphonies No. 5 & 7 - Tennstedt/Bavarian RSO
Bruckner: Symphony No. 8 - Wand/Berlin
Glass: Orion - Philip Glass Ensemble
Berg: Wozzeck - Ingo Metzmacher/Hamburg
Rameau: Keyboard Music - Pinnock or Vinikour or Meyer or Hewitt...not sure which to choose, all I know is I need this music with me!
Black Angels - Kronos Quartet
Berlioz: Symphonie Fantastique - MTT/SFS
Monteverdi: Orfeo - Jacobs/Concerto Vocale

Box Set: R.Strauss: Orchestral Works - Kempe/Staatskapelle Dresden - Easy choice for me because I wouldn't be able to choose just one Strauss disc to be deserted with
Title: Re: Desert Island Discs
Post by: Mirror Image on May 03, 2017, 05:27:27 PM
Quote from: springrite on May 03, 2017, 04:34:42 PMJohn, just for you, we can send you to a Desert Archipelago with a canoe so you have multitude of eight discs for each island.

Whoah...that would be awesome! ;D
Title: Re: Desert Island Discs
Post by: SymphonicAddict on May 03, 2017, 05:28:59 PM
Respighi: Vetrate di Chiesa, Impressioni Brasiliane (Simon, Chandos)
Tchaikovsky: Symphony Nr. 5 (Karajan, BPO, EMI)
Schubert: String quintet (Rostropovich, Melos Quartett, DG)
Sibelius: Symphony Nr. 5 (Karajan, DG)
Khachaturian: Symphony Nr. 2 (Järvi, Chandos)
Nielsen: Choral works (Segerstam, Chandos)
Beethoven: Missa Solemnis (Karajan, DG)
Bantock: A Celtic Symphony, A Hebridean Symphony (Handley, Hyperion)

Box-set: Atterberg's symphonies (cpo)
Title: Re: Desert Island Discs
Post by: Mirror Image on May 03, 2017, 05:44:58 PM
An attempt at a non-classical desert island disc list:

Genesis: The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway
Pink Floyd: Wish You Were Here
Steve Hackett: Voyage of the Acolyte
Yes: Relayer
Miles Davis: Miles Ahead
Pat Metheny Group: Offramp
Tomasz Stanko: Suspended Night
Will Ackerman: Conferring with the Moon
Title: Re: Desert Island Discs
Post by: vandermolen on May 04, 2017, 06:54:46 AM
Quote from: Brian on May 03, 2017, 06:16:38 AM
BONUS NON-CLASSICAL POST JUST TO CAUSE ANARCHY

Abbey Road (The Beatles)
At Carnegie Hall (Dave Brubeck Quartet)
Blues and Roots (Charles Mingus ensemble)
Duke Ellington Meets Coleman Hawkins
High Priestess of Soul (Nina Simone)
Mercy, Mercy, Mercy! (Adderley quintet)
Nina Simone Sings the Blues
Revolver (The Beatles)

Box set: Cookin' Workin' Relaxin' Steamin' with the Miles Davis Quintet
Great idea which I fully support. Abbey Road is great choice. I remember when the LP first came out - I was a teenager. I came home from school and the LP was on my bed. My mum had bought it for me even though it was not my birthday. Funny how almost fifty years later that still stays with me.  :)
Title: Re: Desert Island Discs
Post by: vandermolen on May 04, 2017, 06:56:26 AM
Quote from: Sergeant Rock on May 03, 2017, 07:12:27 AM
Havergal Brian Symphony No.1 "Gothic" (Lenard/CSR Bratislava)
Brahms Symphony No.4 plus Overtures (Szell/Cleveland)
Sibelius Symphony No.5 (Rattle/Philharmonia)
Mahler Symphony No.4 (Maazel/Battle/Vienna)
Vaughan Williams Symphonies No.8 and 9 (Boult/LPO)
Beethoven Piano Sonatas Pathétique and Moonlight (Gilels)
Mozart Piano Concertos No.20 and 21 (Bilson/Gardiner/EBS)
Bruckner Symphony No.3 (Celibidache/Munich)

Box Set: Haydn Complete Symphonies (Fischer) ...that probably won't fit on the island. But this will:

Haydn The London Symphonies (Norrington/Stuttgart)
Share many of these. Bruckner, Sibelius, Mahler and, of course, HB.  :)
Title: Re: Desert Island Discs
Post by: NorthNYMark on May 04, 2017, 08:49:59 AM
Brahms, Piano Concerto #1 (Szell/Curzon)
Brahms, Symphony #4 (Walter)
Brahms, Cello Sonatas (Starker/Sebok)
Beethoven, Symphony #9 (Karajan)
Bartok, String Quartets (Novak Quartet)
Bartok, Concerto for Orchestra/Music for Strings, Percussion, and Celesta (Reiner)
Schubert, String Quartet #15 (Quartetto Italiano)

