Tuning in…
Tuning in…
Castaway
1 appearance
Businessman and philanthropist who created Dean Clough, a visionary mix of commerce, arts, and education in Halifax.
On the island
Eight records
Piano Concerto No. 1 in F-sharp minor, Op. 1 - III. Allegro vivace
Sergei Rachmaninoff with the Philadelphia Orchestra conducted by Leopold Stokowski
when I was fourteen I happened to buy one record in particular which was uh Rach Melinoff's first piano concerto, The Last Movement. It was the only record in the shop and I'd love to hear that record again.
Piano Trio No. 1 in B-flat major, D. 898 - II. Andante un poco mossoFavourite
Alfred Cortot, Jacques Thibaud and Pablo Casals
The great role model for that trio were the three great soloists, Alfred Corteau, Jacques Thibault, and Pablo Casals.
Piano Concerto, Op. 39 - II. Pezzo giocoso
John Ogdon with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Daniell Revenaugh
this is John Ogden giving the first recording of the great Bizzoni piano concerto. Bizzoni himself described it as the skyscraper of a concerto. It lasts for an hour. It's got a male voice choir in the final movement singing a hymn to Allah, but this particular movement that I've chosen really shows the scintillating playing of John Ogden.
London Symphony Orchestra conducted by Antal Doráti
I don't think I could exist without the haunting romantic music, the ultimate romantic music of Albenberg, and I'd love to hear the opening of the Berg Lulu suite.
Frank Sinatra, Jack Wolf and Joel Herron
one of the great excitements for me has been sharing their discoveries. And my life would never have been the same if I hadn't listened to the kind of music which they love.
Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau with the Vienna Philharmonic conducted by Sir Georg Solti
I think the greatest love music ever written and the greatest love story is Wagner's love story of Siegfried and Brunhilde, the ultimate love story of the hero and the goddess from Goethe Dammerung.
Scherzo No. 3 in C-sharp minor, Op. 39
Shopping has been so important to me for the whole of my life that I thought it would be something I'd like to do. Would be to record the complete works of Chopin.
Walter Becker and Donald Fagen
there's one group which has weathered the test of time for the past twenty years. And so I think I've got to have this one group, Steely Dan, and I want to h listen to Black Cow, which will remind me of all these other wonderful groups who are perhaps more transient but still enjoyable temporarily.
In conversation
Presenter asks
1:41How long ago did you first dream of creating this practical utopia, Dean Clough?
For me it's a dream world come true. It's a world I first glimpsed when my children started at Dartington because that really had all of those elements involved in it, education, culture, commerce and school.
Presenter asks
6:40How did you know about music, living in a poor end of Bolton with unemployed parents?
Well, I was very lucky. I one day when I was about eight years old in the primary school, which was Saint George's in Bolton, someone came in not one of the regular teachers, but somebody came in with a wind up grammar phone. And he started to talk to us about music. … I think I was just mesmerized by the idea that music could have this kind of story. And I listened to the music, and from that moment, everything in my life changed.
Presenter asks
11:16You've said your parents were resentful of everything you were trying to do. Why was that?
It's very hard when you when you come from a poor working class family, my parents had started work at the age of eleven as half-timers and they were so proud to be earning money for the family and I think that they understandably had a sense that every child has got a duty as soon as possible to contribute to the coffers of the family … they saw every year added to the education at school as a nail in the coffin as it were.
The keepsakes
The book
The Complete Works of William Blake
William Blake
I'd love to have the complete works of William Blake. It does come in one book, and Blake's meant so much to me during my life. When I was a student in Manchester, I used to go and look at the Ancient of Days in the Whitworth Gallery, which is just walking distance from the Royal Medicine College, so he's been a very important part of my life.
Presenter asks
16:28Is it because of John Ogdon and a fear of your own lack of talent that you turned to business instead of music?
Well there was a transition. I had to do, at the end of my studies, I had to do two years national service and I went into the army and I learnt to type. … And I decided to get a job. And it happened to be a job in a textile mill in Yorkshire, which was extraordinary. … And instead, I found myself going back into a mill. And the astonishing thing was … I just loved it. I s loved the smell. I loved the people. I loved the culture. I love the whole sense of the creativity of it. … so I fell in love with Enterprise.
Presenter asks
29:22When did you decide that it might be possible after all to become a professional pianist?
It was really around 1990. I was then 60. And … My success in Dean Klupp uh led to more interest in my piano playing. … I believe, like everybody else and most people believe, that if you haven't done it when you're thirty or forty, you'll never do it. And for me, it was an astonishing discovery that at the age of sixty five I could pick up a dream that I'd had when I was twenty five. And realize it.
“actually the future is not something we inherit, but something we can create.”
“We have to change our idea of what work is. We have to change our idea of what people can do.”
“I've often said when we speak to my children, we look at ourselves through an electronic microscope and we look at everybody else through rose-coloured spectacles.”
“I thought I was my destiny as a parent was to lead, but I now realize it's to follow that one of the great excitements for me has been sharing their discoveries.”