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Giacomo Puccini
Tosca Act 2 (finale)
Soloist: Maria Callas and Tito Gobbi
Dirk Bogarde
Broadcast
First broadcast: Sun 31 Dec 1989
Hollywood film star
In this week's edition of Desert Island Discs the castaway is film actor and writer Dirk Bogarde. Among many other things, he'll be talking to Sue Lawley about why life as a national heart-throb has never really suited him, about his many years living in Provence and about the film of which he himself is most proud - Visconti's Death in Venice.
[Taken from the original programme material for this archive edition of Desert Island Discs]
Choices
2.
Raff
La Fileuse
Soloist: Yvonne Arnaud Orchestra: String Orchestra Conductor: Sir John Barbirolli
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César Franck
Symphony in D minor - 3rd movement
Orchestra: Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra Conductor: Carlo Mari Giulini
5.
Castaway's favourite
Gustav Mahler
Symphony No. 5 in C sharp minor - 4th movement (Adagietto)
Orchestra: New York Philharmonic Orchestra Conductor: Leonard Bernstein
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Franz Liszt
Piano Concerto No. 1 in E flat major
Soloist: Lazar Berman Orchestra: Vienna Symphony Orchestra Conductor: Carlo Maria Giulini
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Broadcast
First broadcast: Mon 28 Sep 1964
50s Hollywood film star
Roy Plomley's castaway is actor Dirk Bogarde.
Choices
3.
Franz Liszt
Piano Concerto No 1 in E Flat / Hungarian Fantasy
Soloist: Jorge Bolet Orchestra: Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra Conductor: Morris Stoloff
4.
Judy Garland & the Gordon Jenkins Orchestra
The Worst Kind of Man
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Franz Lehár
Vilja (from The Merry Widow)
Soloist: Elisabeth Schwarzkopf Orchestra: Philharmonia Orchestra and Chorus Conductor: Lovro von Mata?i?
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Castaway's favourite
Ludwig van Beethoven
Symphony No. 5 in C minor
Orchestra: Columbia Symphony Orchestra Conductor: Bruno Walter
Luxury item
Conversation Piece by John Singer Sargent - a painting of the Sitwells
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