Our Desert Island Eight Discs!

Posted by: u5227470736789439 on 10 August 2007

Our Desert Island Eight Discs!

To kick this off. Mine are

[1] Bach B Minor Mass, conducted by George Enescu

[2] Bach Goldbergs Variations, played by Helmut Walcha

[3] Beethoven String Quartet, opus 135, in F, played by the Adolf Busch Quartet

[4] Beethoven Eroica Symphony, played by the Philharmonia conducted by Otto Klemperer [Mono recording from 1954 or 1955?]

[5] Haydn Te Deum Laudamus, sung by the Boys Choir in Vienna

[6] Haydn Symphony No 103 in B flat. Concertgebeau Orchestra conducted by Colin Davis

[7]Schubert "Great C Major Symphony" BBC SO under Adrian Boult [live on BBC Legends from a Prom Concert in 1969].

[8] Mozart Piano Concert in C Minor. Edwin Fischer [piano solo], London Philharmonic under Laurence Colingwood.

Only eight please or the lists might become impossibly long if we chose everything we loved!

Kindrest regards from Fredrik

Posted on: 29 August 2007 by Whizzkid

I like the idea Naim_nymph a different set for different vistas

Dean..

Posted on: 29 August 2007 by Guido Fawkes

On a psychedelic island I would take the following 8 singles. I realise my choices weren't necessarily the A and B sides of real singles, but I'd sooner have See Emily Play than Candy And A Current Bun. All of the A and B sides were released on singles.

Father's Name Was Dad/Treacle Toffee World - Fire
Colours of My Mind/Magic In The Air - The Attack
Arnold Layne/See Emily Play - The Pink Floyd
Defecting Grey/Talking About The Good Times - The Pretty Things
Vacuum Cleaner/Bee Side - Tintern Abbey
My White Bicycle/Revoultion - Tomorrow
Hole In My Shoe/Paper Sun - Traffic
Save My Soul/Rumble On Mersey Square South - Wimple Winch

I've assumed I have the entire Beatles catalogue by default.

Posted on: 31 August 2007 by Whizzkid

On a Desert Island in the film Tron

Cybotron - Techno City
Kraftwerk - Computer World
Newcleus - Push The Button/I'm Not A Robot
Model500 - The Chase
Yellow Magic Orchestra - Computer Games
Joey Beltram - Energy Flash
Arpanet - Quantuum Transposition
Kraftwerk - The Man - Machine

Dean..

Posted on: 14 October 2007 by Gerontius' Dream

How many desert islands have the necessary power supply? However, in no particular order:

Beethoven: Hammerklavier Sonata, Brendel
Brahms: German Requiem, Klemperer
Verdi: Requiem, possibly Giulini
Vaughan Williams: Sea Symphony, Boult
Mozart: "Haydn" Quartets, Quartetto Italiano
Schubert: Die schone Mullerin, Fischer-Dieskau/Moore
English Madrigals: the Amaryllis Consort
Blas y Pridd: Plethyn (I bet not many of you know that)

Sorry J.S. Bach, I would have included your Mass in B minor, but I don't know whose version I would choose, and I would have to leave out one of the others.

Posted on: 14 October 2007 by Tam

quote:
Originally posted by Dai Compi:
Verdi: Requiem, possibly Giulini
Vaughan Williams: Sea Symphony, Boult

Out of curiosity, which ones? Giulini recorded the Requiem 5 times (though only 4 of the recordings are available, and one of those might now have been deleted - they're remarkably different) and Boult the Sea symphony at least twice.

regards, Tam

Posted on: 15 October 2007 by Gerontius' Dream

I do not know all the Giulini recordings of the Verdi Requiem. The only one I know well is that with Schwarzkopf, etc although I once heard one of the others on the radio (don't remember which).

I have three recordings of VW's Sea Symphony; the one by Boult is that with John Carol Case and forms part of the EMI set issued in the 70s. The other two are the Previn and Haitink.

All of these except the Haitink are on vinyl LP and in this format the Verdi at least is probably better than the CDs.

Posted on: 15 October 2007 by Tam

Thanks.

Truth be told I'm a little obsessive about Giulini in Verdi. The two BBC Legends requiems are well worth investigating. The mono one is probably the more thrilling performance, but the stereo has a lot going for it two (and a better coupling). Both have the advantage that they do not suffer the distortion of the EMI set.

regards, Tam

Posted on: 15 October 2007 by Colin Lorenson

So much music to have to leave out but these albums are a perennial delight

The Who - Who’s Next
Radiohead - OK Computer
Joni Mitchell - Hejira
Bill Frissell - Gone, Just like a train
Jonatha Brooke - Live
Talk Talk - Laughing Stock
Kenny Barron / Chalie Haden - Night and the City
Arvo Part - Te Deum – ECM New Series

No Beatles or Steely Dan as I know them so well I can replay them in my head any time I want to

Posted on: 16 October 2007 by Fernando Lezama

a little bit of all sorts:

1.- Gonzalo Rubalcaba & Charlie Haiden
2.- Porcupine Tree
3.- Tool - Amnesiac
4.- The Mesiah Choral
5.- Bach - Bradenburg Concert
7.- Keith Jarret - Kolb Concert
8.- Miles - Kind of Blue

Posted on: 16 October 2007 by Guido Fawkes

I suppose a copy of Happy to be on an Island (far away from Demis Roussos) by Alberto Y Los Trios Paranoias, which can be found on their IFOS (Italians From Out of Space) album is not really on.