Top ten musicians of all time

[Beef Oven!]

What makes you think there will be any humans left to be top ten musicians once global warming (effectively left unchecked) gets a real hold?

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[Honoured Guest]

My Top Ten "Favourite TV Programmes?" Answers of All Time

1) Nancy Banks-Smith http://www.theguardian.com/media/200...io.television1
2), 3), 4), 5), 6), 7), 8), 9), 10) The respondents are as yet unborn

[Bryn]

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Not something that easy to sleep off.

[Nick Armstrong]

Anyway composers are musicians are they not?

I suspect ERob didn't take composers into account, or else R Vaughan Williams Esq would have occupied at least the top 3 spots

[Hornspieler]

An impossible task.

For myself, I can only name ten outstanding musicians that I have been priviledged to encounter during my own professional career. I have listed them in alphabetical order:

Julian Bream (Guitar)
Ida Haendel (Violin)
Ernest Hall (Trumpet and Professor at RCM)
Anthony Halstead (Horn Player, Keyboard player, Conductor)
Jascha Horenstein (Conductor and Terrorist!)
Julius Katchen (Pianist)
Cleo Laine (Supreme vocalist embracing all kinds of musical performance)
Yehudi Menuhim (Violinist, Conductor and Teacher)
Mistislav Rostropovitch (Cellist and Conductor)
Dr Bruno Walter (Conductor, Friend of Mahler)

As I wrote above, an impossible thread to answer but, reading through the posts so far, it does give us all an awarenes of the musical preferences, tastes and loathings of our fellow message boarders so should help us not to cause offence to others.

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[Dave2002]

Not in any order, but based on live performances I offer the following:

Duke Ellington
Eugen Jochum
Valery Gergiev (if only for Shostakovich 4)
Bernard Haitink
Shura Cherkassky
John Harle
Leonard Bernstein
Vladimir Ashkenazy
John Ogdon
Victoria de los Angeles

Totally impossible but these are some of the people I've admired in concert halls and also in recordings.

A few extra could include

Oscar Peterson
Georg Solti
Gennady Rhozdestvensky
Adrian Boult

Tut ... didn't read the instructions - "of all time" should include Beethoven, Mozart, Bach and a number of others, which would knock most of our selections off the top perch.

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

Umghh (the caveperson who first thought it might be a good idea to adapt the sounds of communication into aesthetic pleasing stand-alone "pieces")

Vlarrg (the neolithic person from a thousand years later who had the idea of "joining-in" with another person indulging in Music by adding complementary rhyhms o played by knocking pebbles together. A tragic case: s/he was stoned for his/her pains - and boy/girl were there pains! - setting the trend for rock Musicians ever since).

Charon and Ptraci (the Egyptian Musicians who together discovered that humans could control the different sounds that were produced by conches and reeds).

The nipper from Nippur who (2000 years BCE) first had the idea that sounds could be represented by graphic symbols

Pythagoras

Bertrand de Scunthorpe (who accidentally invented the Canon when he misunderstood someone when they told him "it's your round")

Guido of Arezzo

Bach

Elisha Grey

[teamsaint]

I assumed the thread to mean musicians of all kinds, whether composers, performers, teachers, whatever.

Won't bore anybody with a top 10, but two musicians, not classical, who made an enormous impact on me, in terms of what music could do, and how it could be were

Adrian Borland and Alex Harvey.
Both combined skill, energy, vision, and great humanity, all rolled up in an obvious love of their art. Still get an incredible buzz from their music.

[Beef Oven!]

I assumed the thread to mean musicians of all kinds, whether composers, performers, teachers, whatever.

Won't bore anybody with a top 10, but two musicians, not classical, who made an enormous impact on me, in terms of what music could do, and how it could be were

Adrian Borland and Alex Harvey.
Both combined skill, energy, vision, and great humanity, all rolled up in an obvious love of their art. Still get an incredible buzz from their music.

As I am the chap that started the thread, I am best placed to guess what was in the mind of the initiator, in relation to your assumption as to what the thread means.

So here goes.

1) The thread means nothing, and nothing is meant by it.

2) Top ten musicians of all time includes composers (let's say Bach for example), instrumentalists (let's say Jimmy Page), conductors (Karajan, if you like), singer song-writer folk legends (Alex Harvey) or anyone else remotely connected to music in any way shape or form, even tenuously (Tony Blackburn).

Farshteyn? Good.

[teamsaint]

As I am the chap that started the thread, I am best placed to guess what was in the mind of the initiator, in relation to your assumption as to what the thread means.

So here goes.

1) The thread means nothing, and nothing is meant by it.

2) Top ten musicians of all time includes composers (let's say Bach for example), instrumentalists (let's say Jimmy Page), conductors (Karajan, if you like), singer song-writer folk legends (Alex Harvey) or anyone else remotely connected to music in any way shape or form, even tenuously (Tony Blackburn).

Farshteyn? Good.

John Peel worth a shout then.

(very philosophical BTW, Beefy .)

Edit: And he wouldn't be on my list, but I would think that Alexis Korner might make a few peoples list.

[DublinJimbo]

Cleo Laine (Supreme vocalist embracing all kinds of musical performance)

An abiding memory is her recording of Walton's Façade, still the benchmark version.

[MrGongGong]

Today it would be

(in no order)

John Cage
Pauline Oliveros
Yoshikazu Iwamoto
Ryoji Ikeda
Trevor Wishart
Alvin Lucier
La Monte Young
Olivier Messiaen
Morton Feldman
Jonathan Harvey

[Beef Oven!]

Today it would be

(in no order)

John Cage
Pauline Oliveros
Yoshikazu Iwamoto
Ryoji Ikeda
Trevor Wishart
Alvin Lucier
La Monte Young
Olivier Messiaen
Morton Feldman
Jonathan Harvey

So LY is yesterday's news?

[MrGongGong]

So LY is yesterday's news?

LY ?

[Beef Oven!]

I said LMY, pay attention!