wiseone2

Well, here goes-
Quartet for the end of Time-Messiaen /Tashi
Blumine-Mahler/ Philadelphia Orchestra/ Gil Johnson
Quiet City-Copland/ Harry Glantz
Turandot-Puccini/ Björling
On the Waterfront-Bernstein/ NYP/ Vacchiano
Daphnis and Chloe-Ravel/BSO/ Voisin
Parsifal Prelude-Wagner/ Philadelphia/Krauss!

That's a start.

Wilmer

robertwhite

1. Quartet F.T.E.O.T.- Messiaen/ Tashi (good choice, Wilmer!)

2. Tehillim - Reich/ Steve Reich and Musicians

3. Sibelius 5/ BPO - HVK (thanks Glenn Gould!)

4. Radiohead - OK Computer

5. Diary of One Who Disappeared (get it?) - Janacek/ Ian Bostridge

6. Alison Krauss and Union Station - Lonely Runs Both Ways

7. Alan Lomax Collection Sampler

8. Blonde on Blonde - Dylan

9. Clifford Brown with Strings

tromj

1. Will The Circle Be Unbroken- If you have to listen to traditional Country, this is a good way to go. nitty gritty Dirt Band hosts Lester Flatt, Earl Scruggs, Merle Travis, Mother Maybelle Carter, Doc Watson, Vassar Clements, Jimmy martin, and my favorite, Roy Acuff. good honest music.

2. Weavers at Carnegie Hall.

3. Blue Train, John Coltrane

4. Music of Gabrieli. Yes, that recording.

5. Ella and Louis.

6. Kind of Blue.

7. Brown Roach Quintet.

8. Ellington, Paris 1963

9. mahler 3, NY philharmonic with Bernstein and Phil Smith

10. Mahler 5, Solti and CSO, early 1970's

JackD

Oh dear, I just relistened to the Bernstein / NYPO Sony recording of Mahler 7 (with Vacchiano) and desperately want to add that to my list, but I've already got 8. This is hard!

bftrumpet

I'll give this a shot: here goes,

1. I'll have to agree with Ed and bring my Sergei Rachmaninov: Vespers with the Robert Shaw Chorale. This could be my favorite recording. I love the sound of the human voice, so pure and rich!

2. Sticking with the vocal theme I'll go with Chanticleer: Wonderous Love; a great disc of a capella folk songs

3. One more vocal disc The King's Singers: Annie Laurie, Folksongs of the British Isles; another great a capella disc of some of the world's great folk songs

4. Phil Smith and the NY Staff Band, My Song of Songs; for me, this is the trumpet disc for quality of sound, period. I have worn this disc out and have even began performing several of the selections on the disc and trying to do them justice.

5. Robert Sullivan: Treasures for Trumpet; I love the selections Bob Sullivan chose to put on this recording, esp. the opera arias towards the end of the disc! Bravo!

6. German Brass: Bach 2000; WOW!!!!!

7. Mahler 2/NY Bernstein from the 1980s on DG label; I love the Mahler symphonies and this one is particularly good for me

8. Mahler 3/NY Bernstein from the 1980s on DG label; see above

9. Pines of Rome/ Philadelphia w/Ormandy; nothing like having my old teacher Mr. Gilbert Johnson singing that offstage solo

10. Wagner/ Highlights from the Ring/ NY with Zubin Mehta; during Siegfried's Funeral Music, Mr. Smith plays the richest low C I have ever heard!! The rest of the disc is fantastic!

I'll stop there, I could go on and on but how many discs could you get on your deserted island!! :)

Ben Fairfield

tptshark

This almost went in the too hard basket! but here goes...

in no particular order:

Kind of Blue - Miles
because for me it captures the very essence of jazz

Rite of Spring - boulez with cleveland orchestra
because the combination of precision and musicianship astounds me every time i here it

Corelli violin sonatas - the locatelli trio
because it is THE most musical recording i have ever heard, and stirs my sould at every listening. everything is right in the world after listening to this disc.

Maurice Andre - the trumpet shall sound
for the sound of angels!

haydn string quartets - not sure which quartet, maybe emerson
i would love the time on a desert island to truly work out, and thoroughly understand these gems of composition.

radiohead - hail to the theif
because it is all 'pop' music can be and more

berg violin concerto - isaac stern w. berstien and the NY phil.
for the feeling of peace i get as the clarinets quote bach, and for the masterful interpretation of mr. stern.

big band - count basie band (the album with the black cover)
coz sometimes you just have to swing!

a book: i would probably spend most time with the shakespeare, but would like to use the time on an island to try and get my head around james joyce - ulysees

a luxury: my trumpet

Great topic EC!!

- Adrian

Anonymous

Great post!

