Your boat crashed...

[cabbynum]

And you are left on an island with a CD player.

What set of music would you bring in the following categories?

Etudes (one opus, so no op.10 and 25...)

Sonatas (can't pick all 32 of Beethoven)

Symphony (yes singular)

Concerto (yes singular)

Various other sets by a composer

Preludes and fugues

Quartets/ chamber works


For me it would be Alkan op.39

Beethoven op.57 Barenboim

Beethovens 9th or 7th honestly is be happy with either

Rachmaninov 1st concerto (revised version of course)

And probably the Fantasie in F minor Chopin

[coda_colossale]

Interesting topic.
You should also include preludes/fugues and String Quartets I think.
Rachmaninoff- Etudes-Tableaux Op. 39 (Ashkenazy)
Rachmaninoff- Piano Sonata No. 2 (Horowitz)
Mahler- Symphony No. 9 (Bruno Walter)
Schumann or Grieg concerto, too hard to decide. Both may be considered the greatest piano concerti ever written.
Kidding
Rachmaninoff- Piano Concerto Op. 30 No. 3 (Lazar Berman or Olga Kern)
Chopin- Preludes Op. 28 (Sokolov)
Shostakovich- String Quartet No. 8
Medtner- Fairy Tales

[jimf]

Interesting topic.
You should also include preludes/fugues and String Quartets I think.
Rachmaninoff- Etudes-Tableaux Op. 39 (Ashkenazy)
Rachmaninoff- Piano Sonata No. 2 (Horowitz)
Mahler- Symphony No. 9 (Bruno Walter)
Schumann or Grieg concerto, too hard to decide. Both may be considered the greatest piano concerti ever written.
Kidding
Rachmaninoff- Piano Concerto Op. 30 No. 3 (Lazar Berman or Olga Kern)
Chopin- Preludes Op. 28 (Sokolov)
Shostakovich- String Quartet No. 8
Medtner- Fairy Tales

Thumbs up for Medtner!  Anything by him! Also some Bach (Brandenburg Concert 3), Vivaldi (Concerto alla Rustica), Dvorak (anything, just anything), Grieg (same as Dvorak), Skalkottas (the Sea ballet) and Peterson-Berger (any symphony) for me! Of course I would have taken maaaany more with me!  I just don't wanna make the side scroll bar look tiny after that! 

[j_menz]

And you are left on an island with a CD player.

Where do I plug it in?

[ahinton]

Where do I plug it in?

Into your imagination, I imagine - although if it's the Desert Island famous for some seven decades from BBC programmes, maybe some might be more concerned to have their plugging in efforts witnessed by the current delectable Scottish presenter of that series (which I realise is not an answer to the question, but...)...

Best,

Alistair

[perprocrastinate]

Etudes: Rachmaninoff Op. 39
Sonatas: Prokofiev
Symphony: Mahler's Ninth
Concerto: Rachmaninoff Op. 30

For the rest, I can't really say.

Where do I plug it in?

Classic j_menz.

[iansinclair]

Now that's really hard...

Piano concerto?  Rach 2 or Beethoven 5 (Emperor).

Symphony?  aaargh... there are so many... Sibelius 2.  Or maybe Dvorak New World.  Or...

Can I have a complete set of Chopin Nocturnes?

There'd be some Bach.  The Brandenburgs, perhaps, as a set.

Some Schutz -- die Wienachshistorie

A Gabrieli collection

But... the indispensable work... which I could not be without... the Berlioz Requiem

[j_menz]

Assuming we can solve the electricity thing, or I can take an old gramophone instead, my list would be:

Etudes (one opus, so no op.10 and 25...) - Liszt TEs

Sonatas (can't pick all 32 of Beethoven) - Schubert (all of 'em)

Symphony (yes singular)-  Beethoven 9

Concerto (yes singular) - Elgar Cello.

Various other sets by a composer - Wagner's Ring

Preludes and fugues - Yes please! All of everyone's.

Quartets/ chamber works - Beethoven late quartets (including the Grosse Fugue)

[outin]

Assuming we can solve the electricity thing,

Ever heard of battery operated appliences? 

