Lynsey Addario
Clive Myrie is in conversation with fellow journalists about music heard in their working lives. Award-winning photojournalist Lynsey Addario shares music and stories.
Clive Myrie is in conversation with fellow journalists about the music they鈥檝e heard whilst reporting from the front line. With his own extensive experience of covering wars, and his personal love of opera and jazz, Clive and Lynsey Addario share stories to reveal something of the power and significance of music when working in extreme conflict situations.
Lynsey Addario is an American photojournalist who鈥檚 been covering conflict, humanitarian crises, and women鈥檚 issues around the Middle East and Africa for more than two decades. She鈥檚 taken award-winning photographs for the front pages of The New York Times and National Geographic Magazine of conflicts in Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya, Lebanon, Darfur, South Sudan, Somalia, the DRC, Yemen, Syria, and the ongoing war in Ukraine.
Here she recalls the music that鈥檚 accompanied her working life:
The Prelude and Courante from Bach鈥檚 First Cello Suite played by Yo Yo Ma.
Khuttar written and performed by Ilham al-Madfai.
Wada Na Tod sung by Lata Mangeshkar.
Chopin鈥檚 Nocturne in C sharp minor played by Maria-Joao Pires.
Daydreamer performed by Adele.
The slow movement from Beethoven鈥檚 Moonlight Sonata played by Paul Lewis.
Cuando by Michel Elefteriades performed by Hanine.
Vivaldi鈥檚 Four Seasons Allegro (Spring), Nigel Kennedy with the English Chamber Orchestra.
Take me 成人快手, Country Roads sung by John Denver.
Producer: Rosie Boulton
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Johann Sebastian Bach
Cello Suite no.1 in G (Prelude)
Performer: Yo鈥怸o Ma. -
Johann Sebastian Bach
Cello Suite no.1 in G (Courante)
Performer: Yo鈥怸o Ma. -
Ilham al-Madfai
Khuttar
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Lata Mangeshkar
Wada Na Tod
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Fr茅d茅ric Chopin
Nocturne in C sharp minor
Performer: Maria Jo茫o Pires. -
Adele
Daydreamer
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Ludwig van Beethoven
Moonlight Sonata Op.27 No.2 (1st mvt: Adagio sostenuto)
Performer: Paul Lewis. -
Hanine
Cuando
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Antonio Vivaldi
Spring (The Four Seasons)(1st mvt: Allegro)
Performer: Nigel Kennedy. Orchestra: English Chamber Orchestra. -
John Denver
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