John Humphrys, one of Britain’s best-known broadcasters, joins the Classic FM team to share his own stories and reflections of his favourite composers and their music, every Sunday, 4pm to 7pm.
With a successful career spanning six decades, John has presented on both radio and TV, and has anchored many of the country’s flagship news programmes, including the Today Programme.
The great Daniel Barenboim turns 80 later this year and, to celebrate, the great pianist and conductor is releasing a trio of albums. John plays a track from the latest; a reissue of his 1974 recording of Mendelssohn’s Songs Without Words.
Then, John includes a recording of a classical work surrounded in mystery. Why did Schubert never complete his Symphony No.8, the famed ‘Unfinished’? John chooses a recording from Thomas Dausgaard and the Swedish Chamber Orchestra.
