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What are your Desert Island Discs?
Singing Ambassador Howard Goodall chose his Desert Island Discs this week. What are yours?
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My Desert Island Discs
1.Lacrimosa from Mozart’s Requiem, Music to die to….
2.Don’t think twice, it’s all right. Bob Dylan from the Freewheeling Album
3.Moonlight Serenade, Glenn Miller
4.The Nightingale, by Jacob van Eyck, solo descant recorder, played by Michala Petri
5.Angie, by Davy Graham played by the amazing Bert Jansch or Mick Holditch
6.Bach, Double violin Concerto
7.A Song Story: Anthems in Eden, Shirley and Dolly Collins, David Munrow et al. (cheating a bit, a 27 minute track of English Folk songs and early music.)
8.Copshawholme Fair: Bellowhead, featuring Jon Boden’s voice and Paul Sartin’s oboe.
i change my mind about this all the time. but right now i'm thinking:
Billie Holiday - I Loves You Porgy
Ella Fitzgerald - Lady, Be Good
Jill Scott - A Long Walk
Joni Mitchell - A Case of You
Minnie Riperton - Black Gold of the Sun
Philip Glass - String Quartet No.5
Messiaen - Quartet for the End of Time
Bjork - Anchor Song
Nice line up. Here's mine for the week, some stay some go....
Wynton Marsalis and Yacub Addy and Odadaa- Congo Square
Vin Gordon- Stepping Out
Erik Satie-Gymnopodies
Ian Brown-Golden Gaze
Mr Fingers- What About this Love
Freddie Hubbard- Prophet Jennings
Aswad- Live and Direct
UB40- One In Ten
Marvin Gaye- Ain't That Perculiar
Spanish Harlem Orchestra- Mama Guela
Just a few of my tracks would be:
Sometimes I feel like a motherless child - Joanna MacGregor/Andy Sheppard
October 17, 1988 - Keith Jarrett
I found a reason - Cat Power
Blue - Joni Mitchell
And I saw a new heaven - Edgar Bainton
Trains to Brazil - Guillemots