Private Passions - Jonathan Dimbleby

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 BBC 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