Anti-Desert Island Discs | Charlotte Higgins

What pieces of music would you happily never hear again?Alan Bennett's diary for 2009, published as the annual January treat in the London Review of Books, contains an amusing entry for 20 February. "It's years," writes Bennett, "since I was on Desert Island Discs but these days I'd find it much easier to choose the eight records I don't want than those that I do. I don't ever want to hear again: Mussorgsky Pictures at an ExhibitionRimsky-Korsakov ScheherazadeSchubert Fifth SymphonyBeethoven Pas...

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