Private Passions - Private Passions - Ffion Hague

Michael Berkeley meets Ffion Hague, wife of shadow foreign secretary William Hague, and who has published a highly-rated book on the women in former Prime Minister Lloyd George's life. A native Welsh-speaker, Ffion loves music, having played clarinet and cello as a teenager, and is an enthusiastic singer. Her musical choices include Bryn Terfel singing a Welsh lullaby, Bruckner's motet Christus factus est, Faure's Cantique de Jean Racine and concerto movements by Mozart and Bach. PLAYLIST Sig M Berkeley: The Wakeful Poet (from Music from Chaucer) (Berkeley/OUP) 0’26 Beaux Arts Brass Quintet Mozart : 2nd mvt from Clarinet Concerto K622 8’49 ‘Great Recordings of the Century’ EMI Classics 0724356760127 - Track 6 Jack Brymer, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra/ Sir Thomas Beecham 1958 Jerry Gray: A String of Pearls 3’17 Glenn Miller: A Memorial RCA Victor GMI Side 3 Band 4 Glenn Miller and his Orchestra Gray/Warner Chappell Music Ltd Trad: Suo-Gân 5’02 We’ll Keep a Welcome DG 4635932 – Track 7 Bryn Terfel, The Orchestra of Welsh National Opera/Gareth Jones Bruckner: Christus factus est (Motet) 5’14 “Bruckner Motets” Hyperion CDA66062 – Track 11 Corydon Singers/Matthew Best JS Bach: 1st mvt from Concerto for Two Violins 4’03 ‘Violin Concertos’ NAXOS 8110965 – Track 7 Yehudi Menuhin/George Enescu, Paris Symphony Orchestra/Pierre Monteux Fauré: Cantique de Jean Racine op 11 4’40 ‘Requiem etc’ ERATO 0630178972 – Track 12 Chorale Philippe Caillard/ Orchestra National de L’Opéra de Monte-Carlo/Louis Frémaux Arlen/Harburg: Over the Rainbow 4’59 BLIX STREET HIT16 - Track 1 Eva Cassidy Arlen/Harburg/EMI Music