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Charles Hazlewood is a conductor and the founder of Paraorchestra, the world's first professional ensemble of disabled musicians.

Once described as the Heston Blumenthal of orchestral music, Charles has spent his career challenging Britain\\u2019s musical palate, exploding boundaries and expanding our ideas about what an orchestra can be - and do.

His repertoire encompasses Beethoven, Bruckner and Barry White, and his critically-acclaimed projects include more than 100 world premieres and the first orchestral headline performance at Glastonbury. Paraorchestra, the ensemble he established in 2011, reached a global audience at the closing ceremony of the 2012 London Paralympics. He also co-founded an opera company in South Africa, and its production of Carmen, with a mainly black cast, won international acclaim.

He studied music at Keble College, Oxford and was the Organ Scholar there. He won the EBU conductor's competition in 1995 and has had an international career as a conductor.

DISC ONE: Somebody\\u2019s Gonna Off The Man by Barry White & The Love Unlimited Orchestra\\nDISC TWO: A Rainbow in Curved Air by Terry Riley\\nDISC THREE: Ach, ich f\\xfchls, composed by Mozart, conducted by Otto Klemperer and performed by Gundula Janowitz and Philharmonia Orchestra \\nDISC FOUR: R. Strauss: 4 Lieder, Op. 27 - 4. Morgen! by Richard Strauss, conducted by Kurt Masur, performed by Jessye Norman and Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra\\nDISC FIVE: Improvisation by Olivier Latry \\nDISC SIX: Kraftwerk-Rewerk, composed by Charlotte Harding and Lloyd Coleman, conducted by Charles Hazlewood \\nDISC SEVEN: Ndisakuthanda Mna, composed by Georges Bizet, performed by Pauline Malefane, Andile Tshoni and Dimpho Di Kopane, conducted by Charles Hazlewood\\nDISC EIGHT: The Last Time/Ultima Vez by Pauline Oliveros

BOOK CHOICE: A book of poetry by Ivor Cutler\\nLUXURY ITEM: An espresso machine\\nCASTAWAY'S FAVOURITE: Ach, ich f\\xfchls, composed by Mozart, conducted by Otto Klemperer and performed by Gundula Janowitz and Philharmonia Orchestra

Presenter: Lauren Laverne \\nProducer: Sarah Taylor