Re: Desert Island Discs [OT, maybe?]

[Jost Ammon <jammon@gmx.net>]

These have revealed as my most faithful companions on the road (no order):

1. Imaginary Day - Pat Metheny Group
2. Schubert Symphonies (#5!)  by the Hanover Band
3. GG the Wagner Transcriptions
4. Wagner: Parsifal
5. Bach St. Matthews (Gardiner)
6. Bach Chamber Music (Musiqua Antiqua - Rainer Goebel, Cologne)
7. Bartok music for Strings, Celesta and PErcussion (Boulez)
8. Endless Days - Eberhard Weber
9. Fictionary - Lyle Mays Trio
10. Brad Mehldau - Songs (Art of the Trio 3)
11. Barbara Bonney sings Mozart, Schubert and Mendelssohn
12. Bach: 6 Partitas - GG
13. Schubert - Schoene Muellerin (Hintermair)
14. Bach Trio Sonatas for Orgue (Marie-Claire Alain, well - hm, maybe
still Hans Fagius?)
15. very last minute choices

didn't you, Bruce Petherick <bpetherick@SHAW.CA>, write
on Wed, 7 Aug 2002 15:50:36 -0600:

> Hi all,
>         I have been catching up with various emails over the last few
>         hours and thought about being without my CD collection for a
>         year. I am in the middle of a real Desert Island situation, and
>         I though I might ask what CDs are the minimum for a healthy
>         life-style :-> Wy wife had to go back to Australia to pack up,
>         so these are what she selected for both of us (NB no editing to
>         protect some bad choices on my part!)
>
> In no particular order:
>
> 1. Steve Reich "Music for 18 musicians" [original recording]
> 2. Steve Recih " The Cave" [Good for scaring people with the Carl Sagan
> part :->] 3. Arvo Part "Passio"
> 4. Jan Garbarek "Rites"
> 5. Bent Sorensen "Birds and Bells" [Most of you won't know this, but it
> is really brilliant. Look for it ECM New Series] 6. Sinfonye "Complete
> Hildegard von Bingen Vol 1" 7. Kronos Quartet "Early Music"
> 8. Morton Feldman "all piano" John Tilbury [best and most complete
> performance until I can finish my set :->] 9. Morton Feldman "Coptic
> Light" Ensemble Avant-Garde [Not my favourite of the 3 recordings I have
> of this, but still pretty damn good] 10. Keith Jarret "Koln Concert"
> 11 - 14. First four albums of Brad Mehldau
> 15. South Park "Bigger Longer & Uncut" [This was the only pop music we
> played my daughter in vitro, and she still likes it at 2] 16. Bruce
> Hornsby "Harbor Lights" [Can you tell that I play the piano??] and
> 17. The CBC 1954 Goldbergs. I bought this just before we left, so it is
> the freshest. I miss my '81 now!
>
>
> Thoughts?
>
> Bruce Petherick