Music sent to space!

[nivyehuda]

In the year 1977, two spacecrafts (voyager 1 & 2) were sent to the outer space by NASA, each carrying a disc containing music of different styles and times.
One classical piano (or keyboard, in this case) recording was put there, Bach's prelude and fugue in C major from the second book of the well-tempered klavier, with Glenn Gould performing.
What piano piece would you choose to the vastness of space, and what is your opinion regarding the permormer choice?

[thalbergmad]

I would send the complete piano works of Schumann into space.

If any aliens heard that crap, they would not bother launching an invasion.

Thal

[classicalnhiphop]

although is i find his a minor concerto boring, I can't say the same about things like papillions or even kinderszenen

[coda_colossale]

I would send the complete piano works of Schumann into space.

If any aliens heard that crap, they would not bother launching an invasion.

Thal

What about atonal music? Though I'd be looking forward to see 'muricans slaughtering them.

If only piano music is to be sent, probably the Richter recording of the C# minor prelude fugue from WTC I. Now that's music to boast with. What kind of an idiot sends that p&f

Otherwise I'd send in addition to Bach some Robert Fripp, probably "Hope" with his quartet, some Javanese Gamelan music, Wagner's Der Ring, Dies Irae...