Desert Island Discs
Mar 13th 2007 | 6:50 am
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Mar 13th 2007 | 7:01 am
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Re: Desert Island Discs
Used to quite like DIDs when Sue Lawley did it... the sound of lazy Sunday mornings before the Archers omnibus spurred me into action to turn the radio off and get on with something more useful. So I'm a sad enough git to have my list ready...
1. Mozart's Requiem - specifically, the Tuba Mirum sung by Robert Lloyd with the Academy of St Martin-in-the-Fields under Neville Mariner - moves me to tears nearly every time I hear it
2. Chopin - any compilation of Etudes, Nocturnes and Polonaises played by Maurizio Pollini
3. Ben Folds Five - Kate (from Whatever And Ever Amen)
4. Dave Brubeck Quartet - Unsquare Dance (from Time Out: Time Further Out)
5. Duke Ellington & Johnny Hodges - Basin St Blues (from Back to Back)
6. Ella Fitzgerald - One for my Baby... (from The Intimate Ella)
7. Handel - Dixit Dominus
8. Mahler - symphony number 5
Of those, I'd keep the Ben Folds Five - for sentimental reasons and in case OH (whose name you may be able to guess...) ever reads this post
For my book, I'd have Proust - if only because it's got lots of pages that I could use to write messages on if I ever found a stash of bottles...
Luxury item I think would have to be a piano with a decent supply of sheet music - I can't cope with more than one line of music at a time (singer/trumpeter) but could probably teach myself given enough time, though never to the brilliance of Pollini.
1. Mozart's Requiem - specifically, the Tuba Mirum sung by Robert Lloyd with the Academy of St Martin-in-the-Fields under Neville Mariner - moves me to tears nearly every time I hear it
2. Chopin - any compilation of Etudes, Nocturnes and Polonaises played by Maurizio Pollini
3. Ben Folds Five - Kate (from Whatever And Ever Amen)
4. Dave Brubeck Quartet - Unsquare Dance (from Time Out: Time Further Out)
5. Duke Ellington & Johnny Hodges - Basin St Blues (from Back to Back)
6. Ella Fitzgerald - One for my Baby... (from The Intimate Ella)
7. Handel - Dixit Dominus
8. Mahler - symphony number 5
Of those, I'd keep the Ben Folds Five - for sentimental reasons and in case OH (whose name you may be able to guess...) ever reads this post
For my book, I'd have Proust - if only because it's got lots of pages that I could use to write messages on if I ever found a stash of bottles...
Luxury item I think would have to be a piano with a decent supply of sheet music - I can't cope with more than one line of music at a time (singer/trumpeter) but could probably teach myself given enough time, though never to the brilliance of Pollini.
Mar 13th 2007 | 7:11 am
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Re: Desert Island Discs
Any Status Quo track 
and a wilson ball, didn't do Tom any harm
and a wilson ball, didn't do Tom any harm
Mar 13th 2007 | 7:35 am
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Mar 13th 2007 | 7:51 am
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Re: Desert Island Discs
Due to the way your original question question was phrased I will Take (almost) my entire CD collection which is diverse, eclectic and sitting in a VERY LARGE CD autochanger
AND
for my luxury item .....................................
Sunshine Ski Resort.
AND
for my luxury item .....................................
Sunshine Ski Resort.
Mar 13th 2007 | 8:20 am
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Re: Desert Island Discs
Judas Priest it's like herding a swarm of eels. If out of your huge eclectic collection you had to select 1 piece of music WHAT WOULD IT BE?
Mar 13th 2007 | 10:04 am
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Re: Desert Island Discs
Meg Ryan.
And I'll exchange the music for a bottle of baby oil.
And I'll exchange the music for a bottle of baby oil.
Mar 14th 2007 | 1:51 am
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Re: Desert Island Discs
Used to quite like DIDs when Sue Lawley did it... the sound of lazy Sunday mornings before the Archers omnibus spurred me into action to turn the radio off and get on with something more useful. So I'm a sad enough git to have my list ready...
1. Mozart's Requiem - specifically, the Tuba Mirum sung by Robert Lloyd with the Academy of St Martin-in-the-Fields under Neville Mariner - moves me to tears nearly every time I hear it
2. Chopin - any compilation of Etudes, Nocturnes and Polonaises played by Maurizio Pollini
3. Ben Folds Five - Kate (from Whatever And Ever Amen)
4. Dave Brubeck Quartet - Unsquare Dance (from Time Out: Time Further Out)
5. Duke Ellington & Johnny Hodges - Basin St Blues (from Back to Back)
6. Ella Fitzgerald - One for my Baby... (from The Intimate Ella)
7. Handel - Dixit Dominus
8. Mahler - symphony number 5
Of those, I'd keep the Ben Folds Five - for sentimental reasons and in case OH (whose name you may be able to guess...) ever reads this post
For my book, I'd have Proust - if only because it's got lots of pages that I could use to write messages on if I ever found a stash of bottles...
Luxury item I think would have to be a piano with a decent supply of sheet music - I can't cope with more than one line of music at a time (singer/trumpeter) but could probably teach myself given enough time, though never to the brilliance of Pollini.
1. Mozart's Requiem - specifically, the Tuba Mirum sung by Robert Lloyd with the Academy of St Martin-in-the-Fields under Neville Mariner - moves me to tears nearly every time I hear it
2. Chopin - any compilation of Etudes, Nocturnes and Polonaises played by Maurizio Pollini
3. Ben Folds Five - Kate (from Whatever And Ever Amen)
4. Dave Brubeck Quartet - Unsquare Dance (from Time Out: Time Further Out)
5. Duke Ellington & Johnny Hodges - Basin St Blues (from Back to Back)
6. Ella Fitzgerald - One for my Baby... (from The Intimate Ella)
7. Handel - Dixit Dominus
8. Mahler - symphony number 5
Of those, I'd keep the Ben Folds Five - for sentimental reasons and in case OH (whose name you may be able to guess...) ever reads this post
For my book, I'd have Proust - if only because it's got lots of pages that I could use to write messages on if I ever found a stash of bottles...
Luxury item I think would have to be a piano with a decent supply of sheet music - I can't cope with more than one line of music at a time (singer/trumpeter) but could probably teach myself given enough time, though never to the brilliance of Pollini.
Mar 14th 2007 | 2:01 am
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