Let's Play Desert Island Discs!

Nessum Dorma sung by Pavarotti was on the short list, but seemed a little cliche.

Tchaikovsky's First piano concerto and Rach 2 played by Sviatoslav Richter, conducted by Karajan

Brahms 4, conducted by Furtwängler, with BPO

All Bach concertos and sonatas, played by S. Richter

Handel, Concerti Grossi, Karajan and BPO

Bach, Matthäus Passion, Nicholas Harnoncourt

Don Giovanni, Mozart, Giulini, Sutherland, Schwarzkopf, Alva

Il Barbiere di Siviglia, Abbado, Prey, Alva, Berganza

Carmen, Karajan, Baltsa, Karreras

The album Barcelona, Freddie Mercury and Montserrat Caballe'

Book: Novels for Children by Erich Kästner

I really recommend War and Peace, it's an easy and captivating read, despite its size, and with many homoerotic moments. Would recommend Anna Karenina even more.

R2 Oooooooo Good choices! Especially Rach 2.

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It is a desert island disc!

I guess if you want to be lulled to death on a desert island these would be appropriate.

I would definitely include “Eric Porter, Orchestre De Paris: Peter And The Wolf / Young Person's Guide To The Orchestra”

Hit me baby one more time

The collected works of Tammy Faye Bakker

R8 = Rihanna

I thought it would be fun, but okay.

OP has the taste of a 18 year old discovering "culture" for the first time.

[quote] I thought it would be fun, but okay.

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The ABBA Gold album is sufficient

I made my initial list a long time ago. I have completed revised my list! I was surprised

1. Schubert's Piano Trio No. 1 in E Flat. Eugene Istomin, Leonard Rose, and Isaac Stern

2. Brahms Cello Sonata, played by Rudolf Serkin and Mstislav Rostropovich

3. On the Street Where You Lived from My Fair Lady, sung by Jerry Hadley

4. Beethoven's Piano Sonata No. 32, played by Anatol Ugorski

5. Mahler's 6th Symphony, played by the Boston Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Seiji Ozawa

6. The Land of Might Have Been by Ivor Novello. Sung and played by Jeremy Northam. From the film Gosford Park

7. Mendelssohn's String Octet, played by the Eroica Quartet

8. Oh No, John, sung by Paul Robeson

My book would a three in one binding of A Room with a View, Howards End, and Maurice by E.M. Forster.

My luxury would be an endless supply of Chateau Rothschild

R19 is the kind of old gay deserving being stranded alone on an island

R16 who?

R16 can tell the future. I

Desert island discs

Bach. Goldberg Variations. Andras Schiff. Decca

Bach. St. Matthew Passion. Herreweghe’s first recording.

Barber. Summer Music

Mahler. Symphony No. 2. Fischer? Bernstein on DG? Rattle CBSO? I’ve never been able to make up my mind.

Mahler. Symphony No. 6. Bernstein CBS/Sony

Mahler. Symphony No. 3. Claudio Abbado. Vienna

Mozart. Le Nozze di Figaro. Bohm

Schubert. Piano Sonata 960 & Wanderer Fantasie. Brendel

Book: Marcella Hazan’s Essentials of Italian Cooking

Luxury: Lasagne alla Bolognese and San Pellegrino

R19 you love Mahler too?

I do, r20. I could have filled in the entire eight discs with Mahler symphonies, really.

R21 I could have too, but I needed some light hearted stuff as well. Mahler 6 is my all time favorite though

Macarena: Los Del Rio

Wait I change a disc! Instead of Oh No John, I want Goin' Home by Paul Robeson

Yes, r22, Mahler's Sixth Symphony certainly is magnificent. I've never heard Ozawa's version. I've been listening to Mahler, and classical music in general, since 1987, and I really got into buying different versions of Mahler. I found with the Sixth, though, that I only wanted to listen to Bernstein's first recording. Everyone else takes the first movement too slowly, and I would just turn on Bernstein instead.

Which is your favorite Second?

[quote] Marcella Hazan’s Essentials of Italian Cooking

Why would one want that on a desert island especially with your lasagne?

Gotta eat, r26. I can't think of a novel I'd want to read over and over, so I chose something useful.

Thank you, R27.

If I can only bring one it would be The White Album. Just an incredible amount of variety with really strong songwriting across the board. Even Ringo's offering "Don't Pass Me By" is fantastic. There's a song for every mood. It's just crazy how many genres they packed into that record. The fact that it's sort of all over the place and incohesive just makes it better to me, it's so raw and bold.

why do you get to pick 8 albums but only one luxury item and one book?

that's stupid

Because they’re typically not in disc form.

well that's a stupid game, and i hate it.

R25 I would highly recommend Ozawa/Boston cycle! 1-9 and the first movement of 10 are on Spotify if you want to listen. I really enjoyed Ozawa. It was more technical and not as dramatic as Bernstein. A few of the sopranos are Kiri Te Kawana, Marilyn Horne, Kathleen Battle, and Jessye Norman.

I would have to rate them 6, 9, 5, 2, 1, 7, 8, 4, and then 3.

What is your rating?