Boxed set: Shostakovich String Quartets (Mandelring Quartet)
Title: Re: Desert Island Discs
Post by: Karl Henning on May 04, 2017, 08:56:38 AM
Quote from: NorthNYMark on May 04, 2017, 08:49:59 AM
Boxed set: Shostakovich String Quartets (Mandelring Quartet)

Nice!
Title: Re: Desert Island Discs
Post by: kishnevi on May 04, 2017, 09:12:56 AM
first off, this set
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Pretty sure it's out of print, which is a shame, since it contains a number of interesting cycles (Barshai Shostakovich, Fischer Haydn, Goodman Schubert, Blomstedt Beethoven, a HIP Mozart,  Kuchar Nielsen, a hodge podge Mahler, etc.)

Individual CDs
Emerson SQ recording of Kunst der Fuge
Aimard's recording of Ligeti's Etudes
Rubenstein's recording of Chopin's Nocturnes
These, in lieu of full sets of the various cycles and genres represented
[asin]B000027JEP[/asin]
[asin]B000JBWWL0[/asin]
[asin]B00000417L[/asin]
[asin]B000007TKK[/asin]
[asin]B000004194[/asin]


Title: Re: Desert Island Discs
Post by: Archaic Torso of Apollo on May 04, 2017, 10:39:40 AM
Quote from: Brian on May 03, 2017, 06:16:38 AM
BONUS NON-CLASSICAL POST JUST TO CAUSE ANARCHY


I welcome anarchy. Can't do classical right now, too many choices. But I can do these two lists:

Pop/rock/folk:

The Beatles, The Beatles (AKA White Album)
The Band, Music from Big Pink
Van Morrison, Astral Weeks
Tom Waits, Rain Dogs
Fairport Convention, Liege & Lief
Pentangle, Basket of Light
Richard & Linda Thompson, I Want to See the Bright Lights Tonight
Leonard Cohen, Songs of Leonard Cohen

Jazz:

Cannonball Adderley, Somethin' Else
Miles Davis, Kind of Blue
Bill Evans, Complete Village Vanguard Recordings
Dave Holland, Conference of the Birds
John Coltrane, A Love Supreme
Eric Dolphy, Out to Lunch
Steps Ahead, Steps Ahead
Thelonious Monk, Brilliant Corners
Title: Re: Desert Island Discs
Post by: Turner on May 04, 2017, 12:02:35 PM
OK, I´ll through in some stuff too, tentatively ...


Bruckner - Symphony 4 /Barenboim teldec-warner
Bruckner - Symphony 8 /Haitink,CtGeb 198x
Mahler - Symphony 10 /Wigglesworth, or Rattle/Birmingham
Scriabin - 10 Piano Sonatas /Ashkenazy 2cd
Nielsen - Symphonies 3+5 /Bernstein
Nielsen - Symphonies 4+5 /Blomstedt, decca
Stravinsky - concertante piano works /Mustonen
Nørgård - Symphony 3 & Piano Concerto /Segerstam

+ Mozart Complete Edition / philips
Title: Re: Desert Island Discs
Post by: Archaic Torso of Apollo on May 04, 2017, 01:00:28 PM
Quote from: Turner on May 04, 2017, 12:02:35 PM

Bruckner - Symphony 8 /Haitink,CtGeb 198x

Is this the hard-to-find Philips recording made about 1982? I'm a fan of that one, but an even bigger fan of the 9th they did about the same time.
Title: Re: Desert Island Discs
Post by: Dancing Divertimentian on May 04, 2017, 04:00:18 PM
Quote from: springrite on May 03, 2017, 04:34:42 PM
Liszt: Transcendental Etudes (Bolet, Ensayo)

Great pick! And uncommon...
Title: Re: Desert Island Discs
Post by: kishnevi on May 04, 2017, 04:21:10 PM
Pop/Rock
Bruce Springsteen The River
Backstreet Boys Nevergone
Backstreet Boys Unbreakable
Fleetwood Mac Rumours
The remaining four would be greatest hits compilations from Foreigner, the Beatles, Van Halen, and Guns n Roses.

The BSB CDs, btw, are two they released after their boy band peak, much more mature and high quality, in part because they had better than usual songwriters, especially on Nevergone.
Title: Re: Desert Island Discs
Post by: Turner on May 04, 2017, 07:39:50 PM
Quote from: Archaic Torso of Apollo on May 04, 2017, 01:00:28 PM
Is this the hard-to-find Philips recording made about 1982? I'm a fan of that one, but an even bigger fan of the 9th they did about the same time.

Yes, I was too lazy to check the shelf for the date, but concerning this Bruckner VIII, it's the digital 2CD one from 1981, in my case coupled with a 1974 "Siegfried Idyll".

