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Guests from all walks of life discuss their musical loves and hates

Guests from all walks of life discuss their musical loves and hates, and talk about the influence music has had on their lives

Private Passions: Hugh Hudson

24/07/2011

Hugh Hudson

BBC Radio 3 - Private Passions, Hugh Hudson

Michael Berkeley's guest is film director Hugh Hudson.

Michael Berkeley's guest is film director Hugh Hudson. His musical choices include Strauss, Bach, Elgar, Ravel, Vangelis, John Corigliano, Thelonious Monk and Billie Holiday.

Michael Berkeley's guest today is film director Hugh Hudson, whose most successful feature film, 'Chariots of Fire' (1981) won four Academy Awards, and is said to have revitalized the British film industry. His next production, 'Greystoke - The Legend of Tarzan, Lord of the Apes' (1984) received four Oscar nominations, but 'Revolution' (1985) was a critical and commercial failure. He has since directed three more films, including 'Lost Angels' (1989) starring Donald Sutherland, and 'My Life So Far', and re-edited 'Revolution' in 2008 with a narration by Al Pacino. In the 1970s and 1980s he enjoyed great success with a series of high-budget commercials, especially for BA, Fiat, and Benson & Hedges.

Hugh Hudson is passionate about music, and his choices begin with Richard Strauss's radiant song 'Morgen', followed by the Aria from Bach's Goldberg Variations, played by Glenn Gould. He has also chosen the closing moments of Elgar's 'Dream of Gerontius', the 'Sunrise' section of Ravel's 'Daphnis and Chloe'; pieces by Vangelis, who composed the hugely successful 'Chariots of Fire' theme music, and by John Corigliano, who wrote the soundtrack for 'Revolution', and jazz pieces performed by Thelonius Monk and Billie Holiday.

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