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Post by julesd68 on Jun 10, 2015 10:11:38 GMT
What would be your top 10 desert island discs, classically speaking?
Most of my top 10 picks itself, only had to think about a couple of them.
In no particular order and I'm not going to get bogged down listing individual recordings ...
Faure Requiem
Bach Partita no 2
Fantasia on a theme of Thomas Tallis
Rimsky Korsakov - Scheherazade
Allegri - Miserere
Rachmaninov - Piano Concerto no 2
Rachmaninov - Symphony 3
Bruch - Violin Concerto 1
Ravel - Gaspard de la Nuit
Tchaikovsky - Violin Concerto
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Post by pinkie on Jun 10, 2015 18:10:59 GMT
I'll make a start Double violin concerto - Bach Scherezade - RK - Orchestra de la Suisse Normande Le Nozze de Figaro (mrs S as "suzanna") Son of God Mass - Whitbourn Peer Gynt (Grieg) - sorry, I just like it Romeo & Juliette suite - Tchaikovsky (first classical music I took a girlfriend to one valentines) 3rd Symphony - Beethoven (can the box of 9 count?) L'estro Armonico - Vivaldi Violin Concerto - Stravinsky (KYC - so I get the Walton on the other side  ) New World Symphony (Dvorjak - 'ot from 'th'oven - my interest in classical really started at Uni with advert music. Might also choose Lakme Duet, or Pearl Fishers...) Enigma Variation - Elgar Violin concerto - Mendelssohn - Menuin But I could change my mind tomorrow. I'll have a think which 2 to take out  |
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Post by julesd68 on Jun 11, 2015 10:01:59 GMT
Great stuff. Nothing wrong with a bit of Peer Gynt!
I really need to get a copy of the Bach double - do you have any vinyl recommendations for this?
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Post by dvh on Jun 11, 2015 10:37:41 GMT
Ahh, there's too many I like!
OK.for a kick-off:
Beethoven's 7th Symphony
Schubert's String Quartets
Haydn's String Quartets
Elgar Cello Concerto
Satie Gnossienes
Chopin Nocturnes
Handel Concerto Grossi
Vivaldi Four Seasons
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Post by MartinT on Jun 11, 2015 10:51:14 GMT
In no ranking order...
Mahler Symphony No. 2
Beethoven Symphony No. 9
Mozart Requiem
Vivaldi Gloria
Poulenc Stabat Mater
Shostakovich Symphony No. 13
Grieg Piano Concerto
Bruckner Symphony No. 9
Glass Violin Concerto No. 1
Durufle Requiem
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Post by pinkie on Jun 11, 2015 11:41:08 GMT
Ahh, there's too many I like! OK.for a kick-off: Beethoven's 7th Symphony Schubert's String Quartets Haydn's String Quartets Elgar Cello Concerto Satie Gnossienes Chopin Nocturnes Handel Concerto Grossi Vivaldi Four Seasons Yeah - you're telling me. Realised I have no Wagner, nor Choral on that list. And could happily pinch the 7th, Schubert Quartets, and Elgar Cello from yours. And I missed "La Wally" - anyone wanting to get into Opera - try getting a DVD of "Diva" - french with sub-titles - another key influence in my interest in music - the first film I saw at Uni film club. |
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Post by pinkie on Jun 11, 2015 11:48:31 GMT
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Post by julesd68 on Jun 11, 2015 17:00:35 GMT
I was listening to Accardo playing Bruch yesterday - quite superb and a very underrated violinist IMO ...
Point taken with the Oistrakh recording! Will add to my wants list ...
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Post by jandl100 on Jul 17, 2015 7:00:16 GMT
A minor thread resurrection as I have only just spotted this thread!
Top 10 .... impossible of course, but off the top of my head ....
Shostakovich 10th symphony (Neeme Jarvi)
Shostakovich violin concerto #1 (Erxleben)
Shostakovich 24 piano preludes and fugues (Petrushansky)
Brahms 2nd and 3rd symphonies (Bruno Walter)
Bruckner 7th symphony (Tintner)
Mahler 2nd symphony (hmmm, possibly Kaplan with the LSO)
Beethoven string quartets opp. 59/1 and 131 (Amadeus Quartet)
Bach B Minor Mass (Rilling)
Sibelius 4th symphony (Rozhdestvensky)
Handel Israel in Egypt (Preston)
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Too much Shostakovich?  Hmm, possibly. 
Argh - no Mozart or Vaughan Williams or Schubert! Disaster.  Maybe I'd sacrifice a couple of the Shosties. Then again, maybe not. A Top 20 would be much easier! |
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Post by ChrisB on Jul 17, 2015 7:12:31 GMT
You can't have twenty, ten is already far too many for a 'proper' Plomley desert island!
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Post by MartinT on Jul 17, 2015 7:24:07 GMT
I didn't state performances, may do that later.
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Post by jandl100 on Jul 17, 2015 7:24:48 GMT
50 would be better. 5,000 would be even betterer. |
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Post by jandl100 on Jul 17, 2015 7:27:13 GMT
I also sneaked in some double CDs.  |
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Post by MartinT on Jul 17, 2015 7:29:32 GMT
Cheat!
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Post by jandl100 on Jul 17, 2015 7:35:53 GMT
Looking at your list, Martin, you can get Mahler 2 on 1 CD, but more often on 2 (and they tend to be the best performances, I think). |
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Post by jandl100 on Jul 17, 2015 7:51:56 GMT
You can't have twenty, ten is already far too many for a 'proper' Plomley desert island! Well, I think the whole desert island disc concept is deeply flawed. Very few music lovers would be satisfied with a mere 8 discs. The concept was simply engineered to fit into a 28 minute radio program slot!
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Post by ChrisB on Jul 17, 2015 8:10:22 GMT
Surely the point isn't about satisfaction, but rather, it's about survival!
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Post by jandl100 on Jul 17, 2015 9:43:12 GMT
Hmm, yes, good point!
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Post by MartinT on Jul 17, 2015 13:10:07 GMT
Looking at your list, Martin, you can get Mahler 2 on 1 CD, but more often on 2 (and they tend to be the best performances, I think). I know
I thought it funny that the CD format was designed to fit a performance of Beethoven's 9th onto a single disc and then RCA released a performance on a double CD!
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which is good, but I also have 
Hmm, possibly. 
