Busch Quartet — Artist · desert is.land

desert is.landest. 1942

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desert is.land

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Busch Quartet — Artist · desert is.land

desert is.landest. 1942

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Artist

Busch Quartet

9 episodes

Chosen over the decades

9

Total castaways

1990s

Peak decade

5

Decades seen

Castaways who chose this

Alfred Brendel
Andras Schiff
Barry Tuckwell
Carlo Maria Giulini
Mitsuko Uchida
Sir Ernst Gombrich
Sir Isaiah Berlin
Steven Isserlis

Alfred Brendel
Alfred Brendel on seeing Hitler’s motorcade as a child
Castaway · 15 November 2013Kirsty Young
Steven Isserlis
Steven Isserlis on comparing listening to his own recordings to a dog sniffing the pavement
Castaway · 2 December 2007Kirsty Young

desert is.land

“And if you could take only one…” — a semantic wireless tuned to the Desert Island Discs archive.

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Transmission

Broadcasting since 1942
Long wave 198 kHz
An unofficial archive companion
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Not affiliated with the BBC · Built for the love of the long wave · Made by Daniel Hails

Andras Schiff on starting every day by playing Bach

Castaway · 7 February 1999Sue Lawley

18°17′S 169°45′W

Mitsuko Uchida

Mitsuko Uchida on answering her brother's piano questions at three

Castaway · 28 April 1996Sue Lawley

Sir Ernst Gombrich

10°21′S 027°10′W

Sir Ernst Gombrich

Ernst Gombrich on dictating The Story of Art without a draft

Castaway · 5 April 1992Sue Lawley

Sir Isaiah Berlin

12°40′S 010°54′W

Sir Isaiah Berlin

Isaiah Berlin on his grandmother suggesting he change his name

Castaway · 15 March 1992Sue Lawley

15°06′S 150°35′W

Barry Tuckwell

How Barry Tuckwell joined the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra as third horn at 15

Castaway · 5 February 1977Roy Plomley

21°31′S 170°40′W

Alfred Brendel

Alfred Brendel on being forced to remove his tails after a piano stool mishap

Castaway · 20 November 1971Roy Plomley

Carlo Maria Giulini

20°35′S 035°36′W

Carlo Maria Giulini

Carlo Maria Giulini on his first concert after the liberation of Rome

Castaway · 19 August 1968Roy Plomley