Hello, I'm Kirstie 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 2001, and the presenter was Sue Lolly. My castaway this week is a violinist. She'd only been playing the instrument for a year

when at the age of seven she won a place at the Yuhudi Menouin School. From there she went to the

Guildhall School of Music where she won the gold medal.

And at the age of 25 she made her debut at the BBC Proms.

She's a soloist who loves to serve her audience well.

Her performances are always spontaneous and emotional and it's this as well as

her enjoyment of playing the works of less well-known composers that's marked her rise to the

top of her profession. Now an international star she has a repertoire of

nearly 50 concertos which she plays with the world's top orchestras. Of her

performance of the William Walton Concerto his widow said that she hadn't been so moved since

Hyfeits had played it.

I've always felt a duty to my audience as much as to the composer, says my castaway.

I don't ever want to walk out on stage and play on autopilot. She is

Tasman Little. But Tasman I gather you might as easily have been a singer.

Yes, I certainly always loved the voice as a form of

communication and I guess that that probably stems from my father who is an actor

George Little and I grew up with many records being played in the

house of some of the shows that he was in and of course he would sing to my

sister and I and but I wonder if there's a link there between the voice and the

violin because the violin I suppose is the nearest instrument to the human

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