Five pieces you would be very sad never to hear again

[pastoralguy]

The piece of music I'd hate not to hear again is the music I've not heard yet. Despite a lifetime of listening and playing lots of music I realise I've only scratched the available music in the most perfunctory way. Ideally, if I was shipwrecked on an imaginary Desert Island with a power supply and a good hi-fi system, a large box of cds of music I don't know would be the perfect companion.

[Beef Oven!]

This is a fantastic thread!

The piece I'd like to never not hear agin is Mendelsshon's Italian symphony!

Especially by the Philharmoia conducted by Sinopoli.

[Bryn]

Cage: 4' 33"
Young: Composition 1960 #7
Bach: Goldberg Variations
Beethoven: Diabelli Variations
Satie: Socrate

[Lat-Literal]

As for favourites:

On reflection, I think there has to be an obvious five and a less than obvious five.

The obvious five are:

Vaughan Williams - Symphony No 2
Copland - Old American Songs
Faure - Requiem
Rachmaninov - Piano Concerto No 2

......and either a disc of the greatest hits of Delius or Puccini.

But a lot of people could have guessed at something along these lines.

[doversoul1]

Vivaldi: Four Seasons (I don’t hanker for it but I would be very sad if I couldn’t hear it again.)
Monteverdi: L’Orfeo
Kapsberger: Arpeggiata
Schmelzer: (any) violin sonata
Janacek: On An Overgrown Path

[Beef Oven!]

Great thread! Who wants to talk about the music of Bob Simpson or Richard Barrett anyway!

1) Bolero
2) Carmina Burana
3) Couldn't think of a third one
4) The Lark Ascending
5) Pictures From An Exibition

[gradus]

Arabesque - Schumann
Elgar 2
Mother Goose
Tristan
Banks of Green Willow

[antongould]

Bach - Goldberg Variations - Glenn Gould - 2nd version
Mahler Symphony No.2 - Abbado and Lucerne Festival Orchestra
Bruckner Symphony No.9 with 4th movement- Rattle and the Berliners.
Beethoven SQ 14 Op.131 - Quartetto Italiano
Elgar Cockaigne Overture - Solti London Phil.

[makropulos]

For today, then, here are five of my essentials.

Janacek: Cunning Little Vixen
Mozart: Marriage of Figaro
Elgar: Symphony No. 2
Brahms: Clarinet Quintet
Bach: B minor Mass

[Petrushka]

Tough question and like others I'm inclined to choose particular recordings of my chosen pieces.

Wagner: Die Meistersinger von Nurnberg Staatskapelle Dresden/Karajan
Mahler: Symphony No 2 Concertgebouw/Haitink (Christmas Day 1984)
Elgar: Symphony No 1 LPO/Solti
Bruckner: Symphony No 9 VPO/Karajan (Salzburg 25/7/1976)
Wagner: Der Ring des Nibelungen VPO/Solti

It's much more interesting to read of other people's enthusiasms for certain pieces/recordings as possible inspiration for further exploration oneself.

[EdgeleyRob]

This is so difficult

Vaughan Williams - Symphony No 9
Ireland - Cello Sonata
Elgar - Symphony No 2
Alkan - Etudes Op.39
Shostakovich - String Quartet No 7

and so many others

[Pabmusic]

Dittersdorf: The Fall of Phaëton
Barber: Knoxville, Summer of 1915
Berwald: Sinfonie Singulière
Suk: A Fairytale
Finzi: Dies Natalis

That's a first list of very many, though I shan't post them!

[Pabmusic]

Well, maybe one more:

Sibelius: En Saga
Shostakovich: Piano Concerto No. 2
Finzi: Earth and Air and Rain
Copland: Appalachian Spring
Barber: Violin Concerto

[Pabmusic]

All right, then:

Ravel: Ma Mère l'Oye
Wagner: Siegfried-Idyll
Prokofiev: Violin Concerto No. 2
R. Strauss: Four Last Songs
Josef Strauss: Delirien

[agingjb]

Mahler: Das Lied von der Erde
Ravel: String Quartet
Mendelssohn: Octet
Elgar: Cello Concerto
Beethoven: String quartet 130, with 133 (Grosse Fuge) ending