[denydenydeny]

Much more standard tastes for me, I'm afraid.

1) Beethoven's Ninth Symphony.
2) Handel's Messiah
3) Tchaikovsky's 1812 Overture
4) Pachelbel's Canon
5) Handel's Watermusic
6) Puccini's Turandot
7) Bach's Jesu, the Joy of Man's Desiring
8) Bizet's Carmen
9) Bach's Brandenburg Concerto # 3
10)Verdi's Requiem

[Pharmboy]

It is hard to argue with many of your choices; personally, I just think that some of the greatest pieces ever written (Ludwig's Number 9, for instance) are played soo much that they've taken themselves out of this realm. Pachabel's Canon is in the same category, IMO. I remember the first time I heard that...it was like "Where have you been all my life?"

[johnboy]

Bach's Jesu, the Joy of Man's Desiring

concur. also, now that i think about it, and in a similar vein ... let's see. schuberts ave maria, sheep may safely graze, panis angelicus (franch?), o mio babbino caro (sp?) by puccini, pueri concinte by ??hmm, and perhaps handel's largo from xerxes (sp?), oh, too, the second movement from ???, y'know, in the hall of the mountain kings, and all that.

[jammer]

Assume you meant the cantata for Jesu. I don't think Myra Hess transcribed it until the 20th century.

[k2blader]

"Standard tastes" can oft equal "Classic tastes." :)

Great picks!

P.S. Anyone know of a good cello rendition of "Jesu, Joy of Man's Desiring"?

[Enchante]

Puccini’s Turandot

Sorry, not pre-1900, but maybe we’ll let you have it if you really do get stranded on a desert island (Puccini was born in 1858 but Turandot was written in the 1920s and premiered in 1926 after his death).

[RavenATB]

“1) Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony.
2) Handel’s Messiah
3) Tchaikovsky’s 1812 Overture
4) Pachelbel’s Canon
5) Handel’s Watermusic
6) Puccini’s Turandot
7) Bach’s Jesu, the Joy of Man’s Desiring
8) Bizet’s Carmen
9) Bach’s Brandenburg Concerto # 3
10)Verdi’s Requiem

I could skip #6, but the rest of your list is outstanding.