Gyorgy Ligeti

Desert Island Discs

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Society & Culture, Music Commentary, Music, Personal Journals

4.4 • 13.7K Ratings

🗓️ 18 December 1982

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Summary

Roy Plomley's castaway is composer Gyorgy Ligeti.

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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 1982, and the presenter was Roy Plumley. Our cast away this week is the composer George Ligoty. Now this meager allowance you will have
0:37.0	Mr Ligoty of just eight discs, would you prefer to take scores rather than records?
0:42.4	Oh, it's a difficult request. Would you prefer to take scores rather than records?
0:43.0	Oh, it's a difficult question.
0:46.0	No, maybe records.
0:47.0	Records.
0:48.0	Do you play records a great deal for play at home?
0:50.0	Yes, yes, yes, I like music.
0:52.0	I thought you might. In choosing your records, did you have any plan?
0:57.0	No, no. It's quality, what's quality is very subjective and I like every music you know so called very
1:06.2	serious music but also popular music I am a jazz fan but here I choose only
1:11.0	classical music.
1:12.6	Did it take you long to choose?
1:14.8	Yes, I took this job very seriously.
1:17.2	So, you see, it's very difficult to have eight records.
1:21.2	If it would be 20, it would be 20 it would be better.
1:24.0	Oh yes.
1:25.0	50.
1:26.0	Yes.
1:27.0	Yes.
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