Desert Island Music
Submitted by janeellen on Wed, 10/13/2010 - 18:19
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- Aaron Copland: 'Appalachian Spring', 'Fanfare for the Common Man', Portraits of Freedom [James Earl Jones, Gerard Schwarz, Seattle Symphony], 'Symphony no 3'
- Abba: Super Trouper
- Alan Bennett, et al: The History Boys [London cast]
- Alban Berg: 'Lulu' (three-act version), 'Wozzeck'
- Andrew Lloyd Webber: Song & Dance [Bernadette Peters]
- Andrew Lloyd Webber/Jim Steinman: Songs from Whistle Down the Wind
- Anne Dudley, et al: The World of Jeeves & Wooster
- Antonello Venditti: Buona Domenica, Nel Paese Delle Meraviglie, Prendilo Tu Questo Frutto Amaro
- Aretha Franklin: Young, Gifted and Black
- Arthur Honegger: 'Pacific 231'
- Arvo Pärt: 'Cantus in Memoriam Benjamin Britten', 'Spiegel Im Spiegel'
- Beatles: Blue Album, Magical Mystery Tour, Red Album, Sgt Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band
- Beautiful South: Blue is the Colour, Choke
- Béla Bartók: 'The Miraculous Mandarin'
- Ben Folds: Rockin' the Suburbs, 'Jane'
- Benjamin Britten: 'Sea Interludes from Peter Grimes', 'Simple Symphony', 'Turn of the Screw', 'War Requiem'
- Bill Conti: Slow Dancing in the Big City [ost]
- Bill Whelan: Riverdance [NYC production]
- Billy Joel: 52nd Street, Cold Spring Harbour, Piano Man, The Stranger, Turnstiles
- Bix Beiderbecke: Bix Restored vols 1-5
- Books, The: music for a french elevator
- Broadside Band: Songs and Dances from Shakespeare
- Bruce Broughton: Silverado [ost], Young Sherlock Holmes
- Bruno Coulais: Coraline [ost], Les Choristes [ost]
- Carole King: Tapestry
- Carl Orff: 'Carmina Burana'
- César Franck: 'Symphony in d'
- CHH Parry: 'Jerusalem'
- Charlie Haden & Quartet West: Haunted Heart
- Claude Debusy: 'String Quartet' in g op 10
- Clifford Brown & Max Roach: At Basin Street
- Corvus Corax: Cantus Buranus, Gauda Vite, Mille anni passi sunt
- Counting Crows: Films About Ghosts: Best of
- Cranberries: Bury the Hatchet, To the Faithful Departed, Wake Up and Smell the Coffee
- Danny Elfman: Music for a Darkened Theatre vols 1 and 2, Nightmare Before Christmas [ost]
- Dario Marianelli: Atonement [ost], Pride and Prejudice [ost]
- Dave Brubeck: Time Out, Time Further Out
- David Bowie: Best of [UK edition], The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars
- David del Tredici: 'Acrostic Song', Final Alice [Barbara Hendricks, Solti, Chicago Symphony], 'In Memory of a Summer Day'
- David Munrow, Early Music Consort of London: Music of the Crusades, Music of the Gothic Era
- Divine Comedy: A Secret History: Greatest Hits, Absent Friends, Bang Goes the Knighthood, Victory for the Common Muse
- Dream Theatre: Images and Words
- Dudley Moore: Bedazzled [ost], The Dudley Moore Trio [1969]
- Eagles: 'Ballad of the Sad Café'
- Edith Piaf: 'Non, je ne regrette rien'
- Edward Elgar: 'Enigma Variations', Violin Concerto in b [Nigel Kennedy]
- Electric Light Orchestra: All Over the World, Very Best
- Elmer Bernstein: To Kill a Mockingbird [ost]
- Elton John: Candle in the Wind [HRH Diana, UK single], Goodbye Yellow Brick Road, Greatest Hits 1970-2002, The Captain and the Kid
- Elvis Costello: North, The Juliet Letters [w/Brodsky Quartet]
- Emerson, Lake & Palmer: ELP Works, Pictures at an Exhibition
- Emily Autumn: Laced/Unlaced, On a Day, Opheliac
- Emmylou Harris: Quarter Moon in a Ten Cent Town
- Erich Wolfgang Korngold: 'Violin Concerto' in D op 35
- Eva Cassidy: Eva By Heart, Live at Blues Alley, Time After Time
- Evanescence: Fallen, Origin, The Open Door
- Fairport Convention: History of, Liege & Lief
- Flanders and Swann: At the Drop of a Hat, At the Drop of Another Hat, Bestiary of Flanders and Swann
- Florence and the Machine: Lungs
- Frank Sinatra: Sinatra and Sextet Live in Paris
- Frank Zappa: Boulez Conducts Zappa: The Perfect Stranger, Works of Zappa vols 1 and 2 [LSO], Hot Rats, Joe's Garage
- Gaelic Storm: Gaelic Storm, Herding Cats
- Geoffrey Burgon: Brideshead Revisited Variations
- George Antheil: 'Ballet Mécanique'
- George Crumb: 'Vox Balanae'
- George Fenton: Shadowlands [ost]
- George Gershwin: 'Second Rhapsody'
- Giacomo Puccini: Tosca [José Carreras]
- Glenn Gould: 'So You Want to Write a Fugue'
- Giuseppe Verdi: 'La Traviata', 'Rigoletto', 'Simon Boccanegra'
- Giya Kancheli: 'Symphony no 5' [Bright Sorrow], 'Vom Winde beweint'
