Desert Island Discs

Originally posted by shiloh
Solo Monk - Thenonius Monk

Kind of Blue - Miles Davis

A Love Supreme - John Coltrane

What's Going On - Marvin Gaye

The Royal Scam - Steely Dan

The Elephant Riders - Clutch

Parabola - TOOL

And some version of Brahms' Clarinet Quintet

A guitar

If my only choice in books is the Bible, I suppose I'll take a copy

And the LAST would be Kind of Blue.

Joni Mitchell 'Court and Spark' (I was a free man in paris) Brilliant is a weak word to describe Joni.

Alternately, the bootleg Joni Mitchel/James Taylor acoustic concert from around 1962 live. If you can find it, a real jewel.

George Winston December (a bit biased since he is a personal friend🙂

Martin Simpson and Jessica Ruby Simpson 'Band of angels'

Richard Thompson Vincent Black Lightning 1952. A song that sounds like a movie.
Guitar playing incredible!

Rory Block: When a Woman Gets the Blues.
Best white women country blues guitarist of all time.

Also The last of the Leviathans!

Eleanor shanley and Ronnie Drew Restless farewell and Parting Glass

Mavis Staples Hard times come again no more (Without a doubt the best version of this song ever done!

Take a listen to her Youtube:

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Dougie Mclean Caladonia.

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Pentangle House Carpenter!

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Bruce Molsky Drunkards Hiccups
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Originally posted by sonhouse

Dougie Mclean Caladonia.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wP8A9rtg0iI

It's been a few years since I've heard Caladonia...it makes me feel homesick for no rational reason...a lovely melancholy feeling. Thank you for posting it.

I'm working on my list of discs as a welcome diversion from English Lit. assignments.

Pink Floyd: Dark Side of the Moon
Grateful Dead: American Beauty
Beatles: Abbey Road
Joan Baez: Any Day Now
Mary Black: No Frontiers
Puccini: La bohème
Bob Dylan: Blonde on Blonde
Ravi Shankar: Chants of India
Religious text: Tao Te Ching
Luxury: I wouldn’t take any “luxury,” the rest on the desert island would BE the luxury
Book: The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson
Disc I would keep: Dark Side of the Moon…It’s the one album on the list that I don’t sing with and just listen to…

Originally posted by hakima
It's been a few years since I've heard Caladonia...it makes me feel homesick for no rational reason...a lovely melancholy feeling. Thank you for posting it.

I'm working on my list of discs as a welcome diversion from English Lit. assignments.

The link I posted was a bit different instrumentally than the original which had two guitar tracks or maybe a guitar and mandola, I saw one in the latest video. I always thought the original acoustic intro was one of the nicest in the genre but the new video showing a mature Dougie is very very good also!

Originally posted by Rank outsider
I also wonder if we ought to warn scacchipazzo about this, for the sake of his health. I think his head might explode when he is asked to narrow his choice down to eight, let alone one!

🙂

I see now what you meant in the other thread. Well here's my list:

Pink Floyd: Dark Side of the Moon

Franz Schubert; Die Winterreise, Siegfried Lorenz/Norman Shetler

Giuseppe Verdi: Requiem and Cuatro Pezzi Sacri, Berlin Philharmonic, Claudio Abbado

Joan Manuel Serrat: Miguel Hernandez album

Wagner: Der Ring des Nibelungen, Karl Bohm, Bayreuth Festival edition

Bach : St. Matthew Passion

Beethoven : Complete String Quartets, Alban Berg Quartet

Wagner: Tristan und Isolde

Franz Joseph Haydn: The Creation

Religious text : I will take the Bible.

Luxury : Automatic espresso and cappuccino maker

Book : Will and Ariel Durant's History of Civilization

Originally posted by scacchipazzo
I see now what you meant in the other thread. Well here's my list:

Pink Floyd: Dark Side of the Moon

Franz Schubert; Die Winterreise, Siegfried Lorenz/Norman Shetler

Giuseppe Verdi: Requiem and Cuatro Pezzi Sacri, Berlin Philharmonic, Claudio Abbado

Joan Manuel Serrat: Miguel Hernandez album

Wagner: Der Ring des Nibelungen, Karl Bohm, Bay ...[text shortened]... omatic espresso and cappuccino maker

Book : Will and Ariel Durant's History of Civilization

Thank you!

Can you recommend a recording (one easily available) of St Matthew Passion.

New Years resolution was to plug the gaps in my classical collection, and that is a pretty obvious one.

Originally posted by Rank outsider
Thank you!

Can you recommend a recording (one easily available) of St Matthew Passion.

New Years resolution was to plug the gaps in my classical collection, and that is a pretty obvious one.

The EMI Willhelm Furtwangler recording is probably my favorite, but it is remastered and some don't like that, but it is also inexpensive at $15.99 compared to the Von Karajan Deutche Grammophon recording at $38. I don't know if Claudio Abbado has recorded the St. Matthew Passion but I'll look for you. Some find him woody, but I like his choral recordings' precision and excellent readings. His recording of the Verdi Requiem on Deutche Grammophon is excellent and I got it for $15.99! John Elliot Gardiner's ST. Matthew Passion is also very competently recorded, but many don't like original instruments recordings.

BTW, I misspelled Verdi's Quattro Pezzi Sacri by spelling "cuatro", which is Spanish and not Italian, LOL

Originally posted by scacchipazzo
The EMI Willhelm Furtwangler recording is probably my favorite, but it is remastered and some don't like that, but it is also inexpensive at $15.99 compared to the Von Karajan Deutche Grammophon recording at $38. I don't know if Claudio Abbado has recorded the St. Matthew Passion but I'll look for you. Some find him woody, but I like his choral recordin ...[text shortened]... Verdi's Quattro Pezzi Sacri by spelling "cuatro", which is Spanish and not Italian, LOL

Thanks for this.

I prefer period instruments and virtually all my baroque collection is period. I have become so accustomed to them that I find non-period hard to digest at times. This is probably not a good thing.

I have JEG's Mass in B minor, which I enjoy a lot, so will probably check this out. I'm no connoisseur so this may well tick the box.

Originally posted by Rank outsider
Thanks for this.

I prefer period instruments and virtually all my baroque collection is period. I have become so accustomed to them that I find non-period hard to digest at times. This is probably not a good thing.

I have JEG's Mass in B minor, which I enjoy a lot, so will probably check this out. I'm no connoisseur so this may well tick the box.

I have JEG's Mass in B Minor as well and consider it first rate so perhaps you will enjoy the St. Matthew Passion as well. The English Baroque Soloists always seem to have excellent singers and their chorus( I believe they resort to the Monteverdi Chorus) are always excellent.

Here's a recording you might enjoy. Antonio Caldara is a lesser known genius, contemporary of Bach, and excellent indeed. His Stabat Mater is unique for using dissonance before it was fashionable, strange harmonies with instrumental pairings not always used to harmonize with one another. This is parts one and two. His Missa Dolorosa is also superb.

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