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Greg Cahill Moderator	posted 04-24-2002 01:25 PM You're trapped on that proverbial desert island. Now select the 10 essential string recordings—classical, jazz, traditional, et al—that you must have to inspire or console you during that long, lonely stay.
DeepBlue Member	posted 04-25-2002 03:41 PM Perlman's recording of the Bach sonatas and partitas Jay Unger and Molly Mason - The Lover's Waltz [This message has been edited by DeepBlue (edited 04-25-2002).]
guarneri Member	posted 05-03-2002 10:50 AM I love hearing answers to this question. 1. Bach Cello Suites, YoYo Ma on DVD 2. Complete Mahler Symphonies 3. Heifetz Encores 4. "The Art of Violin" on DVD 5. Complete Beethoven Quartets 6. Complete Mozart Quintets 7. Prokofiev Violin Concertos 8. Dvorak Cello Concerto 9. Bach Cello Suites on Bass, Edgar Meyer 10. Viola Concertos, William Primrose I would like to add a list of music that I would burn on sight. Who knows. I might be able to use these for a rescue beacon, get off this deserted island, get back to the mainland and play quartets again....LOL 1. Pachelbel's Cannon 2. Ravel's Bolero 3. 1812 Overture (the short version) 4. William Tell Overture OK, it is a short list. Guarneri
Young Player Member	posted 05-06-2002 02:13 PM 1. Elgar: Cello Concerto--my orchestra's recording 2. Elgar: Violin Concerto--Perlman recording 3. Grieg: Peer Gynt 4. Fiddler's Hall of Fame (Heah, I gotta have some dancing music for excercise 5. Chausson: Poeme--Perlman recording 6. Brahms: Violin Concerto 7. Tchaikovsky: Violin Concerto 8. Bernstein: Serenade 9: Mendelssohn: Violin Concerto 10: Mozart: Violin Concerto #4
ludwig Member	posted 08-10-2002 03:16 PM Goodness!!Seems several cellists responded. My list is somewhat more symphonic: 1. Beethoven 9th Symphony 2. Handel Messiah 3. Brahms 2nd Piano concerto 4. Brahms Double Concerto Violin & Cello 5. Brahms 4th Symphony 6. Brahms Violin Concerto 7. Beethoven Violin Concerto 8. Stravinsky, Rite Of Spring 9. Shostokovitch, Cello Concerto 10,Rogers & Hammerstein, Oklahoma
ludwig Member	posted 08-10-2002 03:25 PM If I could erase what I wrote, I would. I didn't read the instructions well enough to notice it said string recordings. 1. Brahms 2nd Piano Concerto (If piano considered a stringed instrument) 2. Brahms Double Concerto, Violin & Cello 3. Brahms Violin Concerto 4. Beethoven Violin Concerto 5. Shostokovich Cello Concerto 6. Mozart Violin & Viola Double concerto but called something else. Symphonia concertante 7. Mendelssohn violin concerto 8. Bruch G minor concerto 9. Khatchaturian violin concerto 10.Lalo, Symphony Espagnole.
ludwig Member	posted 08-10-2002 04:12 PM Since we are having fun and this doesn't cost anything...here are the pieces I would put at the bottom of my list of 100: Tchaikowsky Violin Concerto Grieg, Violin, Piano Sonata Dvorak, Cello concerto Rachmaninov Cello Sonata (with piano) Kabalevsky Cello Concerto Schumann, Cello concerto Paganini Second Violin Concerto Bruch, Scottish Fantasy for Violin Debussy String Quartets Franck, Violin/Piano Sonata Brahms, Violin/Piano Sonatas...all of them. Brahms, Violin,Piano, French Horn trio. Brahms, Cello, Piano, clarinet trio. Prokofiev, Cello/Piano Sonatas.
Rachel Lackmeyer Member	posted 08-13-2002 12:52 AM Ok, i'll put my 10 that i'll need and the 10 that I would kill myself if thats all i had. Good 10.Beethoven Symphonies 9.Sibealius symphonies 1&2 8.Beethoven Quartets (expecially later ones.) 7.Puccini Operas 6.Rachmoninov piano concertos 5.Elgar Enigma Variations 4.Elgar Cello Concerto 3.Shostakovich Quartets 2. Bruch Vln concerto, g minor 1. Barbers Adagio BAD (or in the least music that has been overplayed and has begun to irritate me) 10. Mendholsenn Vln Concerto (really,just 1st mvmnt) 9.Hadyn Quartets 8.Mozart Quartets 7.Flute concertos. Any and all of them. I hate playing them, i hate listening to them. 6.Massenet's Meditation (I loved playing it, but after sitting through about 10 performances of this piece in one night, i thought i was gonna kill myself) 5.Saint-Seans Cello Concerto 4.Mozart vln concerto, #3 3.Hadyn Vln Concerto, G magor 2.Coplands Hoe-Down (love the rest of Rodeo, just not Hoe-Down!) 1. Handel's Messiah (you would not beleive the amount of times i have had to endure this thing.)
Tom Member	posted 08-13-2002 09:18 AM Here are my choices. Preferred soloists indicated in parentheses) 1. Bach Sonatas and Partitas for solo violin (Henryk Szerying) 2. Beethoven violin concerto 3. Bach Cello Suites (Casals) 4. Beethoven Cello sonata #3 (Casals/Serkin) 5. Beethoven violin sonatas 6. Bach violin and harpsichord sonatas (Grumiaux/Jaccotet) 7. Mozart sinfonia concertante 8. Dvorak violin concerto 9. Dvorak cello concerto (Feuermann) 10. Beethoven Archduke Trio (Stern/Rose/Istomin)
Steve_W Member	posted 08-13-2002 04:13 PM I'm primarily a Scottish fiddler and I think these 10 recordings of Scottish, Irish and Cape Breton fiddlers could keep me happy: 1. Alasdair Fraser, "Skyedance" 2. Natalie MacMaster, "In My Hands" 3. Liz Carroll, "Lost in the Loop" 4. Tabache, "Waves of Rush" 5. Various, "Heat the Hoose II" 6. Jerry Holland "Fiddlesticks Collection" 7. John Carty, "Yeh, That's all it is" 8. Blazin Fiddles, "Blazin Fiddles" 9. De Dannann, "How the West was Won" 10. Jennifer and Hazel Wrigley, "Huldreland" -Steve

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