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Private Passions

on BBC Radio 3

Michael Berkeley meets the eminent scholar George Steiner , formerly
Professor of Comparative Literature at St Anne's College, Oxford, and now Fellow of Churchill College, Cambridge. Professor Steiner talks eloquently about a wide spectrum of music, from music for the Jewish Liturgy by the 17th-century Italian Salamone da Rossi and a madrigal by Gesualdo to songs by Schubert, Poulenc, Edith Piaf and Oscar Hammerstein II.
Repeated tomorrow 3pm

Contributors

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Michael Berkeley
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George Steiner
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Edith Piaf
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Oscar Hammerstein Ii.

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Live music and the arts: broadcasts more live music than any other radio network. Classical music is its core. Genres include world and new music, jazz, speech and drama.

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