This covers the years from 1950 to 1987 - the years of Tommy's broadcasts. It was was compiled by Johnny Devlin and produced by Michael Casey. ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=00gvPSdck0s
All recordings reviewed by Simon Heighes on BBC 3’s Record Review of Dixit Dominus by Handel on the 3rd January 2009 and a recording recommended for one’s CD library
Note: This was put up previously on the 30th of August 2018 with 7 views but had the wrong recording attached (it was the George Pratt version in 1989). A kind viewer kindly alerted me to the error
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sA1IoplxoEA
Stephanie Flanders is familiar to most of us from the years she spent as the BBC's Economics Editor, untangling graphs and statistics and treasury policies with great clarity and cheerful common sense. She left the BBC in 2013 and is now chief market strategist for Britain and Europe at JP Morgan Asset Management. But she's also the daughter of the late Michael Flanders, of Flanders and Swann, the writer of so many memorable comic songs - like "Mud, Mud, Glorious Mud".
Michael Flanders died when Stephanie was only six, but she remembers the pleasure of pushing him around in the wheelchair he used after catching polio as a student. And because she didn't know him for long, she has spent time researching his life, combing through boxes in the garage, and re-discovering her father through his music.
Music choices include some of her father's favourite songs, including a little-known song about gluttony which is a protest against the cruelty of foie gras. She includes too Glenn Gould's recording of a Haydn Piano Sonata which kept her going through long nights in Washington when she was writing speeches for Bill Clinton. The speeches were about impending financial crisis and, as an economist, Stephanie has weathered many financial crises, able to unpick the deepest workings of both the Treasury and the City and explain them to a mass audience. She is not afraid to shake up the status quo: an unmarried mother, she challenged David Cameron on tax breaks for married women, and her blog speaks out about "the over-mathematization of economics at the expense of common sense".
The programme ends with a preview of a new recording of Donald Swann's "Bilbo's Last Song", setting words by Tolkien.
Produced by Elizabeth Burke
A Loftus production for BBC Radio 3.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vSnFUWj_DA4
Michael Berkeley's guest is the distinguished scholar Sir Christopher Ricks, who was described by W.H. Auden as 'the kind of critic every poet dreams of finding.' He has championed the work of new poets including Seamus Heaney and Christopher Hill, and in book after book over 50 years he has thrown new light on the great poets of the past: Milton, Keats, Tennyson, T.S. Eliot. He has been the Oxford Professor of Poetry, and Professor of English at Cambridge; he is now Professor of the Humanities at Boston University. Outside the university, he's probably best known for two driving passions - for T.S. Eliot and (more controversially) for Bob Dylan. His new edition of Eliot's poems comes out this month: it's been several years in the making, and is the first complete edition of Eliot's poetry ever published.
For Private Passions, he has compiled a fascinating playlist of music, including musical settings of great poetry, and some Bob Dylan naturally. And there's an overall theme - it's a meditation on youth and age. Composers include Holst, Beethoven, Haydn, Vaughan Williams, Benjamin Britten, and Prince Albert.
Produced by Elizabeth Burke
A Loftus Production for BBC Radio 3.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3jk9mHaRNhY