Your choice...what do you bring?

Question

If you were to be stranded on a deserted island, what 10 classical music recordings(albums/cds) would you take with you?

Mine:
1. Jacqueline Du Pre---Haydn/Boccherini Cello Concertos
2. Hilary Hahn---Schoenberg/Sibelius Violin Concertos
3. NY Phil. w/ Bernstein----Planets Suite
4. Chicago Symphony w/ Boulez---Firebird Suite
5. Rostropovich---Dvorak Cello Concerto/Tchaikovsky Rococo Variations
6. NY Phil. w/Bernstein---Symphonic Dances from West Side Story
7. Borodin Quartet---Shostakovich Complete Quartets
8. London Festival Orchestra---Janacek Suite for Strings
9. Pablo Casals---Bach Cello Suites
10. NBC Symphony Orchestra w/ Toscanini---Barber's Adagio for Strings

Hope you have fun and I await all of your answers.

Answer 1

What would be the power supply upon this Island? [I don't like the idea of pedalling to power an amplifyer]



(i) I. Stravinsky. "Symphony of Psalms. (any conductor but I. Stravinsky)

(ii)M. Dupre "Organ Concerto" (Any organist but myself)

(iii) J. S. Bach. "Mass in B Minor"(cond. J.E. Gardiner)

(iv) J. S. Bach "Magnificat" (ditto)

(v) C. Monteverdi "Orfeo" and a collection of Madrigals

(vi) C. V. Stanford "Anthems, Voluntaries for Cathedral worship"

(vii) C. Debussy. Preludes for Pianoforte.

(viii)J. Brahms "A German Requiem"

(ix)F. Poulenc "Gloria" "Concerto for Organ, Strings & Timpani"

(x) B. Britten "A War Requiem"



This certainly was not fun. I think only of what I don't have in my Island collection now!

Answer 2

Its 1:00 AM here and I need to go to sleep but I just have to say that Borodin Quartet---Shostakovich Complete Quartets would be on my list anytime it been one of my favorite recordings, first on LP later on CD, for at least 35 years. It makes me so happy that it still moves people.



Edit: Ah morning - now I can do this right

order implies nothing, I added DVDs too as rthe are also recordings.



Borodin Quartet---Shostakovich Complete Quartets



Wagner - Der Ring des Nibelungen (Complete Boulez/Pierre Chareau Ring Cycle) DVD



Richard Strauss - Der Rosenkavalier / Carlos Kleiber conductor DVD



Beethoven: The Complete Sonatas - Richard Goode



Tosca (1953) with Callas, di Stefano, Gobbi, cond:.de Sabata



Complete Webern / Boulez,



Berg: Violin Concerto / Gidon Kremer



Phillip Glass: Symphony no 6 / Davies (Conductor), Flanigan, Ginsburg



Beethoven: The String Quartets / Emerson String Quartet



Bach: Goldberg Variations / Simone Dinnerstein

Answer 3

My 10 classical 'Desert Island Discs' (at least today) would be (what about my non-classical ones?):



1. Beethoven: Symphony No 3 (Eroica) - Concertgebouw Orchestra/Kirill Kondrashin

2. Caldara: Maddalena ai piedi di Cristo - René Jacobs

3. The Music of Percy Grainger - Bournemouth Sinfonietta/Kenneth Montgomery

4. Mahler: Symphony No 9 - Berlin Philharmonic/John Barbirolli

5. Monteverdi: Vespers of 1610 - Nigel Rogers

6. Prokofiev: Romeo & Juliet - Royal Opera House/Mark Ermler

7. Stravinsky: Petrushka/Rite of Spring - Slavonic Philharmonic/K Gmug/K Pentel

8. Veljo Tormis: Works for Men's Voices - Svanholm Singers/Sofia Söderberg Eberhard

9. Vivaldi: Violin Concertos Op 8 - L'Europa Galante/Fabio Biondi

10. A cappella works of Eric Whitacre - Brigham Young Uni Singers/Ronald Staheli



I had to leave out some really amazing recordings to get this down to only 10!

Answer 4

Wow - how on earth am I going to be able to choose?

*Big breath* - here goes...



1. Carmina Burana [the mediaeval collection] (Phillip Pickett)

2. Gabrieli: Music for San Rocco (Paul McCreesh)

3. Monteverdi: Vespers (1610) (John Eliot Gardiner)

4. Vivaldi: Stabat Mater/Nisi Dominus (David Daniels)

5. Vivaldi: Oboe concertos (Alberto Bernardini)

6. Vivaldi: Bassoon concertos (Klaus Thunemann)

7. Zelenka: Trios for 2 oboes/bassoon (Dombrecht/Ebbinge/Bond)

8. Mozart: Piano concertos (Malcolm Bilson)

9. Haydn: "Sturm und Drang" symphonies (English Concert)

10. Beethoven: Piano concertos (Steven Lubin)



That was so DIFFICULT - but what a great question!

I'm afraid that I might be cheating a bit, too, as 1, 8, 9 and 10 are multiple disc sets...which means that really, I'll be on this desert island with close to 25 discs...



Hafwen x

Answer 5

Definitely the Planets Suite by Gustav Holst. I really enjoy many of holst's suites including the first and seconds suites for military band and the moorside suite. I have personally played the second suite in F and the Moorside suite and am going to be playing the fist suite in Eb soon. (i can't wait!)

I play tuba. ^^