Hugo Wolf

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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

Not affiliated with the BBC · Built for the love of the long wave · Made by Daniel Hails

Hugo Wolf — Composer · desert is.land

Composer

5 episodes

Chosen over the decades

Total castaways

1980s

Peak decade

Decades seen

Castaways who chose this

Christopher Lloyd
How Christopher Lloyd replaced a Lutyens rose garden with bananas and palms
Castaway · 20 August 2000Sue Lawley
Elly Ameling
Elly Ameling on Pierre Bernac’s cocker spaniel face
Castaway · 9 February 1985Roy Plomley

desert is.land

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

The listing

Transmission

Not affiliated with the BBC · Built for the love of the long wave · Made by Daniel Hails

Gyorgy Ligeti on how Stanley Kubrick used his music without permission

Castaway · 18 December 1982Roy Plomley

02°24′S 065°20′W

Raymond Leppard on the fire that destroyed his Monteverdi score

Castaway · 4 March 1972Roy Plomley

05°34′S 024°40′W

Lotte Lehmann on being frightened to death of Toscanini

Castaway · 22 June 1959Roy Plomley