Alan Rusbridger | Journalist

Published: Jan. 6, 2021, 6 a.m.

b'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'