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Terry Burns

Michael Berkeley's guest is the economist Terry Burns, whose musical choices include excerpts from Purcell's The Fairy Queen and Monteverdi's Vespers, plus a Bach cantata.

Michael Berkeley's guest is the economist Terry Burns, a former Permanent Secretary to the Treasury, who is now chairman of Abbey National. A keen music-lover who learnt the clarinet as a schoolboy, he is now chairman of the board of governors of the Royal Academy of Music. His choices include excerpts from Purcell's The Fairy Queen and Monteverdi's Vespers, as well as a Bach cantata conducted by John Eliot Gardiner, Beethoven's Symphony No 5 conducted by Toscanini and Mozart's Marriage of Figaro from Carlos Kleiber.

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Sun 25 May 2008 12:00

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  • Sun 25 May 2008 12:00

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