Hello, I'm Krestey 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 2002, and the presenter was Sue Lolly. My castaway this week is a musician. He specializes in keyboard instruments, organ and piano,

but in fact he appears to be able to play and do almost anything musical.

He conducts, composes and improves, his repertoire ranges from Bach to Gershwin.

He was born in Oldham to where his parents had emigrated from Barbados.

At the age of nine he was asked to play a chord on the organ in his local church to give the school choir their note.

It was a simple life-changing moment from which he was propelled forward to Cheetham School in Manchester, the Royal College of Music, organ scholar at St George's

Chapel Windsor and the Vienna Horshula.

Out of all of that emerged a virtuoso who never ceases to bewilder and delight in his versatility.

Currently organist in residence at Manchester's Bridgewater Hall,

he spends the rest of his time working with the world's great orchestras or giving recitals.

Music is a language he says. Music making is a

mother tongue for me. He is Wayne Marshall and it's a language which you learned

entirely instinctively way nobody talked you you just found you could communicate in it

It seemed to happen that way I mean it was you know I was very young I was three my mother was having piano lessons I was fascinated by what she was doing

and would always interrupt her practice sessions and would always somehow tell her

that she was playing wrong notes because I remembered.

You could just hear it?

Yeah, I could hear it.

You had perfect pitch although nobody would have known.

Yeah, that was it.

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