I also have it as a 3LP set, together with the mentioned 9th.
Title: Re: Desert Island Discs
Post by: vandermolen on May 04, 2017, 10:04:44 PM
I'll have a go at non-classical:

Beatles: Magical Mystery Tour
Beatles: White Album
Beatles: Abbey Road
Dreams (short-lived American Jazz-Rock band c.1970): Dreams
Chicago: Chicago Transit Authority
Jimi Hendrix: The Cry of Love
Pink Floyd: Wish You Were Here
Santana: Caravanserai

Boxed set: George Harrison: All Things Must Pass.
Title: Re: Desert Island Discs
Post by: vandermolen on May 04, 2017, 10:09:34 PM
Quote from: DaveF on May 03, 2017, 12:58:41 PM
Hardly showing off, surely - just sharing an amusing story.
:)
Title: Re: Desert Island Discs
Post by: vandermolen on May 04, 2017, 10:14:41 PM
Quote from: springrite on May 03, 2017, 04:34:42 PM
John, just for you, we can send you to a Desert Archipelago with a canoe so you have multitude of eight discs for each island.


For me:
Feldman: For Philip Guston (This is 4 CDs. If not acceptable, I will pick For Piano and String Quartet)
Stravinsky Rite of Spring (Markevitch)
Bach: Goldberg Variation (Gould 3)
Beethoven: Overtures (Klemperer, EMI)
Liszt: Transcendental Etudes (Bolet, Ensayo)
Rubbra: Symphony #3 and #7 (Hickox)
Brian Symphony #10 and #30 (Brabbins)
Beethoven Quartet op95 and op127 (Smetana Quartet)


Boxset: Furtwangler: The Legacy (108 CDs)
(I did not choose the Rubinstein Boxset just to avoid the misunderstanding that I am only choosing it because of the large number is discs in it)
Love the Rubbra choices and Brian No.10.
Title: Re: Desert Island Discs
Post by: vandermolen on May 04, 2017, 10:16:36 PM
Quote from: SymphonicAddict on May 03, 2017, 05:28:59 PM
Respighi: Vetrate di Chiesa, Impressioni Brasiliane (Simon, Chandos)
Tchaikovsky: Symphony Nr. 5 (Karajan, BPO, EMI)
Schubert: String quintet (Rostropovich, Melos Quartett, DG)
Sibelius: Symphony Nr. 5 (Karajan, DG)
Khachaturian: Symphony Nr. 2 (Järvi, Chandos)
Nielsen: Choral works (Segerstam, Chandos)
Beethoven: Missa Solemnis (Karajan, DG)
Bantock: A Celtic Symphony, A Hebridean Symphony (Handley, Hyperion)

Box-set: Atterberg's symphonies (cpo)
I could have selected half of these myself and thought of the Atterberg for my boxed set choice or the complete Tubin symphonies.
Title: Re: Desert Island Discs
Post by: NikF on May 04, 2017, 10:39:27 PM
More difficult than I imagined.

Brahms: Piano Concerto No.1 In D Minor - Pollini/Thielemann/Staatskapelle Dresden.
Brahms: Symphonies Nos. 3 & 4 - Abbado/Berlin Phil.
Stravinsky: Apollo/Agon/Orpheus - Craft/LSO.
Bartok: Piano Concertos 1, 2 & 3 - Anda/Fricsay/Radio-Symphonie-Orchester Berlin.
Ravel: Gaspard de la Nuit - Michelangeli (BBC Legends 1959) Chamber Works - Kantorow/Muller/Rouvier.
Mahler 6: Horenstein/Stockholm Phil.
Prokofiev: Piano Concertos - Krainev/Kitajenko/Moscow Phil.
Debussy: Preludes 1 - Michelangeli.

Box - Shostakovich: String Quartets - Borodin Quartet.

No luxury item? Huh...

I'll do one featuring beat music later. ;D
Title: Re: Desert Island Discs
Post by: Turner on May 04, 2017, 10:41:38 PM
Quote from: NikF on May 04, 2017, 10:39:27 PM
More difficult than I imagined.

Brahms: Piano Concerto No.1 In D Minor - Pollini/Thielemann/Staatskapelle Dresden.
Brahms: Symphonies Nos. 3 & 4 - Abbado/Berlin Phil.
Stravinsky: Apollo/Agon/Orpheus - Craft/LSO.
Bartok: Piano Concertos 1, 2 & 3 - Anda/Fricsay/Radio-Symphonie-Orchester Berlin.
Ravel: Gaspard de la Nuit - Michelangeli (BBC Legends 1959)
Mahler 6: Horenstein/Stockholm Phil.
Prokofiev: Piano Concertos - Krainev/Kitajenko/Moscow Phil.
Debussy: Preludes 1 - Michelangeli.

