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Clive Myrie is in conversation with fellow journalists about the music they’ve heard whilst reporting from the front line. With his own extensive experience of covering wars, and his personal love of opera and jazz, Clive and Matt Frei share stories to reveal something of the power and significance of music when working in extreme conflict situations.

Matt Frei is Europe Editor and Presenter at Channel 4 News. He started work in the ´óÏó´«Ã½ World Service and became the ´óÏó´«Ã½'s Washington Correspondent, anchoring the ´óÏó´«Ã½ World News America.

Matt recalls music that’s accompanied his working life: hearing Kurt Weill as the Berlin Wall came down; distracting himself with Palestrina during a terrifying boat ride in Borneo; listening to Strauss’ Four Last Songs whilst witnessing the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina.

• Mack the Knife from Kurt Weill’s The Threepenny Opera sung by Ute Lemper with the RIAS Berlin Sinfonietta conducted by John Mauceri.
• Una furtiva lagrima from Donizetti’s L'elisir d'amore sung by Luciano Pavarotti with the English Chamber Orchestra conducted by Richard Bonynge.
• Kyrie from Palestrina’s Missa Papae Marcelli. Harry Christophers conducting The Sixteen.
• Nocturne in B major, Op. 32, No. 1 played by Artur Rubinstein
• Wagner’s Tannhäuser Overture performed by the Chicago Symphony Orchestra conducted by Sir Georg Solti.
• Im Abendrot from Vier letzte Lieder by Richard Strauss sung by Jessye Norman with the Leipzig Gewandhausorchester conducted by Kurt Masur

Producer: Rosie Boulton.
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