No it wasn't! OK, here are my two and a half out of that lot: Mozart's Serenade for 13 Wind Instruments, K.361 (Gran Partita me arse!), The Eroica and Kreisleriana. Remembering, of course, that they're in my desert island list cos I love 'em and cos they mean a lot to me, not because I think they are in the top ten most important pieces of all time (though I reckon the Eroica definitely is). I count the Eroica as my "half" because I desperately want to take Carlos Kleiber's "Pastoral" with me, I have to have a late quartet (if you ask me which one you might end up with a ruminative essay and no conclusion), and I can't really stuff my "eight" with a surfeit of Ludwig. Robert Schumann is, to me, one of the most underrated romantic composers, too much overshadowed by the rather cold (to me) Chopin. Kreisleriana is an amazing fantasy. I had a record of Martha Argerich's version, which I loved, but I once heard, on the Beeb, an old recording of Benno Moiseiwitsch playing it that almost had me crying into my owld wireless. In spite of his name he was a British national and his playing on the wireless during the war did a massive amount for the boosting of morale. His performances were incredibly "human" and it's odd, and sad, that he hardly ever gets a mention these days. The Mozart serenade is just an amazing masterpiece of his early maturity, along with Gawd knows how many sublime piano concertos and (almost the best of the lot for me) the Sinfonia Concertante for violin and viola, with its frank homage to Bach. Right up there with Bach's concerto for two violins it is. I hope this meets with your approval. I tried listening to the Turangalila Symphony once, and I did get through it, but I needed a stiff malt to purge me poor overstimulated brain afterwards.