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Your Desert Island Discs results

In May 2011, we asked which eight discs you would you take with you if you were going to be cast away alone on the mythical desert island. Here are some of your choices.

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Your Top 100 Tracks

1. Ralph Vaughan Williams - The Lark Ascending

2. Sir Edward Elgar - Enigma Variations

3. Ludwig van Beethoven - Symphony No 9 in D minor 'Choral'

4. Queen - Bohemian Rhapsody

5. Pink Floyd - Comfortably Numb

6. Sir Edward Elgar - Cello Concerto in E minor

7. George Frideric Handel - Messiah

8. Gustav Holst - The Planets

9. Ralph Vaughan Williams - Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis

10. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart - Requiem in D minor

11. Led Zeppelin - Stairway To Heaven

12. Johann Pachelbel - Canon in D major

13. Pink Floyd - Wish You Were Here

14. The Beatles - Hey Jude

15. Gustav Mahler - Symphony No 5 in C sharp minor

16. Sir Hubert Parry - Jerusalem

17. The Kinks - Waterloo Sunset

18. Sergei Rachmaninoff - Piano Concerto No 2 in C minor

19. The Rolling Stones - Gimme Shelter

20. Simon & Garfunkel - Bridge Over Troubled Water

21. Gabriel Faur茅 - Requiem

22. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart - Clarinet Concerto in A major

