Alan Rusbridger | Journalist All The Right Notes

In this episode, BBC Music Magazine’s editor Oliver Condy talks to the former Guardian editor and now principal of Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford, Alan Rusbridger.
While the editor of a national paper during the Arab Spring, Wikileaks controversies, the newspaper hacking scandal, riots in the UK and more, Alan Rusbridger found time to learn and perform Chopin’s Ballade No. 1, a feat he describes in his book Play It Again: An Amateur Against the Impossible.
Recordings featured:
Chopin: Ballade No. 1
Murray Perahia (piano)
Sony Classical 
Britten: Young Person’s Guide to the Orchestra
New York Philharmonic/Leonard Bernstein
Sony Classical 
Bach arr. Busoni: Nun komm, der Heiden Heiland
Alfred Brendel (piano)
Decca
Beethoven: String Quartet in C-sharp minor, Op. 131
Takacs Quartet
Decca 
Schubert: Variations on an Original Theme
Andreas Staier & Alexander Melnikov (piano)
Harmonia Mundi
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