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Private Passions - Ffion Hague

Michael Berkeley meets Ffion Hague, wife of Conservative MP William Hague. Her choices include Bryn Terfel singing a Welsh lullaby and Bruckner's motet Christus factus est.

Michael Berkeley meets Ffion Hague, wife of shadow foreign secretary William Hague, and who has published a highly-rated book on the women in former Prime Minister Lloyd George's life. A native Welsh-speaker, Ffion loves music, having played clarinet and cello as a teenager, and is an enthusiastic singer. Her musical choices include Bryn Terfel singing a Welsh lullaby, Bruckner's motet Christus factus est, Faure's Cantique de Jean Racine and concerto movements by Mozart and Bach.

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Sig M Berkeley: The Wakeful Poet (from Music from Chaucer)
(Berkeley/OUP) 0鈥�26
Beaux Arts Brass Quintet

Mozart : 2nd mvt from Clarinet Concerto K622 8鈥�49
鈥楪reat Recordings of the Century鈥� EMI Classics 0724356760127 - Track 6
Jack Brymer, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra/ Sir Thomas Beecham 1958

Jerry Gray: A String of Pearls 3鈥�17
Glenn Miller: A Memorial RCA Victor GMI Side 3 Band 4
Glenn Miller and his Orchestra
Gray/Warner Chappell Music Ltd

Trad: Suo-G芒n 5鈥�02
We鈥檒l Keep a Welcome DG 4635932 鈥� Track 7
Bryn Terfel, The Orchestra of Welsh National Opera/Gareth Jones

Bruckner: Christus factus est (Motet) 5鈥�14
鈥淏ruckner Motets鈥� Hyperion CDA66062 鈥� Track 11
Corydon Singers/Matthew Best

JS Bach: 1st mvt from Concerto for Two Violins 4鈥�03
鈥榁iolin Concertos鈥� NAXOS 8110965 鈥� Track 7
Yehudi Menuhin/George Enescu, Paris Symphony Orchestra/Pierre Monteux

Faur茅: Cantique de Jean Racine op 11 4鈥�40
鈥楻equiem etc鈥� ERATO 0630178972 鈥� Track 12
Chorale Philippe Caillard/
Orchestra National de L鈥橭p茅ra de Monte-Carlo/Louis Fr茅maux

Arlen/Harburg: Over the Rainbow 4鈥�59
BLIX STREET HIT16 - Track 1
Eva Cassidy
Arlen/Harburg/EMI Music

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