Tim Hely Hutchinson
Sunday 30 September 2007 12:00-13:00 (Radio 3)
Michael Berkeley talks to one of Britain's most successful publishers. Tim Hely Hutchinson began his career with MacMillan Publishers and is now chief executive of Hachette Livre UK, the largest publisher in Britain.
Apart from books, music and horse-racing are his chief passions, and he is particularly devoted to opera. His musical choices include Maria Callas singing Bellini, Pavarotti singing Donizetti and Derek Lee Ragin singing Gluck.
Private Passions playlist 30 September 2007
M BerkeleyThe Wakeful Poet (Music from Chaucer)
Beaux-Arts Brass Quintet
BBQ BBQ 003 T10
1. Mozart March (from Idomeneo,Act III, Scene 7)
Glyndebourne Festvial Orchestra/Sir John Pritchard
Idomeneo EMI 7243 5 73848-2 CD2 T15
2. Donizetti Una Furtiva Lagrima (from L'Elisir D'Amore,Act II)
Luciano Pavarotti (tenor) English Chamber Orchestra/Richard Bonynge
Pavarotti DECCA 430 210-2 T5
3. GluckChe faro senza Euridice (from Orfeo ed Euridice,Act III)
Derek Lee Ragin (counter tenor), The English Baroque Soloists/John Eliot Gardner
Orfeo ed Euridice PHILIPS 434 093-2 CD2 T6
4. BelliniCasta Diva! (from Norma,Act I)
Maria Callas (soprano) Orchestra & chorus of Teatro alla Scala, Milan/Tullio Serafin
Callas EMI 7243 5 56273-2 CD1 T9
5. VerdiVa Pensiero (The Chorus of the Hebrew Slaves, from Nabucco, Act III, Scene 2) Ambrosian Opera Chorus, Philharmonia Orchestra/Riccardo Muti
Opera Choruses EMI CDC 749828-2 T4
6. Schubert Du Bist die Ruh, D776
Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau (baritone), Gerald Moore (piano)
EMI 7243 5 65670-2 CD1 T9
7. Mozart O Isis und Osiris (from The Magic Flute, Act II)
Wilhelm Strienz (bass), Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra/Sir Thomas Beecham (rec 1937)
Mozart PEARL GEMM CDS 9371CD2 T2 [NB quick out]
8. Mozart The last part of the finale of Act IV of The Marriage of Figaro
Rodney Gilfry (The Count), Hillevi Martinpelto (The Countess), The English Baroque Soloists/John Eliot Gardiner
The Marriage of Figaro ARCHIV 439 871-2 CD3 T17