Box - Shostakovich: String Quartets - Borodin Quartet.

No luxury item? Huh...

I'll do one featuring beat music later. ;D

An extremely great set indeed. I could easily substitute one of my choices with it. There are some major performance differences from the Krainev/Kitayenko/Frankfurt RSO set.
Title: Re: Desert Island Discs
Post by: NikF on May 04, 2017, 10:44:30 PM
Quote from: Turner on May 04, 2017, 10:41:38 PM
An extremely great set indeed. I could easily substitute one of my choices with it. There are some major performance differences from the Krainev/Kitayenko/Frankfurt RSO set.

I wasn't aware of that, although the Frankfurt RSO set is on my 'to buy' list due to someone (Mirror Image?) speaking highly of it.
Title: Re: Desert Island Discs
Post by: NikF on May 05, 2017, 01:44:36 AM
And catering to the hoi polloi...

Joe Pass: Virtuoso.
Duke Ellington: Masterpieces.
Brubeck: Time Out.
The Ronettes: Presenting the Fabulous Ronettes featuring Veronica.
Steely Dan: Can't Buy a Thrill.
American Graffiti OST
Beach Boys: Sunflower.
Artie Shaw & His Gramercy Five (Don't Take Your Love From Me)

Box: Louis Armstrong -  The Complete RCA Victor Recordings.
Title: Re: Desert Island Discs
Post by: James on May 05, 2017, 02:33:31 AM
Quote from: James on May 03, 2017, 03:10:56 PM
I used to listen to this show .. i'll do art music now, maybe popular music later ..

Bartok, 6 SQs (Juilliard, Sony, 2 discs)
Bach, Brandenburg Ctos (Pinnock, Archiv, 2 discs)
Bach, Partitas (Gould, Sony, 2 discs)
Wagner, Overtures & Preludes (Various, DG, 2 discs)
Faure, Works for Pno (Doyen, Erato, 2 discs)
Stravinsky, Apollo/Agon/Orpheus (Craft, Naxos)


8 popular music selections, albums/discs  ..

Jan Hammer, The First Seven Days
Charlie Parker with Strings
Jeff Beck, Blow by Blow
Funkadelic, Mothership Connection
Shakti, Natural Elements
Miles Davis, Live at the Plugged Nickel
Weather Report, Mysterious Traveller
Led Zeppelin, Physical Graffiti

Classical Boxes? Could pick any of these and be extremely happy on an island .. all great.

Webern/Boulez (3 discs)
Stravinsky Works (22 discs)
Bach/Chapuis (14 discs)
Gould/Bach (38 discs, 4 dvds)
Schiff/Bach (12 discs)
Dowland/O'Dette (5 discs)
Title: Re: Desert Island Discs
Post by: NorthNYMark on May 05, 2017, 10:14:11 AM
Quote from: NikF on May 04, 2017, 10:39:27 PM
More difficult than I imagined.

Brahms: Piano Concerto No.1 In D Minor - Pollini/Thielemann/Staatskapelle Dresden.
Brahms: Symphonies Nos. 3 & 4 - Abbado/Berlin Phil.
Stravinsky: Apollo/Agon/Orpheus - Craft/LSO.
Bartok: Piano Concertos 1, 2 & 3 - Anda/Fricsay/Radio-Symphonie-Orchester Berlin.
Ravel: Gaspard de la Nuit - Michelangeli (BBC Legends 1959) Chamber Works - Kantorow/Muller/Rouvier.
Mahler 6: Horenstein/Stockholm Phil.
Prokofiev: Piano Concertos - Krainev/Kitajenko/Moscow Phil.
Debussy: Preludes 1 - Michelangeli.

Box - Shostakovich: String Quartets - Borodin Quartet.

No luxury item? Huh...

I'll do one featuring beat music later. ;D

Nice list (and probably the one with the most overlap with mine). The Bartok Piano Concertos might have been my very next pick.
Title: Re: Desert Island Discs
Post by: Karl Henning on May 05, 2017, 10:27:47 AM
Just a note that I am interpreting this as eight pop/rock discs which are perennial favorites of mine.  Why?  Taking the premise of being stranded on a desert island with eight pop/rock albums, how should I prevent growing sick even of Abbey Road?  But of course, this is all fun, so . . .

(And keeping the eight to eight discs, no doubles)

Fleetwood Mac, Tusk
Jeff Beck, You Had It Coming
Jethro Tull, Minstrel in the Gallery
Ian Anderson, Homo erraticus
Frank Zappa, Freak Out! (which has seriously grown on me in its remastered glory)
Captain Beefheart, Spotlight Kid/Clear Spot
Thelonious Monk Plays Duke Ellington
Chas Mingus, The Saint and the Sinner Lady

Bonus box: The Beatles Mono
Title: Re: Desert Island Discs
Post by: Mahlerian on May 05, 2017, 10:36:49 AM
Trying to go for a broad range of repertoire and ensemble types...

