Alan Moses
Michael Berkeley's guest is Independent Press Standards Organisation chairman Alan Moses. Including music by Bach, Monteverdi, Schubert, Donizetti, Handel, Birtwistle and Brassens.
Sir Alan Moses is a distinguished lawyer who sat as a judge for almost 20 years, latterly in the Court of Appeal. He resigned last autumn to become the first Chairman of the new Press Standards Organisation, IPSO, the successor to the Press Complaints Commission. It's a challenging, and indeed highly controversial role. Alongside this he has spent 6 years as Chairman of Spitalfields Music, and is a dedicated concert goer, and a member of the Parliament Choir.
In Private Passions, Sir Alan curates a playlist of great choral works: Bach, Monteverdi, Schubert, Donizetti, and a Handel oratorio, Saul. He introduces a little-known work by Birtwistle which was written for his wife, Dinah, and he chooses a French chanson by Brassens in tribute to his mother, a French teacher.
Produced by Elizabeth Burke. A Loftus Production for Â鶹¹ÙÍøÊ×Ò³Èë¿Ú Radio 3.
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Sir Alan Moses on Beethoven
Duration: 02:29
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George Frideric Handel
Oh Lord, Whose Mercies Numberless (Saul)
Orchestra: Gabrieli Players. Singer: Andreas Scholl. Conductor: Paul McCreesh. -
Gaetano Donizetti
Quando, rapito in estasi (Lucia di Lammermoor)
Conductor: Herbert von Karajan. Singer: Maria Callas. Orchestra: Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin. -
Harrison Birtwistle
Dinah and Nick's Love Song
Conductor: Oliver Knussen. Ensemble: Birmingham Contemporary Music Group. -
Ludwig van Beethoven
String Quartet in B flat major, Op.130 (5th mvt: Cavatina)
Ensemble: Takács Quartet. -
Georges Brassens
Il n'y a pas d'amour heureux
Singer: Georges Brassens.
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- Sun 31 May 2015 12:00Â鶹¹ÙÍøÊ×Ò³Èë¿Ú Radio 3
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