http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/features/desert-island-discs
At last, after all these years, an invitation from the BBC to choose my Desert Island Discs. I've done it several times since the 1970's and the old website had a regular feature with guests sharing their eight records, book and luxury. And now we can all have a go.
I'm not sure how many of mine will make it onto a most popular eight but, with apologies to Handel, Marc Bolan, Al Green, Francois Couperin, Gregory Isaacs, Deitrich Buxtehude, The Velvet Underground, Puccini and the whole of Tamla Motown except Diana Ross, all of who were well in contention, I went for-
Thomas Tallis, Spem in Alium
Monteverdi, Vespers 1610
Bach, The Well-Tempered Klavier
Aretha Franklin, One Step Ahead
The Magnetic Fields, All My Little Words
Mozart, Soave il vento
Diana Ross, I'm Still Waiting
Josquin Desprez, Deploration sur la mort de Johannes Ockeghem
David Green
- David Green (Books) is the imprint under which I published booklets of my own poems. The original allocation of ISBN numbers is used up now, though. The 'Collected Poems' are now available as a pdf. The website is now what it has become, often more about music than books and not so often about poems. It will be about whatever suggests itself.
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Monday, 30 May 2011
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