Elly Ameling
Desert Island Discs
BBC
4.3 • 14.3K Ratings
🗓️ 9 February 1985
⏱️ 35 minutes
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Summary
Elly Ameling's career as a singer took off when she won the first prizes in two competitions. In conversation with Roy Plomley, she explains why she devotes most of her time to singing lieder and has only appeared in one opera. She also talks about her occasional forays into cabaret and she chooses the eight records she would take to the mythical island.
[Taken from the original programme material for this archive edition of Desert Island Discs]
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, I'm Kirstie Young, and this is a podcast from the Desert Island Discs archive. |
| 0:05.0 | For Wright's reasons, we've had to shorten the music. |
| 0:08.0 | The program was originally broadcast in 1985, and the presenter was Roy Plumlee. This week our cast away is a singer. It's Ellie Ameline. |
| 0:35.0 | Ellie I believe is short for Elizabeth, is that right? |
| 0:38.0 | Yes, my name is Elizabeth. |
| 0:39.0 | Well now we're taking you away from cities and concert halls in the airports to a desert island. |
| 0:45.0 | Have you ever visited one on your world travels? |
| 0:48.0 | Yes. I was not long ago on the Galapagos Islands. |
| 0:52.0 | And I can tell you I would never take records to those islands |
| 0:56.0 | because there is a different type of music there namely the sound of the wind and the water |
| 1:01.9 | and of the birds and of the sea lions and I think we forget |
| 1:08.6 | about our art music and listen to our master nature. |
| 1:15.0 | It sounds as if you're quite welcome a stay on a desert island. |
| 1:18.0 | Yes, I think I would love to be away from noise especially. And as I say for a time from sound even yeah now you've |
| 1:27.4 | made many records yourself do you play records I mean at home when you are |
| 1:31.8 | relaxing do you put records on the |
| 1:33.6 | turntable? Well you talk about my own records. When I receive them in the home I |
| 1:39.2 | have to take a good strong drink and then we will listen to them because it's always I |
| 1:46.4 | wouldn't say a complete let down but part of it yeah because you have in your |
| 1:51.9 | head your ideal interpretation of this particular piece |
| 1:56.0 | and it is never the same on the record as what you had in your head and so it cost me a lot of trouble to listen to them but I have |
| 2:04.8 | to of course just to check and then I put them away for 10 years after which I may take |
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