Hello I'm Kirstie Young and this is a podcast from the Desert Island Discs archive.

For Wright's reasons, we've had to shorten the music.

The program was originally broadcast in 1979 and the presenter was Roy Plumlee. This week our cast wears the s soprano Ileana Kott Rubash.

Do you play records a lot at home?

Not, not, not very much, I'm ashamed of it to say, I don't listen to records and even to my own records I'm listening

not very often just when I'm receiving a record from a record company and just to check

if it's is all right or not and most of the time I'm quite

unhappy about it I'm not very pleased. How did you say about choosing your

aid for the island?

Well, it was very, very difficult for me to choose only eight records from the vast literature of music,

and I think you are quite mean to give us only.

Just a small chance to take with us some of the beauties.

And well, some of the beauties and well some of the records they remind me of some some

incidents from my life from my beginning in this profession.

What's the first one you've chosen?

The first one I think it was Glook or Fevo, the flute solo from the after the...

It's the dance of the blessed spirits.

Yes, yeah.

And it's a beautiful moment and we did a very beautiful production in Frankfurt many years ago

when I was engaged there. It was my first engagement abroad. And I love it very much.

And this moment of the solo flute, I think it will be very beautiful also to have it on a desert

island because I can imagine a beautiful beach and very lonely and the

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