Your Desert Island Discs October 2024
It's October 2024 and the world is falling apart. For fun, I thought I would bring back Desert Island Discs.
A "castaway" selects eight musical tracks, a non practical luxury, and a book (excluding the Bible, Shakespeare, and the Encyclopedia Britannica). to accompany them on a Desert Island.
1. Let There Be Love by Nat King Cole
2. Schubert Piano Trio No. 1 (second movement). Performed by Isaac Stern, Eugene Istomin, and Leonard Rose
3. Brahms Symphony No. 3. (third movement) Performed by the Berlin Philharmonic, conducted by Claudio Abbado
4. Firefly by Tony Bennett
5. Sibelius Symphony No. 4. (first movement) Performed by the Helsinki Philharmonic, conducted by Leif Segerstam
6. Mahler – Symphony No. 7. (third movement) Performed by the London Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Michael Tilson Thomas
7. The Land of Might Have Been by Ivor Novello, from Gosford Park (2001), sung by Jeremy Northam
8. Rachmaninov Piano Concerto No. 2. (second movement) Performed by Vladimir Ashkenazy and the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, conducted by Bernard Haitink
Luxury: Endless cases of Bordeaux
Book: A Room with a View by E.M. Forster
| by Anonymous | reply 5 | October 15, 2024 7:02 PM
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1. I Found Love / Lone Justice
2. They Don't Know / Tracey Ullman
3. Jackie / Blue Zone UK
4. Seattle / The BPA
5. Famous Blue Raincoat / Leonard Cohen
6. Summertime / Sharon Robinson
7. Deeper and Deeper / Madonna
8. You Are My World / Communards
Luxury: A pillow top California king bed with brand new Pratesi linens changed daily
Book: Edie: An American Biography by Jean Stein
| by Anonymous | reply 2 | October 15, 2024 6:19 PM
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R2 Nice modern and hip modern songs!
| by Anonymous | reply 3 | October 15, 2024 6:25 PM
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They ARE Your Desert Island Discs!
| by Anonymous | reply 4 | October 15, 2024 6:28 PM
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1. Lacrimosa from the Mozart Requiem
2. Ave Maria by Vavilov, choral
3. Rachmaninoff, Sonata in G Minor for Cello and Piano, Op. 19, III, Adante
4. Howard Hanson, Symphony No. 2, Op 30 "Romantic" - 1. Adagio
5. Rachmaninoff, Morceaux de fantasie, OP. 3:1 Elegie in E-Flat Minor
6. Rachmanioff, Rhapsody on a theme of Paganini, Op. 43, Variation 18
7. Saint Saens: Concerto No. 2 for Piano and Orchestra
8. Handel: The Messiah
Luxury: lifetime supply of Ketel One Vodka, lemon twists and dry vermouth, ice to make martinis with
Book: Love is a Dog From Hell, Bukowski
| by Anonymous | reply 5 | October 15, 2024 7:02 PM
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