Desert Island with a Twist

[Wanderer]

On what?

On that island.

[Wanderer]

I would be the skeleton in the sand by the palm tree.   

With the illegible overhanging sign creaking solemnly in the fragrant tropical air, echoes of Daphnis et Chloé reverberating throughout the island. #RIP 🌴🌊

[Florestan]

On that island.

I mean, on what music? 

[Biffo]

I would have no difficulty surviving on vocal music alone. Even though I don't listen to it as much as I used to I could probably survive on opera alone though I would need lots of it.

[prémont]

This thread is absurd. Vocal music can't make it up for missing instrumental music. The problem is not that there isn't a large body of outstanding vocal music to enjoy, but that there is so much unique instrumental music which one doesn't want to miss. This is about the music and not in the first hand about the scoring.

[Florestan]

This thread is absurd.

Any thread involving a desert island is absurd. Absurdity can be fun nevertheless. 

[Szykneij]

With the illegible overhanging sign creaking solemnly in the fragrant tropical air, echoes of Daphnis et Chloé reverberating throughout the island. #RIP 🌴🌊

Any thread involving a desert island is absurd. Absurdity can be fun nevertheless. 

Yes, we can't take everything too seriously, especially the way things are today. The thread is a fun diversion.

[Wanderer]

Yes, we can't take everything too seriously, especially the way things are today. The thread is a fun diversion.

Indeed! My mental image when I read your post was that scene in Pirates of the Caribbean with the pirates' skeletons hanging in the harbour's entrance as Jack Sparrow arrives. 😁

[Wanderer]

This thread is absurd. Vocal music can't make it up for missing instrumental music. The problem is not that there isn't a large body of outstanding vocal music to enjoy, but that there is so much unique instrumental music which one doesn't want to miss. This is about the music and not in the first hand about the scoring.

I think that the incentive for this thread was exactly the fact that some people here are all too willing to reject a great deal of sublime music because of the (vocal/choral) scoring. 🤷‍♂️

[Wanderer]

I mean, on what music? 

It's an island where only vocal music is allowed, no? 😉

[prémont]

I think that the incentive for this thread was exactly the fact that some people here are all too willing to reject a great deal of sublime music because of the (vocal/choral) scoring. 🤷‍♂️

Except that I'm not that interested in opera as a genre, it's also the common way of singing - romantic music in particular, as I described above, which puts me off. HIP has done Early music a great favor by changing that practice.

[DaveF]

Can I have Bach performed by Glenn Gould?

[Florestan]

Can I have Bach performed by Glenn Gould?

You mean the humming? 

[Madiel]

Almost my entire pop music collection is safe.

[DaveF]

You mean the humming? 

That's the best bit - shame all that tinkly counterpoint stuff drowns it out.

[Florestan]

That's the best bit - shame all that tinkly counterpoint stuff drowns it out.

Well, you can have it then. 

[Iota]

Can I have Bach performed by Glenn Gould?

(.. the Gould-berg Variations for Coloratura Baritone?)

[Wanderer]

Can I have Bach performed by Glenn Gould?

Not since the Glenn Gould De-Vocalizer!

[Szykneij]

Not since the Glenn Gould De-Vocalizer!

Awesome!

[Jo498]

I would have no difficulty surviving on vocal music alone.

Neither would I. I might overall prefer and certainly listen to more instrumental music but although fewer works I'd miss St Matthew Passion, Messiah, Winterreise, Don Giovanni etc. as much on a complementary island as I'd miss Beethoven symphonies, Haydn quartets or Bach keyboard suites etc. on the vocal-only island.

Even though I don't listen to it as much as I used to I could probably survive on opera alone though I would need lots of it.

I would not want mainly opera, in fact, if I had to pick between opera and non-opera vocal music I'd go for the latter.