Apr
22
2013

2013 Project365 (Day 112)

Desert Island DiscsI am spending quite a lot of time out walking with The Little Mister these days and whilst I am walking I very often listen to a Desert Island Disc podcasts. I love them and listen to a complete variety of castaways and inevitably hear something new and different.

It started me thinking about what I would have a for my own 8 discs should I be castaway onto an desert island and this is what I came up with. I know that some of them are my favourite songs just at the moment but others would be there whether you asked me now or in 10 years time.

1. Nimrod by Elgar from the Enigma Variations
2. Gabriel’s Oboe by Ennio Morricone
3. Make You Feel My Love by Adele (original song by Bob Dylan)
4. Blackbird by The Beatles
5. The Hallelujah Chorus by Handel from The Messiah
6. Sweetest Angel by Jonatha Brooke
7. Sleepless Night by Fernando Ortega
8. Silent Night

I reckon I have a few things to sing to, a few to cry to and several to stir my soul.

Written by Anna Williams in: Project365 | Tags: ,

2 Comments »

  • The Mister's Dad

    I’m with you on your first choice, Nimrod – it brings back such poignant memories to me. I remember reading in February 1958, a couple of days after the Munich air crash which killed amongst others, eight Manchester United footballers, that on the evening of the crash the Halle Orchestra in Manchester had interrupted their scheduled performance to play ‘Nimrod’. It was, said the article, the piece which musicians played when one of their number had passed away. Every time I hear the piece played I remember that day. At the church service for my father’s funeral in 1979 I was holding out pretty well until we came to leave the church at the end and the organist started to play ‘Nimrod’. That broke me up completely. I’ve got a tear in my eye thinking about it now.

    Comment | April 23, 2013
  • What a lovely recollection.

    Comment | April 23, 2013

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