Hello, I'm Kristi Young, and this is a podcast from the Desert Island Discs Archive.

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

The program was originally broadcast in 1977, and the presenter was Roy Plumley.

On this occasion, I'm visiting Jacqueline DuPray, and instead of being in a broadcasting

house studio, I'm in a muse house not far from Hyde Park.

Jacqueline, it's just eight records, and this is a great problem for anyone who lives with

music to the extent that you do.

Well, in a sense, I feel it's a very lucky thing because on the eight records, I can perhaps

bring my friends with me to the island.

That's the way you're going to set it back.

It's a very good way, too.

Or where do we start? What's the first one?

Well, the very first one actually is the first piece of music I ever heard in a public concert.

And in that concert, my teacher was playing William Plees, and it was a shoe, but C major,

two cello quintets.

The second team from the first movement so affected me that I'm afraid I nearly drowned

out the music with my tears.

That's, I loved it.

Part of the first movement of the shoebird, two cello quintet and C major, William Plees

with the Amadeus quartet.

Jacqueline, your name DuPray is channel islands, isn't it?

That's correct. It's from the island of Jersey.

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