by Dermot Bolger. A couple risk everything to afford the house of their dreams. 
1.
Tchaikovsky
Sleeping Beauty - Introduction
Orchestra: The Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra
Dame Ninette De Valois
Broadcast
First broadcast: Sun 17 Feb 1991
Ballet mistress
The castaway in Desert Island Discs this week is Britain's most distinguished ballet mistress Dame Ninette de Valois. She first appeared on the professional stage more than 75 years ago, and her contribution to the development of ballet in this country has been phenomenal. Now in her nineties, she'll be talking to Sue Lawley about how she became the first director of the Vic Wells Ballet School in 1931 - a school which grew and changed over the years to become the Royal Ballet in 1956.
[Taken from the original programme material for this archive edition of Desert Island Discs]
Choices
3.
Benjamin Britten
The Prince Of The Pagodas
Orchestra: The Orchestra Of The Royal Opera House, Covent Garden
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Broadcast
First broadcast: Mon 04 Jul 1966
Prima ballerina
Roy Plomley's castaway is prima ballerina Dame Ninette De Valois.
Choices
1.
Castaway's favourite
Benjamin Britten
Four Sea Interludes from Peter Grimes - Dawn
Orchestra: Royal Opera House Orchestra, Covent Garden Conductor: Benjamin Britten
2.
Benjamin Britten
Their spinning wheel unwinds (from The Rape of Lucretia)
Soloist: Peter Pears, Joan Cross
4.
Gustav Mahler
Der Einsame im Herbst (from Das Lied von der Erde)
Soloist: Kathleen Ferrier Orchestra: Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra Conductor: Bruno Walter
5.
Johann Sebastian Bach/Hess
Jesu, joy of man's desiring (from Cantata No. 147)
Soloist: Dinu Lipatti
6.
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Piano Concerto No. 20 in D minor
Soloist: Geza Anda Orchestra: Salzburg Mozarteum Camerata Academica
7.
Fedor Chaliapin & the Choir of the Russian Church of the Metropolitan of Paris
The Creed
8.
Nikolai Andreyevich Rimsky-Korsakov
Final Chorus (from The Snow Maiden)
Orchestra: Chorus and Orchestra of National Opera, Belgrade
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