The Eight Composers you couldn't Live Without. 8 only, no additions,no other rules

[salymap]

Time for another list, yes I know I said never again, but ....

[Thropplenoggin]

I've 7.5, Saly, will that do?

I jest.

1. Bach
2. Beethoven
3. Bruckner
4. Brahms
5. Debussy
6. Mozart
7. Schubert
8. Wagner

With Tallis and Palestrina on the subs bench.

[Beef Oven!]

Bach
Beethoven
Wagner
Bruckner
Tchaikovsky
Mahler
Ravel
Debussy

If 9, Mozart too
If 10, Mozart & Britten too

Why 8 and not 10? We're not on a desert island!

[Boilk]

Bach
Why 8 and not 10? We're not on a desert island!

Well, some of us have got only 8 fingers to count on ... plus two thumbs if pushed.

[MrGongGong]

Bach
Beethoven
Wagner
Bruckner
Tchaikovsky
Mahler
Ravel
Debussy

If 9, Mozart too
If 10, Mozart & Britten too

Why 8 and not 10? We're not on a desert island!

You missed out Dave Bartram ?

[Hornspieler]

... Why 8 and not 10? We're not on a desert island!

Well judging by the apparent lack of interest in the actual Radio 3 content on these message boards at the moment, we might just as well be ...


HS

BTW back to topic:

Beethoven
Haydn
Mozart
Kodaly
Schubert
Schumann
Verdi
Walton

[jean]

1 Composers of the Eton Choirbook (hopefully they can count as one, as none of them left us very much.)
2 Byrd
3 Tallis
4 Lassus
5 Victoria
6 Bach
7 Haydn (properly pronounced)
8 Shostakovich

[decantor]

DID allows every castaway the Bible and Shakespeare, so I am assuming everyone is allowed Bach and Beethoven.

And so, in no particular order: Palestrina, Haydn, Mozart, Shostakovitch, Ravel, Poulenc, Messiaen, Britten

......... but I grieve for some of the omissions.

[Nick Armstrong]

Judging by the apparent lack of interest in the actual Radio 3 content on these message boards at the moment, we might just as well be ...


HS

It is a Forum "for Radio 3 listeners" though... as opposed to a Forum "about Radio 3"...

My 8 () are:

Bach
Ravel
Fauré
Rachmaninov
Tallis
Vaughan Williams
Elgar
Mahler
Shostakovich

OK it's a 'Baker's Eight'... ! Sue me, saly



PS Finzi and Howells are on the subs' bench... with a no doubt slightly bemused Handel and a very amused Poulenc

[MrGongGong]

Today (in the context of being alone doing stuff )

1: Cage
2: Feldman
3: Jonathan Harvey
4: Ligeti
5: Trevor Wishart
6: Alvin Lucier
7: Messiaen
8: Eliane Radigue

(or is that the nearest tottering pile of CDS ? )
but tomorrow ..................... ? Who knows

[Sir Velo]

DID allows every castaway the Bible and Shakespeare, so I am assuming everyone is allowed Bach and Beethoven.

The Old and the New Testament eh?

[Boilk]

Bruckner
Mahler
Respighi
Stravinsky
Tippett
Hovhaness
François Bayle
Denis Smalley

...it changes from year to year.

[Anna]

Beethoven
Shostakovitch
Purcell
Wagner
Victoria
Rachmaninov
Vaughan Williams
Stravinsky
At this moment in time. Tomorrow may be different.

[Beef Oven!]

Well, some of us have got only 8 fingers to count on ... plus two thumbs if pushed.

I take my socks off!

[salymap]

My list changes from day to day, today...

Bach
Mozart
Tchaikovsky
Dvorak
Sibelius
Mahler
Elgar
Vaughan Williams