The desert island disc
Posted by: graham55 on 31 January 2005
So, your entire music collection is about to be destroyed. You can save one disc/album, and it will be the ONLY one that you can keep.
In other words, you only have one CD/album to listen to for all time. What would it be?
Simple in my case (as long as I forget Maria Callas in Tosca with de Sabata, not to mention Carlos Kleiber doing wonders with Beethoven's Fifth and Seventh Symphonies).
It's got to be Jeff Buckley's "Grace".
I had the privilege of seeing Jeffrey Scott Buckley four times before he died so unfairly. His only completed CD is a thing of wonder.
G
In other words, you only have one CD/album to listen to for all time. What would it be?
Simple in my case (as long as I forget Maria Callas in Tosca with de Sabata, not to mention Carlos Kleiber doing wonders with Beethoven's Fifth and Seventh Symphonies).
It's got to be Jeff Buckley's "Grace".
I had the privilege of seeing Jeffrey Scott Buckley four times before he died so unfairly. His only completed CD is a thing of wonder.
G
Posted on: 31 January 2005 by toad
Liz Phair - Exile In Guyville.
Whenever i petulantly think "Oh I've got nothing to listen to" I always seem to end up playing this. So I guess it would be ideal should the real situation arise.
Kev.
Whenever i petulantly think "Oh I've got nothing to listen to" I always seem to end up playing this. So I guess it would be ideal should the real situation arise.
Kev.
Posted on: 31 January 2005 by bazz
How about a teeny-weeny boxed set of five CDs in a not much bigger than one-CD sized case? That would be Mitsuko Uchida's set of Mozart's pianos sonatas on Philips.
One LP would have to be Joe Cocker, Sheffield Steel.
One LP would have to be Joe Cocker, Sheffield Steel.
Posted on: 31 January 2005 by graham55
bazz
You are (probably intentionally) missing the point. You're not allowed to have five CDs, whether by Mitsuko Uchido or otherwise, and you certainly can't have Joe Cocker in addition!
It's THE ONE CD to last for all time.
G
You are (probably intentionally) missing the point. You're not allowed to have five CDs, whether by Mitsuko Uchido or otherwise, and you certainly can't have Joe Cocker in addition!
It's THE ONE CD to last for all time.
G
Posted on: 31 January 2005 by bazz
Oh, I thought CD/album meant one LP as an alternative.
I wil bow to your iron will and remove Mitsuko from my travel bag. If there is space on the liferaft for one LP it's Joe, otherwise Kelly Joe Phelps, Shine Eyed Mister Zen on CD.
I wil bow to your iron will and remove Mitsuko from my travel bag. If there is space on the liferaft for one LP it's Joe, otherwise Kelly Joe Phelps, Shine Eyed Mister Zen on CD.
Posted on: 31 January 2005 by Earwicker
I'd probably take Alfred Brendel's latest recording of Beethoven's last three sonatas, but it'd be a VERY long and difficult decision.
EW
EW
Posted on: 31 January 2005 by Huwge
If it is an LP then Milt Jackson "Memories of Thelonius Sphere Monk" and if a CD, then disc 1 of the remastered "Rock of Ages" by The Band (although it might change into London Calling by The Clash at the last minute)
Posted on: 01 February 2005 by Lomo
Graham, yur are not fair. Under the pretence of nominating one recording you actually mentioned three. Now everyone else is doing this.
I find that my musical tastes are changing througout my life span and as such I have now arrived at a period where the piano is the instrument I enjoy listening to the most.
As such, " Best Loved Piano Classics", Pianist Moura Lympany on EMI would be my current choice with a bottomless esky of Castlemain XXXX
I find that my musical tastes are changing througout my life span and as such I have now arrived at a period where the piano is the instrument I enjoy listening to the most.
As such, " Best Loved Piano Classics", Pianist Moura Lympany on EMI would be my current choice with a bottomless esky of Castlemain XXXX
Posted on: 01 February 2005 by graham55
Lomo
That's a fair cop. But I was just trying to show how I got to my final choice. Maybe it would be different next week.
G
That's a fair cop. But I was just trying to show how I got to my final choice. Maybe it would be different next week.
G
Posted on: 01 February 2005 by CPeter
Joy Division - Unknown Pleasures
Would fit my mood exactly if I had only one record left.
Peter
Would fit my mood exactly if I had only one record left.
Peter
Posted on: 01 February 2005 by Basil
Just One! Man that's tough!
Nope! Can't do it, I'd go with my record collection!
Nope! Can't do it, I'd go with my record collection!
Posted on: 01 February 2005 by jjbrinklow
Well for me it would be a CD that has stood the shortish test of time that I have been into music. Unlike most albums in my collection I love every song and never skip tracks. Nirvana Unplugged in New York.
If I could get a copy on Vinyl that would be even better.
If I could get a copy on Vinyl that would be even better.
Posted on: 01 February 2005 by graham55
jjb
That is indeed a fabulous recoreding.