Lassus: Lagrime de San Pietro (Herreweghe)
Monteverdi: Vespers of 1610 (Boston Baroque)
Bach: Motets (Gardiner)
Mozart/Brahms: Clarinet Quintets (Berlin Soloists)
Debussy: Preludes Book II (Zimerman)
Schoenberg: Piano Concerto, Schoenberg/Webern/Berg: Piano Pieces (Uchida/Boulez)
Stravinsky: Threni, Requiem Canticles (Herreweghe)
Takemitsu: Garden Rain etc.

Boxed set: Tennstedt conducts Mahler Symphonies
Title: Re: Desert Island Discs
Post by: NorthNYMark on May 05, 2017, 10:58:39 AM
Since I didn't add a non-classical list above:

Pop/Rock:

King Crimson, Red
Joe Jackson, Night & Day
Talk Talk, Spirit of Eden
Kate Bush, The Sensual World
Genesis, A Trick of the Tail
Cousteau, Cousteau
Seal, Seal
Roxy Music, Avalon

Boxed Set: King Crimson, Starless  (Live 1973)

Jazz:

Cannonball Adderley, Something Else
Tina Brooks, True Blue
Anthony Williams, Life Time
John Coltrane, A Love Supreme
Andrew Hill, Point of Departure
Cecil Taylor, Conquistador
William Parker Quartet, O'Neil's Porch
Duke Ellington, Masterpieces by Ellington

Boxed set: Miles Davis, The Complete Columbia Album Collection
Title: Re: Desert Island Discs
Post by: Archaic Torso of Apollo on May 05, 2017, 11:48:50 AM
Quote from: k a rl h e nn i ng on May 05, 2017, 10:27:47 AM

Jethro Tull, Minstrel in the Gallery

A Tull album would probably have been my #9. Though I would find it hard to decide between Aqualung and Songs from the Wood.

It would be fun to break down the Desert Island lists even further (chamber, early music, baroque, post-1950, solo piano, etc.). The possibilities are endless.
Title: Re: Desert Island Discs
Post by: NikF on May 05, 2017, 07:13:31 PM
Quote from: NorthNYMark on May 05, 2017, 10:14:11 AM
Nice list (and probably the one with the most overlap with mine). The Bartok Piano Concertos might have been my very next pick.

It does indeed overlap. And your choice of Szell/Curzon for the Brahms PC would also have been mine at one stage. I've told this story many times, but... An ex girlfriend was (mostly) responsible for introducing me to classical music. She was sure I'd like Brahms, but I just wasn't open to his work. I tried so hard, but I didn't like it. My ex was determined ("But Brahms is very manly music! So it should appeal to you!" :laugh:) and her patience finally paid off when she let me hear the Szell/Curzon. It's still a recording I find wonderful.
Title: Re: Desert Island Discs
Post by: NorthNYMark on May 05, 2017, 07:26:27 PM
Quote from: NikF on May 05, 2017, 07:13:31 PM
It does indeed overlap. And your choice of Szell/Curzon for the Brahms PC would also have been mine at one stage. I've told this story many times, but... An ex girlfriend was (mostly) responsible for introducing me to classical music. She was sure I'd like Brahms, but I just wasn't open to his work. I tried so hard, but I didn't like it. My ex was determined ("But Brahms is very manly music! So it should appeal to you!" :laugh:) and her patience finally paid off when she let me hear the Szell/Curzon. It's still a recording I find wonderful.

LOL--very cool story!
Title: Re: Desert Island Discs
Post by: vandermolen on May 06, 2017, 12:37:52 AM
My chamber music selection:

Bloch: SQ No.1 (an epic work)
Shostakovich: Piano Quintet
Shostakovich: Piano Trio
Vaughan Williams: Violin Sonata (a late, craggy masterpiece IMHO)
Vaughan Williams:SQ No.2 'For Jean on her Birthday'
Weinberg: Piano Quintet
Schnittke: Piano Quintet
Cesar Frank: Violin Sonata in A
Title: Re: Desert Island Discs
Post by: springrite on May 12, 2017, 02:25:46 AM
Quote from: Thatfabulousalien on May 12, 2017, 01:58:22 AM


Xenakis - Orchestral Works (because I love practically all Xenakis, it's a matter of quantity for a box)

I don't have that much Xenakis (one not so big box and a few others, totally 10 or 12). They also have the advantage of annoying the neighbors and drive away household pests.
Title: Re: Desert Island Discs
Post by: Holden on May 12, 2017, 02:11:19 PM
Couldn't remember if I'd replied to this thread - obviously not.

