Hello, I'm Christy Young, and this is a download from the Desert Island

Discs Archive. This edition may be slightly different from what was

actually broadcast, but it's the only version we have. It comes from the

British Library's radio collection. It was

archived without the music, so although the Castaways choices are introduced,

they're not part of this recording. Full details can be found on the Castaways page on the Desert Island Discs website.

The program was originally broadcast in 1980, and the presenter was Roy Plumley.

This week, our cast way is the violinist Salvatore Acardo.

Mr. Acardo, have you ever imagined what it must be like to be alone on a desert island? Since I was invited here, so I started to think about it.

Do you think you could endure loneliness?

Well, I think so if I could have something which help me.

Well, all you have is eight discs to comfort you.

Did you find it very hard to choose just eight?

At the beginning, yes, then not at all.

Because what I choose was all records that, they were really my first records that I bought when I was very young.

How young? I was 12 I was very young. How young?

I was 12, 13, something like this.

There were the records. I used to play a lot, you know, when I had only five, six, seven records, and so I was playing always the records all day along.

Because now it's very difficult to play records and to listen to records I only listen once or twice to a record because I have no time to do I have to practice and to travel and to play.

And so it was very easy to make the choice of the records. These are records that have stood the test of time then. What's the first one?

The first one I would make a choice for the Verde Requiem. Yes. Conducted by Toscany.

Magnificent recording which part of it? I think the beginning of the D.Sirae.

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