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1.
Maurice Ravel
Sonatine for Piano - 2nd movement
Soloist: Paul Crossley
Sir Michael Tippett
Broadcast
First broadcast: Sat 05 Jan 1985
Composer
Sir Michael Tippett, who celebrated his 80th birthday three days ago, has come to be regarded as one of the foremost composers of this century. As he tells Roy Plomley, other than a period as Director of Music at Morley College, he has allowed very little to distract him from composition. His output includes four symphonies, four operas, four string quartets and several concertos.
[Taken from the original programme material for this archive edition of Desert Island Discs]
Choices
2.
Hector Berlioz
Harold in the Mountains (from Harold in Italy)
Orchestra: London Symphony Orchestra Conductor: Colin Davis
3.
Castaway's favourite
Claudio Monteverdi
Vespers 1610
Orchestra: Taverner Consort Choir: Taverner Choir with Taverner Players Conductor: andrew Parrott
7.
Sir Michael Tippett
Song No. 2 (from Songs for Dov)
Artist: Robert Tear Orchestra: London Sinfonietta
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Broadcast
First broadcast: Mon 29 Apr 1968
Composer
Roy Plomley's castaway is composer Sir Michael Tippett.
Choices
2.
Henry Purcell
When I am laid in earth (Dido's Lament) (from Dido and Aeneas)
Soloist: Kirsten Flagstad Orchestra: Mermaid Orchestra
3.
Richard Wagner
Dawn and Siegfried's Rhine Journey (from Götterdämmerung)
Orchestra: Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra Conductor: Wilhelm Furtwängler
7.
Charles Ives
Fourth Of July
Orchestra: New York Philharmonic Orchestra Conductor: Leonard Bernstein
8.
Igor Stravinsky
Symphonies of Wind Instruments
Orchestra: Orchestre de la Suisse Romande Conductor: Ernest Ansermet
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