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Man of Action

on BBC Radio 3

Ivan Sutton. who founded the City Music Society in London in 1943. has recently abandoned his career as a tea merchant to become an impresario. He relates how his life in music all started with a wind-up gramophone with a broken spring by a hospital bed; his personal choice of records includes Litolffs Scherzo with IRENE SCHARRER as soloist. MYRA BESS playing Beethoven, BEECHAM conducting Handel, a movement from a Haydn Quartet, and the Adagio from Schubert's String Quintet in which the TANEYEV QmRTET is joined by ROSTROPOVICH.

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Ivan Sutton.
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Irene Scharrer

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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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