Classical Music:

Beethoven Pastoral Symphony - Bruno Walter Columbia SO

Liszt Transcendental Etudes - Claudio Arrau

Brahms PC 2 Richter, Leinsdorf

Beethoven Piano Sonatas - Serkin on M&A (so many choices here but his Waldstein won me over).

Schubert Symphonies 8&9 Sinopli

Rachmaninov preludes & etudes tableaux - Richter

Beethoven PC 4&5 Gilels, Ludwig

Verdi Requiem Pryce, Cossotto, Pavarotti, Ghiaurov, von Karajan, La Scala Milan.

Box set: Rubinstein Collection - not because its large but because its so good.

Pop, Rock, etc.

Dire Straits - Communique

Pink Floyd - Wish You Were Here

Peter Gabriel - So

Crowded House - Recurring Dream (a best of type of album)

Eagles - Hell Freezes Over

Grace Jones - Nightclubbin

Pink Floyd - The Wall (movie version)

The Greatest Voices of the Century - a cheap 2 CD compilation of many of the radio classics of the 20s, 30s, 40s, including Eddy/McDonald, Tauber, McCormack, Bjorling, etc. The music could possibly be classed as the original classical vocal crossover.

Box Set: That's Entertainment 6 CD set of the best from the MGM Musicals. There is also a Warner Bros version but MGM won out here.
Title: Re: Desert Island Discs
Post by: PaulSC on May 13, 2017, 02:07:19 PM
Let's see,  this might keep me happy on the island. Several of these are double-CDs (there's even a triple),  but I've picked a relatively compact bonus box,  so maybe it balances out? 

André Isoir/Fretwork - Roberday: Les Fugues et Caprices / L. Couperin: Simphonies, Fantaisie & Duos

Masaaki Suzuki/Bach Collegium Japan - J.S. Bach: St. Matthew Passion

Paavali Jumppanen - Beethoven: Piano Sonatas, Opp. 31, 78, 79, 81a, 90

Eric Huebner - Schumann: Kreisleriana, Op. 16 / Carter: Night Fantasies / Stravinsky: 3 Movements from Pétrouchka

Antonio Barbosa - Chopin: Complete Mazurkas

Florestan Trio/Stirling/Hosford - Brahms: Piano Trios, Horn Trio,  Clarinet Trio

Ed Spanjaard/Nieuw Ensemble/Various - Ferneyhough: La Chúte d'Icare, Superscriptio, Intermedio Alla Ciaccona, Études Transcendentales, Mnemosyne

Blum/Vigeland/Williams - Morton Feldman: Why Patterns? / Crippled Symmetry

Bonus box set:
Artemis Quartet - Beethoven: Complete String Quartets
Title: Re: Desert Island Discs
Post by: vandermolen on May 15, 2017, 05:29:59 AM
Quote from: PaulSC on May 13, 2017, 02:07:19 PM
Let's see,  this might keep me happy on the island. Several of these are double-CDs (there's even a triple),  but I've picked a relatively compact bonus box,  so maybe it balances out? 

André Isoir/Fretwork - Roberday: Les Fugues et Caprices / L. Couperin: Simphonies, Fantaisie & Duos

Masaaki Suzuki/Bach Collegium Japan - J.S. Bach: St. Matthew Passion

Paavali Jumppanen - Beethoven: Piano Sonatas, Opp. 31, 78, 79, 81a, 90

Eric Huebner - Schumann: Kreisleriana, Op. 16 / Carter: Night Fantasies / Stravinsky: 3 Movements from Pétrouchka

Antonio Barbosa - Chopin: Complete Mazurkas

Florestan Trio/Stirling/Hosford - Brahms: Piano Trios, Horn Trio,  Clarinet Trio

Ed Spanjaard/Nieuw Ensemble/Various - Ferneyhough: La Chúte d'Icare, Superscriptio, Intermedio Alla Ciaccona, Études Transcendentales, Mnemosyne

Blum/Vigeland/Williams - Morton Feldman: Why Patterns? / Crippled Symmetry

Bonus box set:
Artemis Quartet - Beethoven: Complete String Quartets
Interesting choices of which I know very few.
Title: Re: Desert Island Discs
Post by: PaulSC on May 15, 2017, 12:25:39 PM
Quote from: vandermolen on May 15, 2017, 05:29:59 AM
Interesting choices of which I know very few.

Well,  probably a mix of the highly familiar and the downright obscure. Or do you mean that I've picked unknown recordings of known repertoire?  It's a very different game if we just choose musical works. Having to specify performers raises the stakes considerably.

