Anthony Burgess: (1/10) Purcell: Desert Island Discs

Henry Purcell, Rejoice in the Lord alway. The first of Anthony Burgess’s choices on the BBC’s Desert Island Discs radio programme broadcast on Monday, 28th November, 1966. Sung by the choir of King’s College, Cambridge. Many thanks to “morphthing1“. Burgess’s choices on the BBC radio programme broadcast on Monday, 28th November, 1966. Purcell, Rejoice in the Lord Alway (1/10); Bach, Goldberg Variations No. 13 (2/10); Elgar, Symphony No. 1 in A flat major (3/10 - “castaway’s favorite“); Wagner, Walter’s Trial Song from Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg (4/10); Debussy, Fêtes (5/10); Lambert, The Rio Grande (6/10); Walton, Symphony No. 1 in B flat (7/10); Vaughan Williams, On Wenlock Edge (8/10); Book: James Joyce, Finnegans Wake (9/10); Luxury item: music manuscript paper, pencils, a rubber (10/10)