Sir Keir Starmer has revealed that he listens to Beethoven to deal with the “strains” of leading the Labour Party.
In an interview with Classic FM, Starmer, who as a child played the flute, the piano and the violin, said classical music was “a great release” for him because it “just takes you away from whatever the other strains of the day are, to a different place”.
Asked if there was a particular work he listened to after a difficult day at Westminster, Starmer highlighted the second movement of Beethoven’s fifth piano concerto, the Emperor Concerto. “There is that beautiful bit about a third of the way in where it’s just the piano, totally on its own to start with, sort of rolling down
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