The trickiest pick for me was maybe the Huebner recital. I knew I wanted Kreisleriana,  but it doesn't fill a disc,  so it was a matter of picking a performance I loved (Huebner's is top-five if not quite top-of-the-heap) and a pairing that was desert-island worthy. I'm not a huge fan of the solo piano Petrouchka movements,  but Carter's Night Fantasies clinched it for me.
Title: Re: Desert Island Discs
Post by: TheGSMoeller on May 17, 2017, 05:29:54 PM
Non-classical list...

Beatles: White Album
David Bowie: The Rise and Fall Of Ziggy Stardust And The Spiders From Mars
Tom Waits: Frank's Wild Years
Ray Lynch: No Blue Thing
Bjork: Vespertine
Natalie Merchant: Ophelia
Aphex Twin: Richard D James Album
Ween: The Mollusk
Sigur Ros: Med Sud I Eyrum Vid Spilum Endalaust
Belle and Sebastian: Girls in Peacetime Want to Dance
Emmylou Harris: Wrecking Ball
Title: Re: Desert Island Discs
Post by: ComposerOfAvantGarde on May 17, 2017, 07:24:32 PM
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Tried to have only single discs, except for the 2CD Wagner recording in the middle......

If I were to choose a box set as well I would choose Boulez Oeuvres Complètes....but that does mean I'd have a duplicate of Répons and Dialogue de l'ombre double..........

I might substitute that duplication with some Scelsi or Furrer or Trevor Wishart's 'Red Bird' or something like that. Not sure yet.
Title: Re: Desert Island Discs
Post by: TheGSMoeller on May 17, 2017, 07:49:19 PM
Quote from: jessop on May 17, 2017, 07:24:32 PM
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I like Jacobs' frenetic, but full of life take on Mozart's symphonies. Nice choice, jessop.
Title: Re: Desert Island Discs
Post by: ComposerOfAvantGarde on May 17, 2017, 08:26:14 PM
Quote from: TheGSMoeller on May 17, 2017, 07:49:19 PM
I like Jacobs' frenetic, but full of life take on Mozart's symphonies. Nice choice, jessop.
Me too. I think his unique interpretative choices make this stand out amongst all the rest already in existence. And I love what he does here.
Title: Re: Desert Island Discs
Post by: vandermolen on May 17, 2017, 11:26:28 PM
Quote from: PaulSC on May 15, 2017, 12:25:39 PM
Well,  probably a mix of the highly familiar and the downright obscure. Or do you mean that I've picked unknown recordings of known repertoire?  It's a very different game if we just choose musical works. Having to specify performers raises the stakes considerably.

The trickiest pick for me was maybe the Huebner recital. I knew I wanted Kreisleriana,  but it doesn't fill a disc,  so it was a matter of picking a performance I loved (Huebner's is top-five if not quite top-of-the-heap) and a pairing that was desert-island worthy. I'm not a huge fan of the solo piano Petrouchka movements,  but Carter's Night Fantasies clinched it for me.
I meant that I don't know much of the music. I included particular performances myself but no need for anyone else to do so.
Title: Re: Desert Island Discs
Post by: vandermolen on May 17, 2017, 11:27:31 PM
Quote from: TheGSMoeller on May 17, 2017, 05:29:54 PM
Non-classical list...

Beatles: White Album
David Bowie: The Rise and Fall Of Ziggy Stardust And The Spiders From Mars
Tom Waits: Frank's Wild Years
Ray Lynch: No Blue Thing
Bjork: Vespertine
Natalie Merchant: Ophelia
Aphex Twin: Richard D James Album
Ween: The Mollusk
Sigur Ros: Med Sud I Eyrum Vid Spilum Endalaust
Belle and Sebastian: Girls in Peacetime Want to Dance
Emmylou Harris: Wrecking Ball
Don't know most of these but totally agree with Beatles White Album.
Title: Re: Desert Island Discs
Post by: TheGSMoeller on May 18, 2017, 03:50:21 AM
Quote from: Thatfabulousalien on May 17, 2017, 09:36:42 PM
Dude, are you me??  :o

It's possible. my avatar for the longest time was of a sock monkey, hence the title of Monkey Greg, so there's also that.  8)

But regardless, you obviously have great taste in music.
Title: Re: Desert Island Discs
Post by: vandermolen on September 25, 2017, 04:08:02 AM
Shostakovich: Symphony 4
Shostakovich: Symphony 11 '1905'
Bruckner: Symphony 9 (Rattle with finale)
Bax: Symphony 3
Vaughan Williams: A London Symphony (1920)
Miaskovsky: Symphony 17
Havergal Brian: Symphony 8
Sibelius: Tapiola
Title: Re: Desert Island Discs
Post by: André on October 30, 2017, 02:11:12 PM
Here's mine - for now! In no particular order:

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By far the best interpretation of these two much neglected works. Outstanding singing and sound.
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My introduction to Hindemith. Perfect.
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The 6th, in the original lp set that was my introduction to the work.
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The 8th. Not my first disc of the work, but the only one that has never wavered from the top position ever since I bought the set when it was first issued.
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The 8th again. A truly explosive disc (lp in those days).
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Klemperer's is not the most exciting version, but it towers above all others by its refusal to play to the gallery.
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I'd still choose this one even though Gedda is not my first choice.