Your list...I just hope we won't be stuck on the same Island 

[j_menz]

Ever heard of battery operated appliences? 

An island without electricity is unlikely to have a battery shop.   

Your list...I just hope we won't be stuck on the same Island 

Just think how much worse it could have been.

[cabbynum]

An island without electricity is unlikely to have a battery shop.   

Just think how much worse it could have been.

Solar powered CD player

[j_menz]

Solar powered CD player

I really should have thought of that. 

[outin]

An island without electricity is unlikely to have a battery shop.   

If you have time to pack all that music (every prelude and fugue ever written?), I'm sure you'll have a reserve of batteries as well...

Just think how much worse it could have been.

I'm thinking...not much I'm afraid

[cabbynum]

I really should have thought of that. 

Honestly, I'm a little dissapointed.

[j_menz]

Honestly, I'm a little dissapointed.

Get over it. My coffee is too weak, evidently. 

Who do you take doing the Beethoven 7 or 9, btw? My 9 will be the Berlin Phil under Arrau.

[ahinton]

Solar powered CD player

So Beethoven 6 falls silent during a storm, then...

Best,

Alistair

[j_menz]

So Beethoven 6 falls silent during a storm, then...

Best,

Alistair

And nocturnes at night, but perhaps they have (rechargeable) battery backup for such contingencies.

[cabbynum]

And nocturnes at night, but perhaps they have (rechargeable) battery backup for such contingencies.

Most solar powered devices are filling up an energy storage thing and that holds the charge.

Symphony 7: Anyway, it's not on CD... Yet, I won't go on a boat until it is. Nashville symphony, it's where I live and their performance of it last summer absolutely blew me away. I was amazed and not surprisingly wept like a baby at the end of the 2nd movement. Guerrero conducting, same for 9

[redbaron]

Etudes - Rachmaninov Op 33
Sonatas - Sibelius Op 12
Symphony - Howard Hanson No 2
Concerto - Schumann
Other - Pictures at an Exhibition
Preludes & Fugues - Bach WTC BK I
Quartets/Chamber Works - Philip Glass String Quartets

[Bob]

How about an mp3 player with a crank arm to power up during emergencies?  It exists and it's possible.  You've got a few music file on this crankup mp3 player or you've got a few music files on an SD card or thumb drive that can connect to the mp3 player.


Something like this....
https://www.llbean.com/llb/shop/70657?productId=1187371&qs=3016887_mercent_google_pla&attrValue_0=Stainless&mr:trackingCode=545C7496-B0F0-E211-A497-90E2BA285E75&mr:referralID=NA&mr:device=c&mr:adType=pla&mkwid=pWZCjgBY_dc&pcrid=35742995937


For music, I don't know.  Variety would be good, for style and for instruments.

[chicoscalco]

Etudes I'd say Debussy
Sonata for me would ve Schubert D960 or Beethoven op. 111
Symphony would be Rach 2nd
Preludes and fugues... Do I really have to answer?
Concerto is a tough pick. Probably proko 3 or maybe Beethoven emperor. Or brahms first.
Chamber work would be Ravel piano trio
Other works... Tombeau de couperin, schumann Fantasy in C, Kinderszenen, valses nobles et sentimentales and the art of fugue.

[illusionary]

Etudes (one opus, so no op.10 and 25...)

Liszt's Trois Etudes de Concert - I can't live without Un Sospiro

Sonatas (can't pick all 32 of Beethoven)

Beethoven's Waldstein OR Appassionata I can't decide!

Symphony (yes singular)

Dvorak's New World - didn't even have to think about that one

Concerto (yes singular)

Elgar's Cello Concerto OR Beethoven's 5th OR Mozart's 20th OR Rach's 2nd - gosh that's a hard choice....

Various other sets by a composer

Liszt's Hungarian Rhapsodies or Bach's Six Cello Suites

Preludes and fugues

Shostakovitch no. 15 or the whole bloody lot!

Quartets/ chamber works
Brahms - Sextet in B flat major op. 18 (absolutely beautiful, this is my all time favourite romantic piece of work ever written, I feel ashamed though as it's not a piano piece!)