G
That is indeed a fabulous recoreding.
G
Posted on: 01 February 2005 by graham55
Basil
That's cheating and you wouldn't want to slide into the acid vat that's destroying all your LPs and CDs. So you can save one only! Which will it be?
G
That's cheating and you wouldn't want to slide into the acid vat that's destroying all your LPs and CDs. So you can save one only! Which will it be?
G
Posted on: 01 February 2005 by Basil
Spoilsport!
Ok then, one record, just the one, one single piece of music......
MMMMMMMMmmmmmmmmm!
That Acid is looking mighty tempting!
One piece of music.
Gustav Mahler
Symphony No.2 "Resurrection"
Edith Mathis : Doris Soffel
London Philharmonic Choir
London Philharmonic Orchestra
Klaus Tennstedt
Ok then, one record, just the one, one single piece of music......
MMMMMMMMmmmmmmmmm!
That Acid is looking mighty tempting!
One piece of music.
Gustav Mahler
Symphony No.2 "Resurrection"
Edith Mathis : Doris Soffel
London Philharmonic Choir
London Philharmonic Orchestra
Klaus Tennstedt
Posted on: 01 February 2005 by graham55
Basil
What a wonderful choice! I went to a concert in the RFH just over a year ago in which Gilbert Kaplan conducted this very symphony. He's an "amateur" and only conducts this one piece. It was a quite amazing performance.
But, for me, if it had to be Mahler, it would have to be the Ninth Symphony - preferably Bruno Walter conducting the VPO in 1938 just a few days before the lights went out in Europe for some years.
G
What a wonderful choice! I went to a concert in the RFH just over a year ago in which Gilbert Kaplan conducted this very symphony. He's an "amateur" and only conducts this one piece. It was a quite amazing performance.
But, for me, if it had to be Mahler, it would have to be the Ninth Symphony - preferably Bruno Walter conducting the VPO in 1938 just a few days before the lights went out in Europe for some years.
G
Posted on: 01 February 2005 by Camlan
Joni Mitchell - Hejira
Posted on: 01 February 2005 by AndyFelin
Anything by Norah Jones.
No ignore that, only joking.
My one record would have to be my favourite Dylan album: Blood on the Tracks.
Andy
No ignore that, only joking.
My one record would have to be my favourite Dylan album: Blood on the Tracks.
Andy
Posted on: 01 February 2005 by graham55
Andy
I suspect that, if you were marooned on a desert island with Snorah, there might be compensations.
G
I suspect that, if you were marooned on a desert island with Snorah, there might be compensations.
G
Posted on: 01 February 2005 by AndyFelin
You've got something there Graham, as long as she didn't sing...
Andy
Andy
Posted on: 01 February 2005 by graham55
Andy
I'm sure that you could find ways to distract her!
Anyway, I'm off to the pub to watch the football. But I shall be put off my stride, I think, by thinking of being alone on a desert island with Norah.
G
I'm sure that you could find ways to distract her!
Anyway, I'm off to the pub to watch the football. But I shall be put off my stride, I think, by thinking of being alone on a desert island with Norah.
G
Posted on: 01 February 2005 by Martin D
Hejira Joni Mitchell
Posted on: 01 February 2005 by Basil
quote:
What a wonderful choice! I went to a concert in the RFH just over a year ago in which Gilbert Kaplan conducted this very symphony. He's an "amateur" and only conducts this one piece. It was a quite amazing performance.
I have such admiration for Kaplan. Although I have to say, I'm not a huge fan of his interpretation of the Mahler second; you have got to admire his strength of character. He taught himself to conduct the symphony because he liked it so much! Respect!
quote:
But, for me, if it had to be Mahler, it would have to be the Ninth Symphony - preferably Bruno Walter conducting the VPO in 1938 just a few days before the lights went out in Europe for some years.
Bruno Walter is THE Mahler conductor in the ninth.
Posted on: 01 February 2005 by pe-zulu
Definitly: Die Kunst der Fuge,
- but which recording?
Either Gustav Leonhardt (DHM) or
Wolfgang Ruebsam (Philips) ,
probably the latter.
- but which recording?
Either Gustav Leonhardt (DHM) or
Wolfgang Ruebsam (Philips) ,
probably the latter.
Posted on: 01 February 2005 by Earwicker
Graham/Basil,
For me, if it HAD to be Mahler, it would be Das Lied von der Erde. Janet Baker in the alto part (naturally!)... can't make up my mind which recording. Probably the one with Haitink, J King as tenor.
Earwicker
For me, if it HAD to be Mahler, it would be Das Lied von der Erde. Janet Baker in the alto part (naturally!)... can't make up my mind which recording. Probably the one with Haitink, J King as tenor.
Earwicker
Posted on: 02 February 2005 by Basil
quote:
Definitly: Die Kunst der Fuge,
- but which recording?
What about Neville Marriner and the Academy of St Martins in the Field?