- Gogol Bordello: Gypsy Punks-Underdog World Strike
- Gordon Jenkins: Manhattan Tower
- Green Day: American Idiot
- Gryphon: Gryphon, Midnight Mushrumps, Raindance, Red Queen to Grypon Three, Treason
- Gustav Holst: The Planets [André Previn, LSO]
- Gustav Mahler: 'Symphony no 1'
- Hampton Hawes: Hampton Hawes Trio
- Harry Chapin: Gold Medal Collection, Story of a Life
- Harry Gregson-Williams: Kingdom of Heaven [ost]
- Henryk Mikolaj Gorecki: Symphony no 3 [Dawn Upshaw, London Sinfonietta]
- Hildegard von Bingen: A Feather on the Breath of God [Emma Kirkby, Gothic Voices]
- Igor Stravinsky: 'Petrushka'
- J S Bach: 'Brandenburg Concerto no 3'
- Jackie Gleason: Gigot [ost]
- Jamie Cullum: Catching Tales
- Jane Ellen: Following My Heart
- JATP, Jazz at the Philharmonic: Nat Cole, Lester Young
- JAW: Swings Humans
- Jeanie: Come As You Are to the Father
- Jethro Tull: Living in the Past, Minstrel in the Gallery, Songs From the Wood
- Jim Steinman: Bad for Good, Tanz der Vampire [Vienna cast], The Confidence Man
- Jim Steinman/Meat Loaf: Bat Out of Hell
- Jim Steinman/Pandora's Box: Original Sin
- Joan Tower: 'Silver Ladders'
- Johannes Brahms: 'Academic Festival Overture', 'German Requiem', 'Symphony no 3', 'Variations on a Theme by Haydn'
- John Adams: 'Shaker Loops', 'Short Ride in a Fast Machine'
- John Addison: A Bridge Too Far [ost]
- John Barry: The Lion in Winter [ost], Zulu [ost]
- John Coltrane: Blue Train, Giant Steps
- John Corigliano: Altered States [ost]
- John Gay: The Beggar's Opera [RSC, London]
- John Tams/Adrian Sutton: The War Horse [Natl Theatre, London]
- John Williams: Raiders of the Lost Ark [ost]
- Jon Lord: 'Durham Concerto'
- Jonathan Larson: RENT [Broadway cast], Tick, Tick ... Boom! [original cast]
- Karel Husa: 'Music for Prague'
- Karlheinz Stockhausen: 'Gesang der Junglinge'
- Kate Bush: Aerial, Hounds of Love, Kick Inside, Lionheart, Never for Ever, This Woman's Work
- Kate Rusby: Awkward Annie, Hourglass, Little Lights, Sleepless, Ten, The Girl Who Couldn't Fly, Underneath the Stars
- Keith Emerson: 'Piano Concerto no 1'
- Kurt Weill: 'Berlin Requiem'
- Laura Nyro: Stoned Soul Picnic
- Leonard Bernstein: Essential Leonard Bernstein, Final Concert [Beethoven Symphony no 7, Tanglewood], Mass [Alan Titus as celebrant], Symphony no 3 and Chichester Psalms [NY Phil]
- Lester Young: Blue Lester, Jazz in Paris, Trio [w/Nat Cole and Buddy Rich]
- Lionel Bart: Oliver [London Palladium revival]
- Ludwig van Beethoven: 'Fidelio', 'Symphony no 7', 'Symphony no 9', 'Wellington's Victory'
- Marvin Hamlisch: A Chorus Line [original Broadway cast]
- Maurice Jarré: 'Building the Barn' from Witness [ost]
- Maurice Ravel: 'La Valse', 'String Quartet in F'
- Menken & Schwartz: Der Glöckner von Notre Dame [European production, with alternate storyline]
- Miklós Rózsa: 'Spellbound Concerto' from Spellbound [ost]
- Miles Davis: Kinda Blue
- Murray Gold: Doctor Who Series 1-2 [ost], DW Series 3 [ost], DW Series 4 [ost], DW Series 4 Specials [ost], Vanity Fair [ost]
- Nat King Cole: Complete After Midnight Sessions
- Nick Cave: Murder Ballads, The Boatman's Call
- Nickel Creek: Why Should the Fire Die?
- NY Pro Musica: Play of Herod/Play of Daniel
- Patrick Doyle: 'Non Nobis Domine' from Henry V [ost]
- Paul McCartney: Working Classical
- Previn, Pass & Brown: After Hours
- Ralph Vaughan Williams: 'The Lark Ascending', Symphonies 1-9,
- Richard Wagner: 'Der Ring des Nibelungen'
- Sergei Prokofiev: Piano Concerto no 3 [Evgeny Kissin], 'Symphony no 5'
- Shanghai Chinese Traditional Orchestra: Tortoise: Chinese Feng Shui Music
- Steeleye Span: All Around My Hat, Bedlam Born, Hark the Village Wait, Rocket Cottage
- Stephen Oliver: Lord of the Rings [BBC Radio 4]
- Stephen Sondheim: A Little Night Music [RNT, London], Sunday in the Park with George [Mandy Patinkin, Bernadette Peters], Sweeney Todd [George Hearn, Angela Lansbury]
- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: 'Cosi Fan Tutte', 'Don Giovanni', 'Marriage of Figaro', 'Requiem'
- Vangelis: Bladerunner [ost], The Bounty [ost]
- Yann Tiersen: Amélie [ost]
- Yves Duteil: La Tarentelle
Desert Island Music is a compilation of my favourite music; some are recordings, some are individual pieces. This will be an eclectic and on-going list chronicling my adventures in music.