Desert Island Unsungs

[Paul Barasi]

Occasionally, members say a CD would be in their desert island collection.  Whilst of course this isn't about pirate copies, it's still only pieces of eight!  What is your full list of the eight you would take?

[Alan Howe]

We may have done this - or something like it - before, but here goes (in no particular order)...

1. Draeseke Sym 3 (or Sym 2 or VC)
2. Raff Sym 3 (or Sym 2 or Sym 4 or VC1)
3. Gernsheim Sym 4
4. Dietrich Sym (or VC)
5. Rufinatscha Sym 6 (or Sym 5)
6. Reinecke Sym 3 (or PC3)
7. Berger (Wilhelm) Sym 2
8. Röntgen PC2

...from which you will see that I am fixated primarily on the German symphonic repertoire of the second half of the nineteenth century!

[kolaboy]

1. Jules Levy - A Fair At Sofia suite
2. Spontini - Milton
3. Lemoyne - Electra
4. Gade - Symphony 6
5. Raff - Symphony 5
6. Mark Blatchley - Evening Service For Trebles
7. Pixis - Concerto for Violin, Piano & Strings
8. Sviridov - Snowstorm

[alberto]

I indicate particular versions (so I take to the desert island the full Cd with the couplings, unsung or sung):
-Magnard Symphony 4 (Ossonce Hyperion - coupled to Sym. 3)
-Martucci Symphony 1 (Baakels Bis - coupled to Sym. 2)
-G.Butterworth A Shropshire Lad (orchestral) (Stokowski Cala - bad, old broadcast , but coupled to Vaughan Williams Sym. 4 and Antheil Sym.4)
-Berwald Symphonie Singuliére (Markevich DG coupled to Berwald Sym.4 and Schubert Sym. 4)
-Pizzetti Concerto dell'Estate (Gardelli Australian Eloq. coupled to "La Pisanella", Respighi and Rota)
-Falla Pedrellliana (one of Four Homenajes) (Lopez-Cobos Telarc; other three Homenajes; El Sombrero de tres picos; excerpts from La vida breve)
-Busoni Turandot Suite (Naxos; also Sarabande and Cortege and Berceuse Elegiaque)
-Dukas Symphony (Fournet Regis - also La Peri and Apprenti Sorcier)

[Mark Thomas]

Some self imposed limitations: Only one work per composer (otherwise it might be all Raff); only orchestral or vocal works (because I would be miserable there all by myself, so I would want to hear people and feel uplifted - chamber music is way too intimate for the marooned); choose music which provokes happy memories irrespective of its quality, not just music which I think others would approve of(!)

Raff: Die Tageszeiten (or any number of other works)
Sullivan: Macbeth Overture
Massenet: Esclarmonde
Meyerbeer: Les Huguenots
Glazunov: Symphony No.5
Joachim: Violin Concerto No.2 "Hungarian"
X Scharwenka: Piano Concerto No.1
Stanford: Symphony No.5

But it might be a very different list tomorrow...

[Josh]

I occasionally scan through these lists, and the one thing I get out of it is how glad I am that I'm not actually forced to make such a choice.  Don't get you get kinda miserable if you really try thinking about it?

[Alan Howe]

No, I'm never miserable - just fascinated to know whether it's the same list as on the previous occasion someone asked the question, or whether it'll be the same in a year, two years, five years...

[albion]

In no particular order:

Schreker - Die Gezeichneten
Bowen - 24 Preludes, Op. 102
Hausegger - Natursymphonie
Arnold - Symphony No.7
Britten - Owen Wingrave
Bantock - Omar Khayyam
Atterberg - Symphony No.1
Delibes - Sylvia

Plenty of variety! 

[fuhred]

again, in no particular order...

1- Glazunov Symphony no.6 (Moscow Radio SO/Fedoseyev)
2- Chen/He Butterfly Lovers Violin Concerto (Nishizaki/Nagoya PO/Kek-Tjiang)
3- Steinberg Symphony No.1 (Gothenburg SO/Jarvi)
4- Fibich Symphony No.1 (Detroit SO/Jarvi)
5- Alfred Hill Symphony No.2 (South Australian SO/Thomas)
6- Scharwenka Piano Concerto No.4 (Hough/City of Birmingham SO/Foster)
7- Raff Macbeth Overture (Bamberg SO/Stadlmair)
8- my own symphonic poem 'Elfen Lied' (inspired by the anime)
           
            mp3 link:     http://www.mediafire.com/?dc5v99bjqkobio2
            and program notes link:     http://www.mediafire.com/?2d1lx96aq282ct1

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