Christina Lamb
Clive Myrie is in conversation with fellow journalists about music heard in their working lives. Sunday Times Chief Foreign Correspondent Christina Lamb shares music and stories
Clive Myrie is in conversation with fellow journalists about the music they’ve heard whilst reporting from the front line. With his own extensive experience of covering wars, and his personal love of opera and jazz, Clive and Christina Lamb share stories to reveal something of the power and significance of music when working in extreme conflict situations.
Christina Lamb is Chief Foreign Correspondent for the Sunday Times. She’s covered wars from Iraq to Libya, Angola to Syria and repression from Eritrea to Zimbabwe. Her writing particularly highlights the effects of war on women and children - the girls abducted by Boko Haram in Nigeria, Yazidi sex slaves in Iraq, and the plight of Afghan women. She’s perhaps best known for her bestselling books I Am Malala, The Girl from Aleppo and Our Bodies, Their Battlefield.
Here she recalls the music that’s accompanied her working life: hearing Louis Armstrong when she’d fled from Russian tanks in Afghanistan; opera in the middle of the Amazon and ballet music in Ukraine.
Tchaikovsky’s Concerto no. 1 in B flat minor Op.23 for piano and orchestra - 1st movement; performed by Evgeny Kissin with the Berlin Philharmonic conducted by Herbert von Karajan
Elgar’s Concerto in E minor Op.85 for cello and orchestra – 3rd movement, played by Jacqueline du Pré with the LSO conducted by Sir John Barbirolli
Muddhu gare yashoda (raga) played by Daud Sadozai & Bakary Sangaré
What a Wonderful World sung by Louis Armstrong composed by Weiss/Douglas
Vesti la Giubba from Il Pagliacci by Leoncavallo sung by Enrico Caruso
Everyday Wonders: The Girl from Aleppo by Cecilia McDowall. The National Children’s Choir of Great Britain conducted by Dan Ludford-Thomas
Moderato and Allegretto from La Bayadère ballet by Ludwig Minkus. The Sofia National Opera Orchestra, conducted by Boris Spassov
Producer: Rosie Boulton
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Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Piano Concerto no.1 in B flat minor, Op.23 (1st mvt)
Performer: Evgeny Kissin. Orchestra: Berliner Philharmoniker. Conductor: Herbert von Karajan. -
Edward Elgar
Cello Concerto in E minor, Op.85 (3rd mvt)
Performer: Jacqueline du Pré. Orchestra: London Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: John Barbirolli. -
Daud Sadozai
Muddhu gare yashoda (raga)
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Louis Armstrong
What a Wonderful World
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Ruggero Leoncavallo
Vesti la Giubba (Il Pagliacci)
Singer: Enrico Caruso. Orchestra: Victor Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Walter B. Rogers. -
Cecilia McDowall
Everyday Wonders: The Girl from Aleppo
Choir: National Children's Choir of Great Britain. Conductor: Dan Ludford-Thomas. -
John Rutter
Requiem aeternam (Requiem)
Choir: The Cambridge Singers. Conductor: John Rutter. -
Ludwig Minkus
La Bayadere
Performer: Sofia National Opera Orchestra. Conductor: Boris Spassov.
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