John Suchet
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157 appearances
1 recordings
1 series
first heard Jun 2026
last heard 28 Jun
John Suchet’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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He wasn't born deaf.
He knew what it sounded like, which is why he was able to continue to compose right through the deafness.
And interestingly, the pastoral, which your dad played for, is the only piece of orchestral music Beethoven ever wrote in which he told us exactly what it was supposed to depict.
You know, he put a title at the top of every movement.
Happy feelings on arriving in the countryside, seen by the brook, the merry gathering of country folk, the storm shepherds him a thanks.
Otherwise, with other compositions, he would say, don't try to read into my music, just listen to it.
But he broke his own rule gloriously with the pastoral.
This is so true, Pat.
It is so true.
I have two brothers.
And of the three of us, I'm the only one who went to university.
And dad was quite pleased about that.
I had no idea what I was going to do.
But when I decided in my final year, I said to him, look, I'm not
too bad at modern languages and I'm obsessed with the news.
I'm going to try for Reuters news agency, et cetera, et cetera.
He said, okay, yeah, good.
You've got your degree, something to fall back on.
And my brother, David, who is two and a quarter years younger than me, I can still remember him as an 18 year old sitting at the kitchen table with dad and dad's thumping the table over my dead body.
Will you go to drama school?
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