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Michael Berkeley talks to broadcaster and political commentator Jonathan Dimbleby, chair of Radio 4's Any Questions?, biographer of Prince Charles and presenter of a ´óÏó´«Ã½ TV series about contemporary Russia. He studied the piano until his mid-teens and has chosen a Mozart piano sonata as well as music by Verdi, Bach, Beethoven, Britten and traditional ambassel music from Ethiopia.

Including:

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

2 Britten: ‘The Birth of Nicholas’ from ‘St Nicholas’ op 42 EMI CDM5651122 – Track 14
Robert Tear (tenor), Bruce Russell (treble),
Andrew Davis & Ian Hare (piano duet), Cambridge Girls’ Choir,
Academy of St Martin-in-the-Fields (Leader Neville Marriner),
Choir of King’s College, Cambridge (Sir David Willcocks)
2’34

3 Beethoven: 3rd mvt ‘Scherzo’ from Symphony No.7 in A major Op 92 Beethoven Piano Concerto no 1 etc SONY CLASSICAL CD45830 – Track 6
Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra/Daniel Barenboim
(Live Recording at the Philharmonie Berlin West, 1989)
7’35

4 Verdi: ‘Ave Maria’ from Otello ‘Susan Chilcott in Brussels’ CYPRES RECORDS CYP8061 – Track 2
Susan Chilcott (soprano), Symphony Orchestra of La monnaie/
Antonio Pappano conductor
4’20

5 Chanson Amhorique classique accomp on masenqo Ambassel music from Ethiopia (rec by Jean L Jenkins in 1964/66)
VOGUE CLVLX164 – Track 8
3’29

6 Mozart: 1st mvt from Piano Sonata in A major K331 RCA RD60407 – Track 4
Alicia de Larrocha (piano)
13’35

7 JS Bach: Music from Part II of The St John Passion BWV 245 NAXOS 8557297 – CD2 Track 7
Choir of New College Oxford, Collegium Novum/Edward Higginbottom
James Gilchrist (tenor), John Bernays, Eamonn Dougan (bass)
2’44

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