23. The Beach Boys - God Only Knows

24. Samuel Barber - Adagio for Strings

25. Bob Dylan - Like A Rolling Stone

26. Ludwig van Beethoven - Symphony No 6 in F major 'Pastoral'

27. The Beatles - In My Life

28. Gregorio Allegri - Miserere

29. The Beatles - A Day In The Life

30. Ludwig van Beethoven - Piano Concerto No 5 in E flat major 'Emperor'

31. Pink Floyd - Shine On You Crazy Diamond

32. Antonio Vivaldi - The Four Seasons

33. Giacomo Puccini - Turandot: Nessun Dorma

34. Georges Bizet - Au fond du temple saint (from The Pearl Fishers)

35. George Gershwin - Rhapsody In Blue

36. Johann Sebastian Bach - St Matthew Passion BWV 244

37. Eric Clapton - Layla

38. John Lennon - Imagine

39. Jimi Hendrix - All Along The Watchtower

40. Ludwig van Beethoven - Symphony No 7 in A major

41. Thomas Tallis - Spem In Alium

42. Richard Strauss - Four Last Songs

43. Claude Debussy - Suite Bergamasque (commonly known as Clair De Lune)

44. The Beatles - Here Comes The Sun

45. Joaqu铆n Rodrigo - Concierto de Aranjuez

46. David Bowie - Life On Mars?

47. Electric Light Orchestra - Mr Blue Sky

48. The Eagles - Hotel California

49. Elbow - One Day Like This

50. The Who - Won't Get Fooled Again

51. Louis Armstrong - What A Wonderful World

52. Ludwig van Beethoven - Piano Sonata No 14 in C sharp minor 'Moonlight Sonata'

53. Johnny Cash - Hurt

54. Johann Sebastian Bach - Goldberg Variations

55. Miles Davis - So What?

56. The Rolling Stones - Sympathy For The Devil

57. Max Bruch - Violin Concerto No 1 in G minor

58. Bruce Springsteen - Thunder Road

59. Johann Sebastian Bach - Mass in B minor BWV 232

60. Bruce Springsteen - Born To Run

61. Gerry Rafferty - Baker Street

62. Procol Harum - A Whiter Shade Of Pale

63. Joy Division - Love Will Tear Us Apart

64. Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky - 1812 Overture

65. The Smiths - There Is A Light That Never Goes Out

66. David Bowie - Heroes

67. Abba - Dancing Queen

68. Don McLean - American Pie

69. Johann Sebastian Bach - Concerto for Two Violins in D minor BWV 1043

70. Franz Schubert - String Quintet in C major

71. Bob Dylan - Tangled Up In Blue

72. Carl Orff - Carmina Burana

73. The Beatles - Yesterday

74. Marvin Gaye - I Heard It Through The Grapevine

75. Dave Brubeck - Take Five

76. The Beatles - Strawberry Fields Forever

77. Jeff Buckley - Hallelujah

78. Van Morrison - Brown Eyed Girl

79. The Beatles - Eleanor Rigby

80. Gustav Mahler - Symphony No 2 in C minor 'Resurrection'

81. Otis Redding - Sitting On The Dock Of The Bay

82. Leonard Cohen - Suzanne

83. The Beatles - Let It Be

84. The Beach Boys - Good Vibrations

85. Antonin Dvorak - Symphony No 9 in E minor 'From the New World'

86. Pulp - Common People

87. Bob Dylan - Mr Tambourine Man

88. Jimi Hendrix - Voodoo Chile

89. Led Zeppelin - Kashmir

90. Meat Loaf - Bat Out Of Hell

91. The Undertones - Teenage Kicks

92. Giuseppe Verdi - Requiem

93. Joni Mitchell - A Case Of You

94. Dire Straits - Sultans Of Swing

95. The Rolling Stones - Brown Sugar

96. Lynyrd Skynyrd - Freebird

97. Giuseppe Verdi - Nabucco: Va pensiero sull'ali dorate (Chorus of the Hebrew Slaves)

98. Henry Purcell - When I am laid in earth (Dido's Lament) (from Dido and Aeneas)

99. Kate Bush - Wuthering Heights

100. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart - Piano Concerto No 21 in C major

Your Top 100 Artists

1. The Beatles

2. Bob Dylan

3. Ludwig van Beethoven

4. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

5. Pink Floyd

6. Johann Sebastian Bach

7. The Rolling Stones

8. Sir Edward Elgar

9. Ralph Vaughan Williams

10. Queen

11. Led Zeppelin

12. David Bowie

13. Giacomo Puccini

14. George Frideric Handel

15. Van Morrison

16. Bruce Springsteen

17. Leonard Cohen

18. Gustav Mahler

19. Elvis Presley

20. Simon & Garfunkel

21. Radiohead

22. The Smiths

23. Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

24. Frank Sinatra

25. The Beach Boys

26. Joni Mitchell

27. Jimi Hendrix

28. Sergei Rachmaninoff

29. Franz Schubert

30. Neil Young

31. Fleetwood Mac

32. The Kinks

33. Dire Straits

34. The Who

35. Abba

36. Miles Davis

37. Bob Marley

38. Kate Bush

39. Giuseppe Verdi

40. U2

41. Oasis

42. Richard Wagner

43. Elton John

44. The Clash

45. Johnny Cash

46. Nina Simone

47. Eric Clapton

48. Sir Hubert Parry

49. John Lennon

50. Stevie Wonder

51. Gustav Holst

52. Johannes Brahms

53. Antonio Vivaldi

54. R.E.M.

55. Ella Fitzgerald

56. Jean Sibelius

57. Richard Strauss

58. Gabriel Faur茅

59. The Eagles

60. Genesis

61. Georges Bizet

62. Marvin Gaye

63. Johann Pachelbel

64. Susan Boyle

65. Elbow

66. Louis Armstrong

67. Fr茅d茅ric Chopin

68. Joy Division

69. Tom Waits

70. Claude Debussy

71. Rod Stewart

72. Coldplay

73. The Stone Roses

74. The Jam

75. George Gershwin

76. Muse

77. Paul Simon

78. The Doors

79. Dmitri Shostakovich

80. Samuel Barber

81. Michael Jackson

82. Adele

83. Electric Light Orchestra

84. Otis Redding

85. The Cure

86. Gregorio Allegri

87. John Martyn

88. The Killers

89. James Taylor

90. Dusty Springfield

91. Nat King Cole

92. Frank Zappa

93. Jeff Buckley

94. Fairport Convention

95. Nirvana

96. Antonin Dvorak

97. Elvis Costello

98. Felix Mendelssohn

99. Nick Drake

100. Thomas Tallis

Top Tracks By Women Artists

1. Joni Mitchell - Case of You

2. Kate Bush - Wuthering Heights

3. Adele - Someone Like You

4. Ella Fitzgerald - Every Time We Say Goodbye

5. Edith Piaf - Non, Je Ne Regrette Rien

6. Aretha Franklin - Say A Little Prayer

7. Nina Simone - Feeling Good

8. Joan Armatrading - Love and Affection / Eva Cassidy - Fields of Gold

Top Beatles Tracks

1. Hey Jude

2. In My Life

3. A Day In The Life

4. Here Comes The Sun

5. Yesterday

6. Strawberry Fields

7. Eleanor Rigby

8. Let It Be