Birgit Nilsson

Desert Island Discs

BBC

Music, Society & Culture, Personal Journals, Music Commentary

4.3 • 14.3K Ratings

🗓️ 27 May 1963

⏱️ 8 minutes

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Roy Plomley's castaway is soprano Birgit Nilsson. Favourite track: Liebestod (from Tristan und Isolde) by Richard Wagner Book: The Second World War by Sir Winston Churchill Luxury: Swedish crossword puzzles

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0:00.0	This download is the only extract the BBC has of this edition of Desertine and Disks.
0:06.0	The presenter was Roy Plumley.
0:08.0	In what part of Sweden were you born, Madam Newton?
0:11.0	I was born in South Sweden, not far away from Malmö.
0:14.0	You were brought up on a farm, I believe.
0:16.0	That's right.
0:17.0	Had your family been farmers for many generations?
0:19.0	Yes. By the way, there have been farmers on the same farm as I have been born.
0:25.0	I'm the seventh generation.
0:27.0	Do you have brothers who will take over the farm?
0:29.0	No, no. I have to become a farmer myself.
0:32.0	Instead to go to the island, I have to become a farmer.
0:35.0	When did you first show interest in music?
0:38.0	How young were you?
0:39.0	It was before I could walk.
0:41.0	I walked very late and I sang very early.
0:43.0	What was your very first...
0:44.0	What was your very first appearance in public?
0:48.0	Oh, I was around four years old.
0:51.0	I had to sing in a Christmas party.
0:54.0	There were a lot of people I went with my mother.
0:58.0	But I didn't sing the songs.
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