Desert Island Discs

[Pabmusic]

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.

Preserve me from things that are musically important. :)

[LMcD]

I rather suspect it was a reccording of a studio performance conducted by somebody like Stanford Roninson.

According to Wikipedia (yes, I know....) there were 2 recordings prior to 1966: Maurice Miles and the Philharmonia in 1946 and Boult with the LPO in 1954.

[cloughie]

That would figure!

[Pabmusic]

According to Wikipedia (yes, I know....) there were 2 recordings prior to 1966: Maurice Miles and the Philharmonia in 1946 and Boult with the LPO in 1954.

You can trust that Wiki entry - I wrote it. :)

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

You can trust that Wiki entry - I wrote it. :)

I think that qualifies for "Thread Reply of the Year", already, Pabs!

[Pabmusic]

I think that qualifies for "Thread Reply of the Year", already, Pabs!

[antongould]

Indeed .....

[HighlandDougie]

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)

Reading Pabs's post has produced a sudden memory of something similar - listening to the radio en famille - could it have been Your 100 Best Tunes with Alan Keith? - and hearing this entrancing music in about 1962. If caught unawares by hearing it now when not expecting it, it still provokes a very strong emotional reaction.

[Pabmusic]

Reading Pabs's post has produced a sudden memory of something similar - listening to the radio en famille - could it have been Your 100 Best Tunes with Alan Keith? - and hearing this entrancing music in about 1962. If caught unawares by hearing it now when not expecting it, it still provokes a very strong emotional reaction.

So very true. It's not just the memory, but it's an emotional response associated with it.

This is intersting:

https://www.google.com.ph/amp/s/www.psychologytoday.com/blog/the-athletes-way/201312/why-do-the-songs-your-past-evoke-such-vivid-memories%3famp

[BBMmk2]

It's a pity that there is only room for 8 recordings to take with you. I would want another, and that is "Complete Champions" by Black Dyke Band, on Chandos. This has one of my favourite works, Contest Music by Wilfred Heaton. He composed another one called Partita, which lasts for well over 20 minutes!

[LMcD]

You can trust that Wiki entry - I wrote it. :)

Delighted to do so!

[antongould]

Not what the thread is really for I know but, to me at least, an interesting programme still available featuring another philosopher from the pit heaps - John Gray .....

[Ferretfancy]

Scarlatti : K55 Christian Zacharias - 20 Jun 1973
Scarlatti : K55 Christian Zacharias - 17 Feb 1973
Scarlatti : K55 Christian Zacharias - 18 Dec 1978
Scarlatti : K55 Christian Zacharias - 24 Nov 1984
Scarlatti : K55 Christian Zacharias - . 3 Dec 1984
Scarlatti : K55 Christian Zacharias - . 9 Jul 1985
Scarlatti : K55 Christian Zacharias - 27 Oct 1985
Scarlatti : K55 Christian Zacharias - 27 Sep 1994

( other performances are available : http://amzn.eu/1IpzeSk )


My book : Sterne - Tristram Shandy

My luxury : some painless suicide pills.






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Before or after the Scarlatti?

[DracoM]

You forgot Jeff Buckley and 'Hallelujah'...................

[Serial_Apologist]

Not what the thread is really for I know but, to me at least, an interesting programme still available featuring another philosopher from the pit heaps - John Gray .....

If it be the same, I just find him so depressing, and defeatist...