Alan Rusbridger | Journalist
In this episode, BBC Music Magazine\u2019s editor Oliver Condy talks to the former Guardian editor and now principal of Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford, Alan Rusbridger.\nWhile 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\u2019s Ballade No. 1, a feat he describes in his book Play It Again: An Amateur Against the Impossible.\nRecordings featured:\nChopin: Ballade No. 1\nMurray Perahia (piano)\nSony Classical\xa0\nBritten: Young Person\u2019s Guide to the Orchestra\nNew York Philharmonic/Leonard Bernstein\nSony Classical\xa0\nBach arr. Busoni: Nun komm, der Heiden Heiland\nAlfred Brendel (piano)\nDecca \nBeethoven: String Quartet in C-sharp minor, Op. 131\nTakacs Quartet\nDecca\xa0\nSchubert: Variations on an Original Theme\nAndreas Staier & Alexander Melnikov (piano)\nHarmonia Mundi\n Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.\nLearn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices