Your Desert Island Discs

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George

#80
March 31, 2009, 06:43:06 AM
Someone had to do it -

Your 12 Desert Island Rock Albums

I thought I would be a bit nicer than just 8. That's just brutal.

DavidRoss

#81
March 31, 2009, 06:43:59 AM
Quote from: Sergeant Rock on March 31, 2009, 04:42:42 AM
I prefer marginally his Vienna 4th but for the island I'll need the 5th too and this is my favorite CD that couples the two symphonies.
That would be my choice for a single disc with Sibelius symphonies if I didn't have this:




8 single discs is tough!  The Talich has 95, 127, & 133.  I think it would be quite some time before I tired of all these.

Ack, I see we now must choose 8 pieces, not 8 discs.  That's even harder, for my 8 discs above contain 21 pieces.

"Maybe the problem most of you have ... is that you're not listening to Barbirolli." ~Sarge

"The problem with socialism is that sooner or later you run out of other people's money." ~Margaret Thatcher

springrite

#82
March 31, 2009, 06:46:14 AM
The ones I do not quite love yet may be my favorite in a few years. So I am not giving up ANY of my collection. Besides, my desert island is Australia!  ;D
Do what I must do, and let what must happen happen.

ChamberNut

#83
March 31, 2009, 08:01:51 AM
Quote from: Mn Dave on March 31, 2009, 06:30:57 AM
I'd totally take that to a C&W desert island.

The only thing I'd take to a C&W desert island is a loaded pistol, an arsenic pill or at least a samurai sword to commit seppuku.  ;D

jhar26

#84
March 31, 2009, 08:10:11 AM
Quote from: Sergeant Rock on March 31, 2009, 06:09:53 AM
What passes for "country" on today's radio and Billboard charts is a travesty.

Sarge
It's pop music (and poor pop music at that) sung by people who wear a cowboy hat.
Martha doesn't signal when the orchestra comes in, she's just pursing her lips.

Sergeant Rock

#85
March 31, 2009, 10:21:15 AM
Quote from: jhar26 on March 31, 2009, 08:10:11 AM
It's pop music (and poor pop music at that) sung by people who wear a cowboy hat.

Yes, exactly.

Sarge
the phone rings and somebody says,
"hey, they made a movie about
Mahler, you ought to go see it.
he was as f*cked-up as you are."
                               --Charles Bukowski, "Mahler"

Jay F

#86
March 31, 2009, 10:30:28 AM
Eight works (for now):

All by Bernstein:
Mahler - Symphony No. 6 on CBS (original release)
Mahler - Symphony No. 8 on CBS (original release)
Mahler - Symphony No. 7 on CBS (original release)
Mahler - Symphony No. 9 on CBS (original release)

Schubert - Beaux Arts Trio, two Piano Trios
Beethoven - Symphony No. 9 - Bohm
Mozart Piano Concerto 22, Perahia

Dundonnell

#87
March 31, 2009, 02:51:52 PM
Do you realise what you have started, Jeffrey?

There has been an outbreak of desert-islanding all over the forum ;D

jlaurson

#88
March 31, 2009, 05:15:33 PM Last Edit: March 31, 2009, 05:39:34 PM by jlaurson
Screw those rules... long live the new rules:

8 picks from the shelf. This includes reasonable sized sets (of one work, but not box sets) of two, three, maybe even four discs. Doesn't include a ring Cycle, though... since that's four works.

Love Mahler, but Mahler has no business being on a Desert Island. I want to survive, not go crazy. I need to nurture the spirit, not attack it.  ;)

I guess I accidentally picked 9. Well... we'll probably have to drop the Bruckner 5th, in that case.

Scarlatti, Keyboard Sonatas, Mikhail Pletnev -- Virgin Classics

Bach, Organ Works, Karl Richter -- DG

Haydn, Symphonies 45, 95, 98, Ferenc Fricsay, RIAS Orchestra -- DG

(Bruckner, Symphony No.5, Sergiu Celibidache, Munich Philharmonic -- EMI)

Bruckner, Symphony No.8, Guenter Wand, Berlin Philharmonic -- RCA

Wagner, Tristan & Isolde, Daniel Barenboim/Meier/Jerusalem -- Teldec

Shostakovich, Preludes & Fugues, Keith Jarrett -- ECM

Mozart, Piano Concertos 21 & 24, Clifford Curzon, Rafael Kubelik, BRSO -- Audite

Beethoven, Late String Quartets, Takacs Quartet -- Decca

Bogey

#89
March 31, 2009, 05:29:06 PM


Nice pick.
There will never be another era like the Golden Age of Hollywood.  We didn't know how to blow up buildings then so we had no choice but to tell great stories with great characters.-Ben Mankiewicz

Sergeant Rock

#90
March 31, 2009, 06:18:30 PM
Quote from: Bogey on March 31, 2009, 05:29:06 PM


Nice pick.

That Bruckner 8 was a given. But I was interested to see what other recordings Jens would pick. I might have guessed the Barenboim Tristan and possibly the Celibidache Bruckner but the others were a surprise.

Quote from: jlaurson on March 31, 2009, 05:15:33 PM
8 picks from the shelf. This includes reasonable sized sets (of one work, but not box sets) of two, three, maybe even four discs. Doesn't include a ring Cycle, though... since that's four works.

