Christopher Webber ([log in to unmask]) wrote:

>And to reverse the dulling negativity of this line of approach, if I were
>only *keeping* 10 CDs, then I'd consciously try to give space to some
>pieces (rather than performances) to which I'd given shortest shrift and
>from which I felt I had most to quarry.  The ones, if you like, that were
>least outside my personal "comfort zone".  That might be more interesting

Over 30 years ago the comedian John Bird was the guest on the BBC's Desert
Island Discs - which allows you 8 "gramophone records", one book (the Bible
and a complete Shakespeare are, happily, already on the island) and one
luxury.

I particularly recall one of Bird's choices being Stockhausen's
Kontrapunkte, chosen, he said, precisely because he *didn't* understand
the music.

deryk barker
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