Desert Island Discs

[Flosshilde]

The Ring would count as four choices.

Surely the Ring is a single work? I think Wagner thought of the four parts as a single entity - The composer termed the cycle a "Bühnenfestspiel" (stage festival play), structured in three days preceded by a Vorabend ("ante-evening"). (Wikipedia)

[mangerton]

Oh, Look, Proverbs 5:
For the lips of a strange woman drop as an honeycomb, and her mouth is smoother than oil:
But her end is bitter as wormwood, sharp as a two-edged sword.
Her feet go down to death; her steps take hold on hell.
Lest thou shouldest ponder the path of life, her ways are moveable, that thou canst not know them.

I think that language is thrilling - but that's just me! Sorry again for being off-topic. I'm not a believer, but I do love the way it expresses, stuff so wonderfully.
Oh, did I say, Elgar is on my list?

It's not just you. The AV contains some of the finest writing in the English language. (IMHO!) And most of it is in the OT, which has the distinct advantage of not containing anything written by Paul. You quoted from Proverbs. The Song of Solomon and the Psalms also have some magnificent passages. As the man said:

King David and King Solomon
Led merry, merry lives, With many, many concubines
And many, many wives;
But when old age crept over them,
With many, many qualms,
King Solomon wrote the Proverbs
And King David wrote the Psalms.

OT (tonight, anyway):

JSB St Matthew Passion
Messiaen La Nativité du Seigneur
Rachmaninov Vespers
RVW Fantasia on a Theme of Thomas Tallis
Mozart Requiem
Praetorius Lutheran Mass for Christmas (Gabrieli Consort, McCreesh)
Rolling Stones Let it Bleed
Pink Floyd Wish You Were Here

[mangerton]

OT, but not surprising those who take the bible a tad literally don't want women as bishops

Possibly, but see my remarks about Paul above. One example:

Let your women keep silence in the churches: for it is not permitted unto them to speak; but they are commanded to be under obedience as also saith the law.
And if they will learn any thing, let them ask their husbands at home: for it is a shame for women to speak in the church.

[Barbirollians]

Surely the Ring is a single work? I think Wagner thought of the four parts as a single entity - The composer termed the cycle a "Bühnenfestspiel" (stage festival play), structured in three days preceded by a Vorabend ("ante-evening"). (Wikipedia)

No - four separate operas for the purposes of Desert Island Discs IMO .

[ahinton]

Possibly, but see my remarks about Paul above. One example:

Let your women keep silence in the churches: for it is not permitted unto them to speak; but they are commanded to be under obedience as also saith the law.
And if they will learn any thing, let them ask their husbands at home: for it is a shame for women to speak in the church.

How utterly disgusting and inhuman! What sort of "religion" would it be that sought to function in such a way? Paul (though ont only him) has much for which to answer - or at least would do were he not long dead...

[makropulos]

I should be fascinated to see forumites choices . My current list would be



Mahler- Ich bin der Welt abhanden gekommen- Ferrier/Walter
Sibelius Violin Concerto - Haendel/CBSO/Rattle
Elgar In The South- Bournemouth SO/Silvestri
Don't Explain-Billie Holiday
Chopin Berceuse-Solomon
Mozart Piano Concerto No 9 K271- Schiff/Vegh
Beethoven-Piano Concerto No 5- Barenboim/Klemperer
The Band Played Waltzing Matilda-June Tabor

ONE Disc to save - Beethoven Piano Concerto No 5

Great idea. This changes at least once a week... but for tonight, it's:

Bach: Magnificat (Ricercar Consort)
Brahms: Clarinet Quintet (Boskovsky/Vienna Octet, mono recording, Decca)
Janacek: Cunning Little Vixen (Mackerras, Decca)
Chopin Barcarolle (Lipatti, EMI)
Vaughan Williams: Job (Boult/LSO, EMI)
Mozart: Figaro (Mackerras, live, SWO 1966, Oriel Music)
Wagner: Meistersinger (Böhm/Bayreuth, Orfeo)
Britten: Noye's Fludde (Del Mar, Argo)

Book: Whitman - Collected poems

[EdgeleyRob]

Perhaps we need to re post lists as and when our choices change.

[Petrushka]

I would want to have not just the music but also in the version which has great meaning for me and played an important part in my life. The problem with this approach is that I'd weep at all I'd have to leave out.

