The mother of all essential,desert island,favourite,top 10,top 3 etc list things.

[EdgeleyRob]

Just a bit of fun,hope I haven't started a war or anything,and yes I will get a life.
So,who is the your favourite composer.
Only one rule,you can take the complete works of one,and only one,composer to the desert island,simples.
I would certainly find it difficult to live without the music of Mendelssohn,Brahms,Britten,Elgar and many others.
However, for me it would have to be Ralph Vaughan Williams.

[antongould]

For me it would have to be Beethoven .......

[jayne lee wilson]

Apart from going mad with indecision, I have to ask will there be a half-decent hifi there? If so, then it's Bruckner.

If it's portable, mini or table-top - Haydn.

Didn't break any rules did I..?

[Serial_Apologist]

Bela Bartok

[Hornspieler]

Mozart - by a country mile.

HS

[Pianorak]

Haydn - by a few nautical miles. But ask me again tomorrow . . .

[DublinJimbo]

Beethoven, without any shadow of a doubt.

[EdgeleyRob]

Apart from going mad with indecision, I have to ask will there be a half-decent hifi there? If so, then it's Bruckner.

If it's portable, mini or table-top - Haydn.

Didn't break any rules did I..?

For you Jayne the very best hifi equipment,but only one composer.

[Petrushka]

Gustav Mahler.

[Suffolkcoastal]

I'm with you ER, for me also it has to be Vaughan Williams.

[ostuni]

JS Bach

[AmpH]

Ralph Vaughan Mahler von Haydn Williams - Britten

[Eine Alpensinfonie]

Sir Edward Elgar. Who else?

[EdgeleyRob]

Ralph Vaughan Mahler von Haydn Williams - Britten

[jayne lee wilson]

For you Jayne the very best hifi equipment,but only one composer.

Oh good! Bruckner it is!!

Afetr a hard day's 8ths, you can always relax with the motets...

and think of the years you can spend comparing editions...