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    This may have been done before, but I'd like to start a thread wherein you can pick any composer, but you must choose just one recording to take to your "desert island" to represent him/her.

    Play as many times as you want, but please only do one composer / one recording for each individual post.

    I'll start it off:
    WAGNER

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    No vocal music here, unfortunately, but I'd still opt for this set personally if I had to take only one Wagner recording. (And, if you insist on making me take only one LP of the 3 in this set, it would be the one with the Overtures to Rienzi and The Flying Dutchman and the Faust Overture.)
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    MONTEVERDI

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    I was tempted to go with Book 5 - Madrigals, but I couldn't possibly leave out L'Orfeo.

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    Quote Originally Posted by kv466 View Post
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    Rene Leibowitz? Oh, I gotta look this one up!

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    CHOPIN

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    I think I'll take this for my Lizst, too.

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    It would have to be my current "obsession"

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    Stockhausen Hymnen

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    Luckily there is no argument about differing performances as it is a wholly electronic piece and exists, therefore, in one version only.
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    Liszt's Sonata in B minor played by Vladimir Horowitz in 1930's -

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    My first Barber recording - still my favorite.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Vesteralen View Post
    ... if you insist on making me take only one LP of the 3 in this set, it would be the one with the Overtures to Rienzi and The Flying Dutchman and the Faust Overture.
    In order to keep this thread fresh, I'd strongly recommend limiting it to one LP/CD/Unit per composer- or it'll only be a matter of time before some wag suggests the Philips Complete Mozart Edition, or one of those 100+ CD Brilliant Edition boxes.
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    I have a number of favourite recordings of Schoenberg's music, but this one is always in the player. Pierrot Lunaire, the song-cycle Stravinsky called the solar plexus of Twentieth Century music, sung by Jane Manning with the Nash Ensemble under a young Simon Rattle back in the 1970's. On Chandos label, with Webern's Concerto as a filler. When I first heard it, I was shocked by this very vicious femme fatale, but in recent years I have grown to hear more of the subtleties of this masterpiece.

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    Without thinking too much:

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