Mahler: Symphony No 2 Concertgebouw/Haitink (1968 recording)
Beethoven: Symphony No 9 Chicago SO/Solti (1972 recording)
Wagner: Götterdämmerung VPO/Solti
Johann Strauss: Die Fledermaus VSO/Boskovsky
Bruckner: Symphony No 8 BPO/Karajan
Stanford: Te Deum in B Flat Choir of St Paul's Cathedral/Sir John Dykes Bower
Charles Wood: O Thou the Central Orb Choir of New College Oxford/Higginbottom
The Beatles: She Loves You

Book: Testimony - Shostakovich/Volkov

[teamsaint]

I thought I would try to resist , especially after reading Ferney's thoughts, but anyway, tonight, FWIW...

For me these sort of games demand a personal angle, so, realistically, on a desert Island I would be much better served by Beethoven 6, (or something) than 1 pop song....it doesn't work that way.

Four Last songs. Strauss.Gundula Janowitz (correct spelling according to wise sources)/HvK /BPO
DSCH Symphony 5/ Barshai.
Mahler 3 . Bertini. (just can't imagine running out of things to discover in this).
Beethoven Pastoral Sonata. John lill. (or one of dozens of other LvB works , obviously).
Schumann . Spring Symphony. Muti/Philharmonia.
Adam Zero. Bliss. ENP/ David LJ.

Man out of time. Elvis Costello
Missiles. The Sound.
(or alternatively Teenage kicks /The undertones/Down in the tube Station at Midnight/The Jam)

So nothing byXTC, The B52's, Beatles/Stones/Alex Harvey/Mozart/ Bach/RVW..........daft idea trying really.


My recommendation for one you prolly wouldn't know would be Missiles.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E3kQPJZPBN8

[antongould]

Bruckner 9 complete Rattle and the Berlin....
Goldbergs Gould 1981 version
Beethoven SQ 131 Quartetto Italiano
In Terra Pax Finzi
Mahler 2 Abbado Lucerne FO
Hearts and Bones Paul Simon
Koln Concert Keith Jarrett
Prokofiev VC 2 Heifetz

Book Bleak House

Luxury A piano

[Serial_Apologist]

The Massey Hall Concert 1953: Dizzy Gillespie, Charlie Parker, Bud Powell, Charlie Mingus, Max Roach
Bartok - String Quartet No 5
Schoenberg - Violin Concerto
Zemlinsky - Lyric Symphony
Berio - Coro
Stockhausen - Telemusik
Vaughan Williams - Serenade to Music
Bridge - Rebus

Luxury - solar-powered keyboard

Book - Alan Watts: The Way of Zen

[Nick Armstrong]

Book Bleak House

(Nice music too )

[Barbirollians]

Perhaps we need to re post lists as and when our choices change.

After makropoulos's list I could not believe I had managed to leave out Lipatti and Barbirolli .

I am now trying to work out how I could have left out Jurinac's Four Last Songs and Bohm's Figaro - especially Janowitz's Porgi Amor.

[vinteuil]

Victoria : Requiem. Paul McCreesh / Gabrielis
Bach : St John Passion. Andrew Parrott / Taverners
Rameau : Hippolyte et Aricie. Marc Minkowski
Gluck : Alceste. John Eliot Gardiner
Haydn : Harmoniemesse. Bruno Weil
Mozart : Cosi fan Tutte. René Jacobs
Schubert : Winterreise. Christophe Prégardien / Andreas Staier
Wagner : Meistersinger. H van Karajan 1951

book - Montaigne Essais
luxury - supply of chilled champagne - Jacquesson cuvée 233 would do nicely

[Eine Alpensinfonie]

Handel, arr. Mozart/Beecham/Goossens: Messiah - RPO/Beecham
Mozart: Symphony no. 40 - VPO/Furtwangler
Beethoven: Symphony no. 3 - VPO/Kleiber
Tchaikovsky: Symphony no. 6 - VPO/ Maazel
Puccini: Tosca - VPO/Karajan
Elgar: Symphony no. 1 - Halle/Barbirolli (1957)
Vaughan Williams: A Sea Symphony (LSO/Previn)
Strauss: Eine Alpensinfonie (RPO/Kempe) or perhaps another version

Book: Wainwright Fells Box set

Luxury: Steinway Model D