Oops ! 10 already. That's harder than I thought it would be.
Title: Re: Desert Island Discs
Post by: André on October 30, 2017, 02:13:57 PM
Quote from: vandermolen on May 03, 2017, 12:31:21 AM
My apologies! I did search 'Desert Island Discs' in the search facility but nothing came up and I'd forgotten that I'd shown off about my mention on the programme. Think it was probably VW rather that Schoenberg! Interesting choices.

I, too, searched for the same 3 words today and only got directed to hundreds of WAYLT entries.  Todd helpfully provided me with this thread's link.
Title: Re: Desert Island Discs
Post by: Jay F on October 30, 2017, 05:15:55 PM
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1. Before I listened to classical much, I would buy movie music. I thought for some reason that this would have the Kramer v. Kramer theme. It didn't, but I came to love it anyway.


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2. How could anything be this good, and I'd never heard it? This was in 1987, maybe, my very first set of Mahler CDs, to go with my second CD player. I was so tired of buying my old pop/rock LPs on CDs. Classical came along at just the right time.

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3. Schubert's Quintet D956. I have five unmarked versions in iTunes that I downloaded when I participated in a shootout here a few years back. Each is one long file that includes all the movements. They're marked K1 (52:40), K2 (53:51), K3 (53:36), K4 (55:14), and K5 (52:53). If anyone has any idea who's doing which version, I'd love to know. OTOH, I love the piece so much, I'm happy listening to all the versions.


[asin]B000A5B25W[/asin]4. I did not like Beethoven's Piano Sonatas until I heard this one disc. I had bought Gilels, Kempff twice, Goode, Gould, and others, and the music didn't pierce the ear-brain barrier. And then this disc came out, and I loved it. Now there's a box set with all of Lewis' sonatas.


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5. One of the ones that convinced me that yes, I really do like classical music.


[asin]B000EBD84U[/asin]6. More movie music. I have the earlier edition.



[asin]B000F3T7RE[/asin]7. This is all I can think of now. I still have to consider chamber music, which I became more familiar with in this century. I love Shostakovich's String Quartets in particular. I can listen to this box set for days on end (I have the first edition; I don't think there was a remastering). It suits my mood. I wish the Jerusalem Quartet would record more of DSCH.
Title: Re: Desert Island Discs
Post by: amw on October 30, 2017, 06:59:18 PM
Quote from: Jay F on October 30, 2017, 05:15:55 PM
NO PICTURE
3. Schubert's Quintet D956. I have five unmarked versions in iTunes that I downloaded when I participated in a shootout here a few years back. Each is one long file that includes all the movements. They're marked K1 (52:40), K2 (53:51), K3 (53:36), K4 (55:14), and K5 (52:53). If anyone has any idea who's doing which version, I'd love to know. OTOH, I love the piece so much, I'm happy listening to all the versions.
K1 (https://www.prestoclassical.co.uk/classical/products/8019648--schubert-string-quintet-in-c-major-d956) (can't believe this is out of print already lol)
K2 (https://www.prestoclassical.co.uk/classical/products/8032695--schubert-death-and-the-maiden-string-quintet-in-c-major)
K3 (https://www.amazon.com/String-Quintet-C-Quartettsatz-Schubert/dp/B00000239E)
K4 (https://www.prestoclassical.co.uk/classical/products/7960427--schubert-string-quintet-in-c-major-d956)
K5 (https://www.hyperion-records.co.uk/dc.asp?dc=D_CDH55305)
Title: Re: Desert Island Discs
Post by: Jay F on October 31, 2017, 06:54:29 AM
Quote from: amw on October 30, 2017, 06:59:18 PM
K1 (https://www.prestoclassical.co.uk/classical/products/8019648--schubert-string-quintet-in-c-major-d956) (can't believe this is out of print already lol)
K2 (https://www.prestoclassical.co.uk/classical/products/8032695--schubert-death-and-the-maiden-string-quintet-in-c-major)
K3 (https://www.amazon.com/String-Quintet-C-Quartettsatz-Schubert/dp/B00000239E)
K4 (https://www.prestoclassical.co.uk/classical/products/7960427--schubert-string-quintet-in-c-major-d956)
K5 (https://www.hyperion-records.co.uk/dc.asp?dc=D_CDH55305)
Thank you so much. That was my favorite blind listening experience.
Title: Re: Desert Island Discs
Post by: milk on November 09, 2017, 02:03:13 AM
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