A chance to hear Michael Berkeley talk to the veteran journalist, Katharine Whitehorn, who died in January 2021 at the age 92. In this programme from 2016, Katherine Whitehorn talks about the music she loved all her life.
She’s often quoted as saying: ‘Find out what you like doing best and get someone to pay you for it.’ Katharine explains that she had quite a few false starts along the way - running away from school, failing as an architecture student, dabbling in modelling - until she found her true vocation of journalism and began a career that has spanned Picture Post, the Observer and Saga Magazine.
She was also known to millions as the author of Cooking in a Bedsitter, first published in 1961 and still the bible of student cookery.
Her music choices include Finlandia, invoking memories of another - happy - false start; a piece of Chopin played by her father; Mozart and Beethoven symphonies; and one of the few songs she and her much-loved husband Gavin Lyall both enjoyed.
Producer: Jane Greenwood
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hrDUyujtBWM
Symphony No. 94 (The Surprise) by Joseph Haydn reviewed by Jonathan Swain on BBC Radio 3’s Record Review on the 6th June 2009 and a recording recommended for your CD Library.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pV71T7qOpq4
1. Waltz fromTom Jones by Edward German Adrian Leaper Naxos 2017 3:32
2. Gershwin Anima Eterna Brugge & Jos van Immerseel Alpha (2017) 4:02
3. Handel: Enchantresses Sandrine Piau (soprano) Alpha ALPHA765 5:50
4. Strauss, R: Salome Emily Magee Pentatone PTC5186602 (2017) 8:53
5. Roger Parker general review of various operas 6th January 2022 39:45
(with the musical excerpts from Jean-Philippe Rameau’s opera Platee removed but the comments retained)
The following tracks were blocked by You Tube:
1. Made for Opera Nadine Sierra (Riccardo Frizza) DG 4860942 4:47
2. Dualità Music by Handel Emöke Baráth(soprano)Erato 9029637062 4:41
3. Mozart x 3 Elsa Dreisig Erato (2017) 7:54
4. Roger Parker general review of various operas 6th January 2022 39:45
(with the musical excerpts from Jean-Philippe Rameau’s opera Platee removed but the comments retained)
See: The full video on Rumble as below:
https://rumble.com/vy81un-opera-cd-and-record-review-bbc3-19th-march-2022-vol-64.html
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NvHc0535xJY