Eight discs to be isolated with

[Vox Humana]

I'm cheating. About half of mine are 2-CD sets.

Debussy: Images, Pour le Piano, etc (Livia Rev)
Michael Haydn: Requiem pro Defuncto Archiepiscopo Sigismundo (King’s Consort/King)
Tallis: Latin Church Music (Taverner Consort & Choir/Parrott)
Tudor Church Music by Gibbons, Sheppard, Tallis and White (Clerkes of Oxenford/Wulstan)
Purcell: Funeral Music for Queen Mary (Winchester Cathedral Choir/Brandenburg Consort/Baroque Brass of London/Hill)
Clara Schumann: Complete Songs (Fontana/Eickhorst)
Herbert Howells: Choral Music (Rodolfus Choir/Allwood)
Bach at Naumburg (Robert Clark)

[Eine Alpensinfonie]

Strauss: Eine Alpensinfonie - RPO/Kempe
Vaughan Williams: A Sea Symphony - LSO/Previn
Puccini: La Boheme - Tebaldi/Bergonzi/Serafin
Elgar: The Apostles - Hallé/Elder
Tchaikovsky: The Maid of Orleans - Rozhdestvensky
Mozart: Symphony no 40 - VPO/Furtwängler (Warner Japanese pressing)
Sibelius: Symphony no 1 - Hallé/Barbirolli (Pye version)
Beethoven: Symphony no 9 - Bayreuth Festival Orchestra/Furtwängler

[akiralx]

Delius: Paris, Idylle, Brigg Fair, Piano Concerto - Shelley/RSNO/Davis
Elgar: Sym 2 - LSO/Tate
Elgar: Violin Concerto - Kennedy/LPO/Handley
Mahler: Sym3 - Pittsburgh SO/Honeck
Tchaikovsky: Sym 2 - GSO/Jarvi
Vaughan Williams: A London Sym - LSO/Thomson
Vaughan Williams: Sym 6 - LPO/Haitink
Chopin Recital - Fray

[LMcD]

Elgar: 1st Symphony - Boult/BBC SO (1976 Prom)
Mozart: Piano Concerto No. 24 K491 - Brendel/Marriner/ASMF
Eagles: Hotel California
Benny Goodman: Sing Sing Sing (Carnegie Hall concert)
Sibelius: 5th Symphony - Karajan/BPO
Vaughan Williams: Tallis Fantasia - Elder/Halle
Ravel: String Quartet - Ebene Quartet
(arr.)Canteloube: Bailero - Gomez/Handley/RLPO

[BBMmk2]

Oh how o hate these! I like so many that I really find it hard to choose!

[Flay]

Strauss: Eine Alpensinfonie - RPO/Kempe

I've just ordered the Chicago Symphony Orchestra / Barenboim version for £2.68 including p&p, admittedly 2nd hand.

It'd better be good at that price...

[LMcD]

Oh how o hate these! I like so many that I really find it hard to choose!

It wasn't easy, but most of the pieces I chose on this occasion have strong non-musical associations (birth of our son, holidays, concerts attended, and so on) in addition to their intrinsic musical merits. I could just as easily have chosen 8 works by English composers, 8 by Mozart, or 8 vocal or non-vocal numbers from the 1930s and 1940s. It was very hard to omit Brahms!

[Eine Alpensinfonie]

I've just ordered the Chicago Symphony Orchestra / Barenboim version for £2.68 including p&p, admittedly 2nd hand.

It'd better be good at that price...

It’s a good one IMO.
Do you have an off-air one of that mega Manchester performance?

[Flay]

Do you have an off-air one of that mega Manchester performance?

Yes.....

[Flay]

Yes.....

Dropped for you in a box

(hopefully)

[Eine Alpensinfonie]

Dropped for you in a box

(hopefully)

[richardfinegold]

I was actually in a situation once where I was involuntarily whittled down to just a few favorite lps. In my mid twenties I had stored the bulk of my collection temporarily in my basement, but a few albums were laying next to the system to be played. A summer storm then flooded the basement and ruined the bulk of my collection. I was to poor at the time to buy any replacements and made do with the radio and those few records. I still remember what they were, as they were the only ones I could play for years.

Bach- Brandenburgs- Ristenpart conducting
Beethoven 7-Solti/CSO
Beethoven Op.110/111 Sonatas. Gary Graffman
Debussy-La Mer Barbirolli/Halle
Grieg/Schumann PCs. Ogden/Berglund forgot the Orchestra
Mahler 1/2 Walter/N.Y. Phil
Schubert 5/8. Reiner/CSO
Tchaikovsky Symphony 5 Monteux/Boston

After a while I would have killed for some Chopin, some chamber music, and a host of other lost recordings, but looking back, it wasn’t a bad little collection

[LMcD]

I was actually in a situation once where I was involuntarily whittled down to just a few favorite lps. In my mid twenties I had stored the bulk of my collection temporarily in my basement, but a few albums laying next to the system to be played. A summer storm then flooded the basement and ruined the bulk of my collection. I was to poor at the time to buy any replacements and made do with the radio and those few records. I still remember what they were, as they were the only ones I could play for years.

Bach- Brandenburgs- Ristenpart conducting
Beethoven 7-Solti/CSO
Beethoven Op.110/111 Sonatas. Gary Graffman
Debussy-La Mer Barbirolli/Halle
Grieg/Schumann PCs. Ogden/Berglund forgot the orchestra
Mahler 1/2 Walter/N.Y. Phil
Schubert 5/8. Reiner/CSO
Tchaikovsky Symphony 5 Monteux/Boston

After a while I would have killed for some Chopin, some chamber music, and a host of other lost recordings, but looking back, it wasn’t a bid little collection

The New Philharmonia, I think.

[Edgy 2]

Oh how o hate these! I like so many that I really find it hard to choose!

Never easy these,mine was a ‘most listened to during lockdown’ rather than a desert island list,that would be quite different