Dame Ottoline Leyser
Michael Berkeley's guest is botanist and chief executive of UK Research and Innovation, Dame Ottoline Leyser.
Professor Dame Ottoline Leyser first realised plants are extraordinary and astonishing at school, when introduced to the round and wrinkled peas of Gregor Mendel. She is fascinated by plant genetics and as Regius Professor of Botany at the University of Cambridge her particular focus has been on a hormone called auxin which controls the growth of plants.
In 2020, she was appointed the chief executive of UK Research and Innovation whose mission is to work in partnership with research organisations, universities, businesses, charities and government to 鈥減ush the frontiers of human knowledge and understanding" and deliver economic, social and cultural impact, with a budget of more than 拢8 billion each year.
Dame Ottoline is a fellow of the Royal Society and in 2017 she was appointed DBE for services to plant science, science in society and equality and diversity in science.
Her music choices include Mozart, Vaughan Williams and Debussy.
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Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina
Super flumina Babylonis
Ensemble: The Sixteen. Conductor: Harry Christophers.- Palestrina Volume 6.
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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Don Giovanni (Act II Finale)
Singer: Umberto Chiummo. Singer: Bo Skovhus. Singer: Alessandro Corbelli. Orchestra: Scottish Chamber Orchestra. Conductor: Charles Mackerras.- Mozart: The Great Operas.
- Telarc.
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Claude Debussy
La fille aux cheveux de lin (Preludes, Book 1)
Performer: Jean-Efflam Bavouzet.- Debussy: Complete works for piano vol.1: Bavouzet.
- Chandos.
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Camille Saint鈥怱a毛ns
Introduction and Rondo Capriccioso Op.28
Performer: Nicola Benedetti. Orchestra: Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Vasily Petrenko.- Fantasie.
- Decca.
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Sergey Rachmaninov
Piano Concerto No 2 in C minor, Op 18 (1st mvt)
Performer: Krystian Zimerman. Orchestra: Boston Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Seiji Ozawa.- Rachmaninov: Piano Concertos Nos. 1&2 Zimerman/Boston Symphony Orchestra/ Ozawa.
- Deutsche Grammaphon.
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Arthur Sullivan
The Elements
Lyricist: Tom Lehrer. Singer: Tom Lehrer.- Dr Demento's 30th Anniversary Collection.
- Rhino.
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Ralph Vaughan Williams
Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis
Orchestra: London Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Sir Roger Norrington.- Decca.
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