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Luciano Pavarotti

Roy Plomley's castaway is tenor Luciano Pavarotti.

Favourite track: Symphony No. 40 In G Minor by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Book: Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri
Luxury: Bicycle

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Mon 16 Feb 1976 12:25
BBC Radio 4

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Music Played

  • Castaway's Favourite

    • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

      Symphony No. 40 In G Minor

      Orchestra: London Symphony Orchestra Conductor: Carlo Maria Giulini

  • Enrico Caruso

    Magiche Note (from The Queen Of Sheba)

  • Christoph Willibald Gluck

    Che farò senza Euridice (What is Life?) (from Orpheus and Euridice)

    Soloist: Tito Schipa

  • Gaetano Donizetti

    Pour mon âme (Qual destino) (from The Daughter of the Regiment)

    Soloist: Joan Sutherland, Luciano Pavarotti Orchestra: Royal Opera House Orchestra, Covent Garden Conductor: Richard Bonynge

  • Gaetano Donizetti

    Era d'amor l'immagine (from Maria Stuarda)

    Soloist: Luciano Pavarotti Orchestra: Teatro Communale Orchestra Conductor: Richard Bonynge

  • Ludwig van Beethoven

    Symphony No. 6 in F major 'Pastoral'

    Orchestra: Cleveland Philharmonic Orchestra Conductor: Georg Solti

  • Modest Mussorgsky

    Unhatched chicks (from Pictures at an Exhibition)

    Orchestra: Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra Conductor: Zubin Mehta

  • Giuseppe Verdi

    Dies irae (from Requiem Mass)

    Orchestra: Philharmonia Orchestra and Chorus Conductor: Carlo Maria Giulini

  • Book Choice

    • Divine Comedy - Dante Alighieri

  • Luxury Choice

    • Bicycle

Credits

Presenter Roy Plomley
Interviewed Guest Luciano Pavarotti

Broadcasts

  • Sat 14 Feb 1976 19:00
    BBC Radio 4
  • Mon 16 Feb 1976 12:25
    BBC Radio 4

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