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Walter Iuzzolino

Michael Berkeley’s guest is Italian television producer Walter Iuzzolino, a great Chopin fan.

Walter Iuzzolino is an Italian television presenter who has become well known on our screens thanks to Walter Presents, Channel 4’s free streaming service of European television dramas. He’s a man with a mission to open up European culture to the British, and he has now begun a specially curated publishing list too, so that we can read the latest European fiction. Alongside that latest venture, he’s created special playlists – because together with his passion for European television and literature, Walter Iuzzolino is a classical music fan, with a love of Chopin.

In conversation with Michael Berkeley, Walter reflects on the challenges of opening up British culture to β€œforeign” influences, and explains why he’d actually rather live in London than Genoa.

A Loftus Media production for ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ Radio 3
Produced by Elizabeth Burke

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Sun 26 Sep 2021 12:00
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Music Played

  • Richard Strauss

    Morgen, Op.27 no.4

    Singer: Elisabeth Schwarzkopf. Orchestra: London Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: George Szell.

  • Frank Chacksfield Orchestra

    J'attendrai

  • Jules Massenet

    C'est tois, mon pere (Thais)

    Singer: RenΓ©e Fleming. Singer: Thomas Hampson. Orchestra: Bordeaux-Aquitaine Orchestra. Conductor: Yves Abel.

  • Jules Massenet

    A cette heure supreme (Werther)

    Singer: Roberto Alagna. Singer: Angela Gheorghiu. Orchestra: London Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Sir Antonio Pappano.

  • Alexandre Desplat

    Birth Waltz ('Birth' Soundtrack)

  • FrΓ©dΓ©ric Chopin

    Waltz in B minor, Op.69 no.2

    Performer: Vladimir Ashkenazy.

  • Kurt Weill

    Lied des Lotteriagenten (Der Silbersee)

    Singer: Ute Lemper. Orchestra: Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin. Conductor: John Mauceri.

  • Charles Gounod

    Par quel trouble... Nuit resplendissante (Cinq-mars)

    Singer: Vesselina Kasarova. Orchestra: Munich Radio Orchestra. Conductor: FrΓ©dΓ©ric Chaslin.

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  • Sun 26 Sep 2021 12:00
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