Podcasts Culture Desert Island Discs: Archive 1996-2000 Sir Roger Norrington

Sir Roger Norrington

Published: Aug. 15, 1999, 10:15 a.m.

Sue Lawley's guest this week is the conductor Sir Roger Norrington. Known for conducting music at a cracking pace, he argues that it's the way the great composers would have played it. Music should be fun, he says, it should entertain - and never, ever, be pompous. He chooses eight records to take to the mythical island.

[Taken from the original programme material for this archive edition of Desert Island Discs]

Favourite track: Brandenburg Concerto No.6 by Johann Sebastian Bach\nBook: Complete Works by Thomas Hardy\nLuxury: Chocolate