I think I could manage to get a Ring to the island on a technicality. Although it's divided into four parts, Wagner envisioned it as a unified work, even giving it a name, Der Ring des Nibelugen. And it can be bought complete, in one box. I might not get away with it, but I plan on trying  ;D

Sarge
the phone rings and somebody says,
"hey, they made a movie about
Mahler, you ought to go see it.
he was as f*cked-up as you are."
                               --Charles Bukowski, "Mahler"

Bogey

#91
March 31, 2009, 06:53:31 PM
Quote from: Sergeant Rock on March 31, 2009, 06:18:30 PM

I think I could manage to get a Ring to the island on a technicality. Although it's divided into four parts, Wagner envisioned it as a unified work, even giving it a name, Der Ring des Nibelugen. And it can be bought complete, in one box. I might not get away with it, but I plan on trying  ;D

Sarge

A more important question, "Who's gonna stop ya?" ;D

There will never be another era like the Golden Age of Hollywood.  We didn't know how to blow up buildings then so we had no choice but to tell great stories with great characters.-Ben Mankiewicz

George

#92
March 31, 2009, 07:05:42 PM
Classic, Bill!  :)

Jay F

#93
March 31, 2009, 07:27:24 PM
Quote from: jlaurson on March 31, 2009, 05:15:33 PM
Love Mahler, but Mahler has no business being on a Desert Island. I want to survive, not go crazy. I need to nurture the spirit, not attack it.  ;)
I find Mahler quite soul-nurturing. That may be its best quality.

Dundonnell

#94
March 31, 2009, 07:59:02 PM
Quote from: Sergeant Rock on March 31, 2009, 06:18:30 PM
That Bruckner 8 was a given. But I was interested to see what other recordings Jens would pick. I might have guessed the Barenboim Tristan and possibly the Celibidache Bruckner but the others were a surprise.

I think I could manage to get a Ring to the island on a technicality. Although it's divided into four parts, Wagner envisioned it as a unified work, even giving it a name, Der Ring des Nibelugen. And it can be bought complete, in one box. I might not get away with it, but I plan on trying  ;D

Sarge

As far as I am concerned, you can do what ever you like now, Sarge, and take as many combinations of records/boxed sets/individual pieces you like :)

Having just finished trying to make sense of the names of all the orchestras based in Moscow I am off to a desert island with no bloody music at all ;D ;D

George

#95
March 31, 2009, 08:05:27 PM
Quote from: Dundonnell on March 31, 2009, 07:59:02 PM
As far as I am concerned, you can do what ever you like now, Sarge, and take as many combinations of records/boxed sets/individual pieces you like :)

In that case, I'll take these 8 boxes:

Richter in Prague
Annie Fischer Beethoven Sonatas
Celibidache Bruckner EMI set
Vegh Stereo Beethoven Quartets
Ashkenazy Chopin Decca Box
Gould JS Bach Box
Rudy/Jansons Rachmaninov Piano Concerto Box
Borodin QT Shostakovich Quartets Melodiya

:)

vandermolen

#96
April 01, 2009, 03:54:29 AM
Quote from: Dundonnell on March 31, 2009, 07:59:02 PM
As far as I am concerned, you can do what ever you like now, Sarge, and take as many combinations of records/boxed sets/individual pieces you like :)

Having just finished trying to make sense of the names of all the orchestras based in Moscow I am off to a desert island with no bloody music at all ;D ;D

Everyone other than myself is cheating  0:)
"Courage is going from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm" (Churchill).

'The test of a work of art is, in the end, our affection for it, not our ability to explain why it is good' (Stanley Kubrick).

jlaurson

#97
April 01, 2009, 06:35:23 AM
I've picked 8 already, and I'd loathe to rid myself of another of my choices. But assuming we're all going to the same wacky island, someone's got to bring this:

Franco

#98
April 01, 2009, 07:17:18 AM
Elliott Carter: String Quartets Nos.1-4 / Elegy Arditti String Quartet

Mozart / Brahms: Clarinet Quintets David Shifrin, Eugene Drucker, and Emerson String Quartet

Faure Requiem Op.48 / Durufle Requiem Op.9 Judith Blegen, James Morris, and Robert Shaw

Beethoven: The Complete Sonatas Richard Goode

Mahler: Symphony No. 5 Leonard Bernstein, and Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra

Stockhausen: Stimmung Paul Hillier, and Thatre of Voices

Haydn: Complete Piano Trios Beaux Arts Trio

Kind of Blue by Miles Davis

bhodges

#99
April 01, 2009, 07:27:23 AM
Quote from: Franco on April 01, 2009, 07:17:18 AM
Elliott Carter: String Quartets Nos.1-4 / Elegy Arditti String Quartet

Mozart / Brahms: Clarinet Quintets David Shifrin, Eugene Drucker, and Emerson String Quartet

Faure Requiem Op.48 / Durufle Requiem Op.9 Judith Blegen, James Morris, and Robert Shaw

Beethoven: The Complete Sonatas Richard Goode

Mahler: Symphony No. 5 Leonard Bernstein, and Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra

Stockhausen: Stimmung Paul Hillier, and Thatre of Voices

Haydn: Complete Piano Trios Beaux Arts Trio

Kind of Blue by Miles Davis


Now that is one beautifully balanced list.  Love it that the Stockhausen made it (a fantastic recording).

--Bruce
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