Desert Island Discs

[EdgeleyRob]

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.

I know what you mean,now wondering what to drop to fit in Vaughan Williams: Job (Boult/LSO, EMI)

[Keraulophone]

Roy Plomley, or even Sue Lawley, would never have allowed Ed Milliband to have, as his luxury, a weekly takeaway from his local curry house; Armando Iannucci's virtual sherry trifle being more in keeping with Ed's HHGTTG book choice.

[Thropplenoggin]

I'd be taking Bach's Cello Suites (Tortelier) with me - eternal works. Apart from Cello Suite 1's prelude (thanks, advertisers!), they never seem to become overfamiliar.

I'd also probably include Bach's Brandenburg Concertos. The Dunedin Consort/Butt has been on heavy rotation since downloading it as a FLAC file in December, and is now my preferred version. I hear detail I've never heard before, probably due to the fact that, to quote one review, 'no instruments are doubled, and the entire ensemble comprises only ten performers'. I also marvel at how modern they sound. The last movement of No. 4 reminds me of the Jupiter symphony's finale, in its joyful inventiveness. And then the 6th, which sounds like nothing else in Bach's oeuvre that I've heard to date. The beer and tobacco must have been flowing freely when he wrote them.

A list of reviews here, for the undecided: http://www.linnrecords.com/review-du...-december.aspx

I'm curious to hear the new release by the Freiburg Barockorchester. Hopefully it's not too closely miked, as their Orchestral Suites were. I don't like hearing clacking keys.

[Don Petter]

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

You are obviously a very vocal person. I haven't tried the exercise, which I think would be a very daunting one, but I suspect my list would not contain any human voice.

[amateur51]

I'd be taking Bach's Cello Suites (Tortelier) with me - eternal works.

Salymap wiil be thrilled to read this Throppers - her favourite recording too

[Richard Tarleton]

I'd be taking Bach's Cello Suites (Tortelier) with me - eternal works. Apart from Cello Suite 1's prelude (thanks, advertisers!), they never seem to become overfamiliar.

My favourite version too. I heard Tortelier play the Prelude to No 1 as an encore, after, as he put it, "playing once again the old Elgarrrrrr" (BSO/Iwaki, Exeter, 1970). It does crop up constantly as background music, seeming to fit all sorts of situations .

[arthroceph]

Plundering Ardal O'Hanlon's jokebook:
I won't submit to the latent threat in your request by submitting any choices whatsoever.

[Nick Armstrong]

Sir Malcolm Sargent on a 1955 DID on Radio 4extra this evening at 21:!5

[BBMmk2]

This be rather difficult.

Beethoven PC No.5(Uchida, Conceertgebouw, Sanderling)
Symphony No.5's by Sibelius(LSO/Gibson) Shostakovich(Bavarian RSO/Jansons)
Bax: Spring Fire; etc. Royal PO, Handley
Vaughan Williams: London Symphony. LSO, Hickox
Elgar : VC (Hugh Bean, LPO, Handley)
Tchaikovsky Symphony No.5(LPO Jurowski)
Mahler Symphony No.6(Berliner PO, Abbado)
Britten Spring Symphony(composer's own recording)
J S Bach Mass in B minor(JEG's DG recording)

I've gone over but there's no books or items so I think I can do this!!