Pierre Boulez

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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

Pierre Boulez — Composer · desert is.land

Composer

4 episodes

Chosen over the decades

Total castaways

2000s

Peak decade

Decades seen

Castaways who chose this

Daniel Barenboim
Daniel Barenboim on only taking records out of politeness
Castaway · 7 May 2006Sue Lawley
John Bird
John Bird on performing when no one else would for the money
Castaway · 28 May 2000Sue Lawley
Nicholas Snowman

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

Nicholas Snowman on his Cambridge sadness that music might not exist anymore

Castaway · 28 October 1990Sue Lawley

02°24′S 065°20′W

Raymond Leppard on the fire that destroyed his Monteverdi score

Castaway · 4 March 1972Roy Plomley