Robert Fisk
Sunday 15 June 2008 12:00-13:00 (Radio 3)
Michael Berkeley meets journalist Robert Fisk, who has reported from many conflict zones over the past 30 years, particularly in the Middle East. His reporting is always impassioned and often very disturbing, and he is not afraid to criticise both Western and Middle Eastern governments. War permeates his musical choices, which include Britten's War Requiem, Shostakovich's Leningrad Symphony, a piece by a British composer killed in the First World War and the theme music from the film Schindler's List, as well as concertos by Handel and Brahms.
Private Passions playlist 15 June 2008
M BerkeleyThe Wakeful Poet (Music from Chaucer) (pub OUP) Beaux-Arts Brass Quintet
BBQ BBQ 003 T10
Britten Dies Irae (from the War Requiem)
The Bach Choir, London Symphony Chorus & Orchestra/Benjamin Britten
Britten DECCA 475 6049 CD9 T3
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Cecil Coles Lament (from From the Scottish Highlands)
BBC SSO/Martyn Brabbins
Music from behind the lines HYPERION CDA67293 T510
READING
Robert Fisk The Age of the Warrior (Fourth Estate) p240
Brahms Concerto for violin and cello in A minor, Op 102 (1st movement)
David Oistrakh (violin), Mstislav Rostropovich (cello), Cleveland Orchestra/George Szell
Beethoven EMI 566219-2 T4
Handel Organ Concerto in F, Op 4 No 5 (2nd movement)
The Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra/Ton Koopman (organ)
Haendel ERATO 2292-45394-2 CD3 T2
John Williams Theme from Schindler's List
Itzhak Perlman (violin), Boston SO/John Williams
Schindler's List MCA MCD 10696 T1
Shostakovich Symphony No 7 in C, Op 60 (the Leningrad)
LPO/Bernard Haitink
Shostakovich DECCA 425 068-2 T1
