Desert Island Discs

[Conchis]

I think you will find that is by the "genius" that is St Paul

Is there any way I can un-know this ?

I actually like the song: it has happy memories! :)

And I think McCartney is often despised for the wrong reasons: I'm not keen on his glad-handing persona but I think it takes talent to be able to write for several different audiences. Ob La Di, Yellow Submarine and that wretched Frog Chorus were written for chilldren and children tend to like them. People who come out with the line, 'How can the man who wrote Eleanor Rigby and Let It Be come out with crap like that?' are surely missing the point.....

[Richard Tarleton]

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... if I were to do a 'biographical' Desert Island Discs it might include -

Dowland : Fine Knacks For Ladies - in my childhood, relentlessly played on the lute by my father.

My intro to Dowland too - singing it (with others) in an inter-school singing contest aged about 11 . My real love of Dowland began about 4 years later with the Fantasia P1, on the first guitar LP I bought...I can play that in my head.....

I think I'd crave intimacy and the human voice, hence, only semi-autobiographically:

Schubert, Nacht und Träume - Ann Murray, Graham Johnson (sublime)
Strauss, Four Last Songs - Gundula Janowitz, BPO/Karajan
Bach D Minor Violin Partita - Rachel Podger (the Chaconne first encountered 50 years ago on the guitar)
Beethoven - String Quartet Op 131 (like Anton, I'd probably go for the Italians in the end)
Bach 6th Cello Suite - the first version I ever heard, on a wet night in Plymouth in 1971, was the Janos Starker - I was transfixed. I'll take that for old times sake.
Dvorak Cello Concerto - Alisa Weilerstein, Czech PO/Jiří Bělohlávek (first heard the work in Oxford in late 60s, fell deeply in love with it)
Bruckner 7th symphony - VPO/Karajan (a record of this, in fact the Klemperer, was my intro to Bruckner, again in Oxford in the late 60s - no going back from that. I had a ticket to see Klemperer conduct it, he cancelled through illness)
Bob Dylan Desolation Row - Dylan holds a special place in my life, this song reminds me of a particular turning point.

Book - Cold Comfort Farm, Stella Gibbons
Luxury - a pair of binoculars, to compile the island's avifauna

[BBMmk2]

With my contribution, I found it difficult to decided what to put on. I tried my best to keep to works that influenced my life. certainly, at prep school, we had a very good Director Music. He was really good about enthusing classical music. He played Respighi's Pini di roma. This will always be in my mind. As we were told to close our eyes and think what we thought what was happening. He of course played Pines of the Appian Way.

[jean]

Dowland : Fine Knacks For Ladies - in my childhood, relentlessly played on the lute by my father

That would be my first autobigraphical one, too - a 78 of Alfred Deller with Desmond Dupre, relentlessly played - but not, sadly, in person.

Then, also from my childhood, there might be:

HANDEL: The Trumpet Shall Sound (from Messiah) - This was the bit where I would wake up during those interminable performances by my father's choir and know we were near the end. Though that wasn't the only reason I liked it.

I'm working on the rest.

[subcontrabass]

HANDEL: The Trumpet Shall Sound (from Messiah) - This was the bit where I would wake up during those interminable performances by my father's choir and know we were near the end. Though that wasn't the only reason I liked it.

Was that with or without the Da Capo?

[Serial_Apologist]

Was that with or without the Da Capo?

Only after he became a film star.

[BBMmk2]

Only after he became a film star.

Could be Leonardo di Capo!

[LMcD]

Only after he became a film star.

Wasn't he Da Capo from the beginning?

[MrGongGong]

I actually like the song: it has happy memories! :)

And I think McCartney is often despised for the wrong reasons: I'm not keen on his glad-handing persona but I think it takes talent to be able to write for several different audiences. Ob La Di, Yellow Submarine and that wretched Frog Chorus were written for chilldren and children tend to like them. People who come out with the line, 'How can the man who wrote Eleanor Rigby and Let It Be come out with crap like that?' are surely missing the point.....

I'm sure it does bring back happy memories

BUT I'm not sure that you are right when you say "children tend to like them"

My reasons for objecting to McCartney are more to do with the nonsense he spouts about music, notation and his over inflated sense of his own significance
BUT there's room on the bus for all sorts

[Conchis]

I'm sure it does bring back happy memories

BUT I'm not sure that you are right when you say "children tend to like them"

My reasons for objecting to McCartney are more to do with the nonsense he spouts about music, notation and his over inflated sense of his own significance
BUT there's room on the bus for all sorts

Whisper it, but I'm not sure to what extent he is responsible for his 'orchestral' compositions. I've heard heavy hints that Carl Davis basically expands PM's musical ideas onto a wider canvas (and, presumably, is well-rewarded for doing so).

[Serial_Apologist]

Whisper it, but I'm not sure to what extent he is responsible for his 'orchestral' compositions. I've heard heavy hints that Carl Davis basically expands PM's musical ideas onto a wider canvas (and, presumably, is well-rewarded for doing so).

Richard Rodney Bennett had a big hand, at least in the scoring of the Liverpool Oratorio, if my memory serves me...

[Conchis]

Richard Rodney Bennett had a big hand, at least in the scoring of the Liverpool Oratorio, if my memory serves me...

That wouldn't surprise me.

I heard L.O. when it was a new work and thought it was bloody awful.

[Serial_Apologist]

That wouldn't surprise me.

I heard L.O. when it was a new work and thought it was bloody awful.

Wretched Rodney Bin-It then!

[EdgeleyRob]

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

I would today choose

RVW,Symphony No 9,Boult 1958
RVW,String Quartet No 2 ,Music Group of London
Elgar,Symphony No 2,Boult 70's
Shostakovich,String Quartet No 7,Fitzwilliam Qt
Alkan,Op 39 Etudes,Jack Gibbons
Ireland,Cello Sonata,Raphael Wallfisch
Mendelssohn,String Quartet Op 80,Henschel Qt
Weinberg,Piano Sonata No 2 ,Murray McLachlan

Which is not a lot different from my original list.
No room for prog rock,pop,so many British composers,Bach,Mozart,its impossible.

Luxury,you can keep the piano,it's too difficult I'll have a Sega Mega Drive with retro games

Book,Pabmusic's Butterworth biography when it's ready.

[cloughie]

Whisper it, but I'm not sure to what extent he is responsible for his 'orchestral' compositions. I've heard heavy hints that Carl Davis basically expands PM's musical ideas onto a wider canvas (and, presumably, is well-rewarded for doing so).

He gets by with a little help from his friends! I don't think he's ever hidden the truth of this, as indeed he acknowledges the
George Martin influence in his Beatles days.