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Desert Island Discs - John Laurie

Original Broadcast:
BBC Radio 4, Saturday 15th May 1976

Presented by
Roy Plomley

Sent to a Desert Island and armed with eight records. John Laurie - Dad's Army's Private Frazer - explains to Roy Plomley his musical choices and the impact they have had on his life.

 

John Laurie's 8 Record Choices
Georg Solti conducting
the Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Beethoven's Overture
"Leonora" No 3
The Quanati Quartet Debussy's G Minor String Quartet -
3rd Slow Movement

Sir Adrian Boult conducting the London Philarmonic Orchestra & Chorus

Elgar's "The Music Makers"
Paul Tortelier (cello) Richard Strauss "Don Quixote"
Glasgow Orppheous Choir "Crimmond" The Lord is my Shepherd
John Laurie "My Love is Like a Red Red Rose"
Joan Hammond Dvorak's "Songs my mother taught me"
(from Gipsy songs op 55)
Death Motive "Tristan & Isolde"

John's Luxury for the Desert Island:
A Reading Lamp
John's Book for the Desert Island: Oxford Dictionary

Thanks to Carl Gresham who has provided me with the information for this page

 

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