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' Nil nisi optimum nothing but the best will do. That's the family motto of Nicholas Fair-bairn, Conservative mp for Kinross and West Perthshire, who describes himself as author, farmer, painter, poet, dress-designer, landscape fardener, and bon viveur.
Since he also claims to be in thrall to the human voice, his choice of nothing but the best in music includes Sutherland. Caballed Domingo, Baker, as well as choral music by Handel and Haydn, and part of Rossini's Stabat Mater : records Preview: page 15

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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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