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This Week's Guest:
Anthony Grayling
10 August 2008
Repeated
15 August 2008 |
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Anthony's Choice |
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Kirsty Young's castaway this week is the philosopher Professor AC Grayling.
He was a child growing up in Africa when he was first drawn to philosophy because it offered, he says, a licence to study 'the whole horizon of human knowledge and endeavour'. It's a study he has undertaken seriously and practically - he has tried his hand at composing music, writing plays and painting - not because he wanted to master those skills, but to acquire a greater understanding of the talents of musicians, writers and artists.
He lives in London with his wife and young daughter and teaches at Birkbeck College, but he remains evangelical about taking philosophy out of the ivory towers and into people's homes - so that it is a practical tool to help people live lives that are engaging and fulfilling. He is motivated, he says, by the knowledge that the human life-span is fewer than a thousand months - and with our time so limited, it is incumbent upon us all to use it thoughtfully and well.
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1. The adagio from the Violin Concerto in D Major
Performer Yehudi Menuhin with the Berlin Philharmonic conducted by Rudolf Kempe
Composer Brahms
CD Title Great Violin Concertos
Track 2
Label DCLASSICS
Rec No DCL705742
2. Traumerei
Performer Vladimir Horowitz
Composer Schumann
CD Title Horowitz in Moscow
Track 13
Label DEUTSCHE GRAMMOPHON
Rec No 4194992
3. Days
Performer The Kinks
Composer Ray Davies
CD Title The Kinks: The Ultimate Collection
Track Cd1 trk 16
Label Sanctuary records
Rec No RTV0023
4. The Adagio from Beethoven’s 4th Symphony
Performer The Berlin Philharmonic conducted by Wilhelm Furtwangler.
Composer Beethoven
CD Title Wilhelm Furtwangler
Track 2
Label RCD
Rec No 25010
5. Nunc Dimittis
Performer The Choir of Magdalen College, Oxford directed by Bernard Rose
CD Title Music for Evensong
Track Side 1 trk 6
Label OXFORD
Rec No OX 100
6. The first movement of Saint-Saen’s Cello Concerto No 1
Performer Mstislav Rostropovich
Composer Saint Saens
CD Title Mstislav Rostropovich Cello Concertos/Encores
Track 1
Label DEUTSCHE GRAMMOPHON
Rec No 477 6505
7. Nocturne in E flat Major
Performer Vladimir Ashkenazy
Composer Chopin
CD Title Chopin Favourites: Vladimir Ashkenazy
Track 3
Label Decca
Rec No 4177982
8. Un Bel Di – One Good Day from Puccini’s Madam Butterfly
Performer Angela Gheorghiu
Composer Puccini
CD Title Opera Scenes and Arias
Track 10
Label ROYAL OPERA HOUSE
Rec No 75605550132
Record: Brahms Violin Concerto
Book: The Man Without Qualities – Robert Musil
Luxury: A good piano |
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