Emily Watson

Yes, I was.

I think, you know, I became more able to articulate what was going on and who I was and mature a bit with it all.

Emily, I think we should go to the music.

What's your fifth track?

My fifth track is the opening movement of Algar's Cello Concerto, performed by Jacqueline Dupre.

And...

I first heard this when I was a student and in the aftermath of the storm in 1987 the great storm that the BBC failed to predict when there was sort of a real sense of heightened drama and you know things being ripped apart the news came through that she had died and

And they played this piece of music on the news and it hit me like a steam train.

And then obviously later in my life, I then played her in a movie and I got to know this piece very intimately.

But hearing that piece of music was the first time that I really started to have an inkling of what it was to be as an artist, to be

what I would call absolutely all in.

She became that music.

She gave everything.

She was 21 when she made the recording.

And it's a piece of music by a man written towards the end of his life that's full of incredibly intense sense of nostalgia, maybe regret.

You know, it certainly feels a very mature piece.

emotional piece, and here she was with every fibre of her vibrating in this piece of music, and that was mind-blowing to me.

I don't know if they bled, but they were blistered, certainly.

I mean, it was a very steep learning curve.

You know, it's a trick that you soap the bow so it doesn't make any sound.