Desert Island Discs

[richardfinegold]

Antal Dorati and the Detroit Symphony Bartok Miraculous Mandarin on Decca

[Richard Tarleton]

We've been here before http://www.for3.org/forums/showthrea...=Desert+island

I would today choose

Good grief - I'm amazed to see that 5 of my 8 are more or less the same....

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

Good grief - I'm amazed to see that 5 of my 8 are more or less the same....

I'm relieved that four years ago, I still had the same attitude as I have today - and the "if I could only take one" choice, of course, is the same.

As Edgey said towards the end of that original Thread that it might be updated to accommodate Forumistas' changing choices, would there be any objections to my merging the two DID Threads?

[BBMmk2]

I forgot to mention any RVW! I think it be David Hill's recording of Dona Nobis Pacem. Has to be the one work that has helped me an awful lot, in this past year.

[jayne lee wilson]

Roussel Symphony No.1 (Bollon)
Honegger Symphony No.4 (Luisi)
Martinu Symphony No.4 (Meister)

Bruckner Symphony No.2 (1877 Version, Venzago)
Bruckner Symphony No.4 (1874 version, Norrington)
Mozart Symphony No.29 (SWR/Norrington)
Haydn Symphony No.48; Symphony No.64 (HS/Fey)

LUXURY - Solar Powered Macbook
BOOK…Complete 12 Issues of “Your Cat” Magazine for any one year. But can I have a digital subscription instead…? And if you can have WiFi, why do you need books anyway....?
And then you realise you probably won't be lost for very long anyway and....

I guess we have to chuck out the WiFi for Desert Islands to serve any further aesthetic or fantastical purpose...

[AmpH]

Restricting myself to single Bach and Haydn choices .....

Hymn ' He who would Valiant be ' ( any good choir )
Elgar - Violin Concerto ( Zukerman / LPO / Barenboim )
RVW - A Sea Symphony ( Boult first recording )
Dusty Springfield - I only want to be with you
Genesis - Supper's Ready ( live version from Seconds Out )
Bach - Well Tempered Clavier ( Sviatoslav Richter )
Haydn - Symphony No 82 ( CMW / Harnoncourt )
Schumann - Dichterliebe ( Holzmair / Cooper )

Luxury - Zeiss 7 x 42 Dialyt Binoculars. Simply the best !

Book - Ideally, all 17 volumes of the wonderful ' Handbook of the Birds of the World '
but I'll settle for the rather more portable - Lars Jonsson ' Birds of Europe , with North Africa and the Middle East '

[EdgeleyRob]

I'm relieved that four years ago, I still had the same attitude as I have today - and the "if I could only take one" choice, of course, is the same.

As Edgey said towards the end of that original Thread that it might be updated to accommodate Forumistas' changing choices, would there be any objections to my merging the two DID Threads?

Not from me

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

Not from me

OK with you, Bbm?

[Pabmusic]

Going by the original Bbm idea (if I've got it right) of individual performances that hold significance:

Butterworth: The Banks of Green Willow (whichever performance was played, unannouced, about 1966, when there was no play in a test match due to rain; the most beautiful thing I'd ever heard - I was 13)

Josef Suk: A Fairytale (a Supraphon recording heard first about 1968)

Smetana: From Bohemia's Woods and Fields (ditto)

Borodin: Symphony 2 (Ansermet/ORSM - about 1971)

Simon & Garfunkel: The Boxer (1969 - the first 'pop' record I ever bought)

Harry Belafonte singing Mary's Boy Child (which I knew from the 1950s. I also knew that it was written by Jester Hairston, and that the arrangement on the Belafonte disc was beautiful - especially the clarinet solo)

Finzi: Clarinet Concerto (Michael Collins coming second in the first-ever Young Musician of the year. But the music was an eye (ear?) opener.

RVW: The Wasps Ov. (Cond. Sargent)

There's some particularly significant works, still dear to my heart.

[Beef Oven!]

OK with you, Bbm?

With recent experience in mind, may I suggest that consideration is given to renaming a duplication thread as II? It strikes me that although the subject matter may be the same, the discussion and feel (and often contributors) are different.

Of course I'm thinking of threads that are set up with innocent ignorance of the original thread and a while later than the original. For example, when I recently started up threads on Mahler 9 and Bruckner 6, I searched both in the respective composer sections and more generally, but could not see an existing thread. We wouldn't want new threads to be started mischievously!

[BBMmk2]

With recent experience in mind, may I suggest that consideration is given to renaming a duplication thread as II? It strikes me that although the subject matter may be the same, the discussion and feel (and often contributors) are different.

Of course I'm thinking of threads that are set up with innocent ignorance of the original thread and a while later than the original. For example, when I recently started up threads on Mahler 9 and Bruckner 6, I searched both in the respective composer sections and more generally, but could not see an existing thread. We wouldn't want new threads to be started mischievously!

If there is a duplication, I do not mind at all. I should have searched in the first place! Call this one DID II?

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

If there is a duplication, I do not mind at all. I should have searched in the first place! Call this one DID II?

Except that that would mean two Threads with very similar content, which would mean having to "summon up" both if anyone were looking for a particular list. "What You Listening To?" needed vols 2 & 3 because there were so many posts that it took ages for Forumistas to load - not the case here (yet). BeefO is right to suggest that if similarly-titled Threads have different "discussion and feel", they need retitling to differentiate them. But that's not what's happening here.

[french frank]

Butterworth: The Banks of Green Willow (whichever performance was played, unannouced, about 1966, when there was no play in a test match due to rain; the most beautiful thing I'd ever heard - I was 13)

I identify with that totally, Pabs - though I wouldn't choose it now for a DID. It occupies a little space somewhere inside me with several of the other pieces I chose but which I don't need to hear again. I might have added Bolero because my mother gave me a piano transcription of it and I (aged 9 or 10) could pick out the 'tune' on the piano, with one finger. It brings back a time and experience, but is no longer musically important.

[cloughie]

Going by the original Bbm idea (if I've got it right) of individual performances that hold significance:

Butterworth: The Banks of Green Willow (whichever performance was played, unannouced, about 1966, when there was no play in a test match due to rain; the most beautiful thing I'd ever heard - I was 13)

Josef Suk: A Fairytale (a Supraphon recording heard first about 1968)

Smetana: From Bohemia's Woods and Fields (ditto)

Borodin: Symphony 2 (Ansermet/ORSM - about 1971)

Simon & Garfunkel: The Boxer (1969 - the first 'pop' record I ever bought)

Harry Belafonte singing Mary's Boy Child (which I knew from the 1950s. I also knew that it was written by Jester Hairston, and that the arrangement on the Belafonte disc was beautiful - especially the clarinet solo)

Finzi: Clarinet Concerto (Michael Collins coming second in the first-ever Young Musician of the year. But the music was an eye (ear?) opener.

RVW: The Wasps Ov. (Cond. Sargent)

There's some particularly significant works, still dear to my heart.

There weren't many Banks of Green Willow available in 1966, but I would hazard a guess at LPO Boult on Decca!

[Pabmusic]

There weren't many Banks of Green Willow available in 1966, but I would hazard a guess at LPO Boult on Decca!

I rather suspect it was a reccording of a studio performance conducted by somebody like Stanford Roninson. But you're right - the only records issued by then were the Decca Boult and the even earlier Maurice Miles/Philharmonia.