1. Barber Violin Concerto-Hilary Hahn-Wolfe/St. Paul Chamber Orchestra

2. Barber Knoxville Summer of 1915-Dawn Upshaw-Zinman/Orchestra of St. Luke's

3. Bach Brandenburg Concerti-Lincoln Center Chamber Music Society-Bilger

4. Wagner Parsifal-Levine/MET

5. Dave Matthews "Live at Luther College"

6. Ella Fitzgerald-WHATEVER!!!!

7. Mahler 6-Israel Philharmonic-Mehta/Balio 1st trpt

8. Gould "Trumpet Recital"

9. American Brass Quintet "Fyre and Lighting"

10. Frank Sinatra-ANYTHING!!!!

ecarroll

. . . just back from a day in Montreal, meeting some new students and hanging with Paul Merkelo, Russ DeVuyst, and Bob Gibson (great fun). Lots of posts to respond here and thanks to all that have responded so far.


TptMike,

Yes my choices changed. I change opinions more often than underwear.
Wilmer and Manny remember when I was a student at Juilliard and thought that I knew everything there was to know about music. Funny. . . I got older and learned that I was (buzzt!) wrong.


JackD,

Do you know the cellist Matt Haimovitz? (coincidentally also at McGill). Matt abandoned a career playing the war-horse concerti with the "A List" orchestras, recording with DG, etc., to play Bach cello Suites (and new music written by friends) in more intimate jazz club settings. Career suicide for some and a total smash for him. 'nuff said (bowing to an inspired choice).


Pat,

I didn't "get" Bitches Brew when it was released. Now I think that I do.


Wilmer,

Have you heard Messiaen's opera Saint Francis d'Assise? It almost bankrupted the San Francisco Opera two seasons ago, but what a score!


Bob,

Did you know that Steve Reich lives in White River Jct. Vermont? I'm in third place in the local musician pecking order after Steve and Bob Brookmeyer. I know. We share the same accountant.


Tromj,

Do you know any of the music of Ruth Crawford Seeger? (mother of Pete and a pioneer of American music). If not, you should, for Petessake...


bft,

I like trumpet music but love vocal music.


Shark,

The Berg Concerto makes my list too. No Australian composers? Schulthorp? (renaissance man)


Pibidy,

I didn't know that Glenn Gould played the trumpet too.

Oh.

Mark.

Nevermind.



Best,
EC (mediaeval man)

ubieday

In no particular order, just as it comes to mind:

1) Dave Douglas -- The Infinite. What a great disk. Definately a nod to Miles, yet different. Dave Douglas is just so real, so innovative. This album is SO good from start to finish.

2) Niklas Eklund and Suzanne Ryden -- Baroque music for trpt, vol. 3. I could listen to this over and over. The first track, Eternal Source of Light Divine, is divine indeed. I love the sound of period instruments, and no one plays like Eklund. His mastery of the horn on track 6 is absolutely frightening.

3) Gerard Schwarz -- The sound of trumpets. Shwarz had a way with the trumpet. Each piece on this disk kas so much energy, so much joy. Always buoyant. You've got to love his approach to ornamentation. It's all his.

4) Wynton Marsalis -- Live at Blues Alley. Wynton wails on this recording. I don't know how many hundred times I've listened to it (I haven't listened to it for years, actually, but did in my earlier days)

5) Joe Henderson -- Big Band. I can't get anough of this album. Faddis shows why he is in charge. And there is some Lew Soloff. Nicholas Payton and even Freddie Hubbard solo on this disk. But Joe Henderson is still the best part, along with the stellar arrangements of his tunes.

6) Miles -- Relaxin ("I'll play it and tell you what it is later!" "Block chords, Red. Block chords."). I'd have to take workin, cookin, and steamin as well.

7) John Elliot Gardiner -- B Minor Mass. Archiv Label. This has got to be (and I think this has been said plenty of times before) single greatest piece of music produced by western civilization. It is exhilerating.

8) CSO and Solti -- Brukner 7. This was my first introduction to Herseth. A very special recording.

9) Center City Brass Quintet -- Brass Quintets. Played perfectly by two real current stars in the trumpet world, Tony DiLorenzo and Ryan Anthony. Those two show that they can do more than play flashy. They are top shelf musicians who know how to balance, blend, and execute quintet playing flawlessly.

10) Hakan Hardenberger -- Haydn, Hummel, Hertel, Stamitz. My favorite recording of all these works. Hakan is THE man for so many reasons. His sound is so dense, yet brilliant at the same time. He is a great interpreter.

11) Dizzy Gillespie -- Gillespiana. Why isn't this album more popular? It's almost like a Dizzy version of Miles and Gil.

12) The Lincoln Center Jazz Orchestra -- They Came to Swing. And Swing they do. Wynton blows off the roof in so many ways on this recording, but there is also great Ellington enseble work, and a Faddis solo on Dizzy's Things to Come that is never to be forgotton. But the best part of the album is the first track. If you haven't heard this recording, with Lew S. playing the solo part, GET IT.

13) Feels like a sin to not mention Clifford, Louis, Freddie with Art Blakey (the Caravan recording is the greatest), Lee, etc., etc. But we all tend to cycle through things. The above were the things that came to mind the fastest.

Better stop.

ecarroll

Ubie,

Great choices. However, Gerry's "Sound of Trumpets" is an aural testament to the art of bad second trumpet playing. Somebody shoot that guy.

EC