Inheritance Tracks
Summary: Celebrating the music that special guests cherish and would like to bestow to future generations.
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Opera singer Danielle de Niese shares her Inheritance Tracks. She inherits Barbra Streisand’s Evergreen and passes on I Know That My Redeemer Liveth from Handel’s Messiah.
Singer, actor, painter, choreographer, producer, Patti Boulaye chooses 'Nobody Knows The Trouble I've Seen' by Louis Armstrong and 'Earth Song' by Michael Jackson. .
Auschwitz survivor, Eva Schloss, inherits the 'Trout Quintet' by Schubert and passes on ‘What a Wonderful World’ by Louis Armstrong.
Razorlight’s lead singer Johnny Borrell picks The Beach Boys 'California Saga: The Beaks Of Eagles' and Regina Spektor 'Samson'.
Marjorie Wallace is the Founder and Chief Executive of SANE. She inherits Chopin's Ballade in G minor played by Vladimir Ashkenazy and passes on 'If I Loved You' from the original movie soundtrack of Rodgers and Hammerstein's Carousel.
Twice inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, Graham Nash of the Hollies and Crosby, Stills and Nash chooses his Inheritance Tracks; Samuel Barber's Adagio for Strings and Suite: Judy Blue Eyes by the aforementioned Crosby, Stills and Nash
Chris Hadfield is former Commander of the International Space Station. He chooses 'Where have all the flowers gone' by the Kingston Trio and 'The Story' by Brandi Carlile.
The artist Jack Vettriano chooses the tracks that mean something to him: he inherits Kitty Kallen's Little Things Mean A Lot and passes on My Father by Judy Collins
Journalist Kate Adie chooses the 'Housewiveâs choice' theme - 'In Party Mood' by the West End Celebrity Orchestra composed by Jack Strachey. And passes on 'Five Variants Of Dives And Lazarus' by Vaughan Williams.
Comedian Jennifer Saunders chooses The Q5 theme by Spike Milligan and Kate and Anna McGarrigle’s song ‘Talk to me of Mendocino’ sung by Kate and her children Rufus and Martha Wainwright.
John Challis, AKA Boycie from 'Only Fools and Horses' chooses: Peter Lind Hayes: Life Gets Tee-Jus, Don't It? And Whitesnake - Here I Go Again.
Cliff Richard is Britain's most enduring pop star, recently releasing his 100th album. He chooses 'Chewing Piece of Straw' by Jack Payne and his Orchestra and his own track 'We Don't Talk Anymore'.
Baroness Doreen Lawrence is the mother of murdered teenager Stephen Lawrence. Since his death she has campaigned for justice for the victims of race crime and founded the Stephen Lawrence Charitable Trust in 1998. She chooses ‘Redemption Song’ by Bob Marley and The Wailers and 'Hello Mama Africa' by Garnett Silk.
Judith Kerr is a children’s writer and illustrator whose books ‘The Tiger Who Came for Tea’ and ‘When Hitler Stole Pink Rabbit’ have been delighting children and young people for many years. She inherits the Johannes Brahms Lullaby Wiegenlied and It Ain't Necessarily So by George Gershwin.
Writer Margaret Atwood chooses Beethoven’s 6th Symphony and Joan Sutherland singing Casta Diva from the opera Norma by Vincenzo Bellini.