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Rupert Everett

Michael Berkeley's guest is the actor and writer Rupert Everett, whose musical passions include Handel, Purcell, Wagner and Mahler.

Rupert Everett left school at 16 to train as an actor and first shot to wider fame in 1984 as a dashing public schoolboy in the film Another Country.

Since then his career has been defiantly unpredictable: he’s starred in Hollywood films, taken leading roles on stage in the West End and on Broadway, and directed, written and played the lead in a passion project about Oscar Wilde’s final years.

He’s made documentaries and written three candid and acclaimed memoirs. Most recently he’s turned to short stories with a collection called The American No, drawing on ideas he had pitched to film producers, all of which were rejected.

His musical passions include works by Handel, Purcell, Wagner and Mahler.

Presenter Michael Berkeley
Producer Clare Walker

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1 hour, 26 minutes

Last on

Sun 28 Dec 202512:00
BBC Radio 3

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Music Played

  • George Frideric Handel

    I know that my Redeemer liveth (Messiah)

    Singer: Carolyn Sampson. Choir: The Sixteen. Conductor: Harry Christophers.
    • Coro.

  • Maurice Ravel

    Piano Concerto in G major (2nd mvt)

    Performer: Jean‐Efflam Bavouzet. Orchestra: BBC Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Yan Pascal Tortelier.
    • chandos.

  • Richard Wagner

    Parsifal: Act I. Prelude

    Orchestra: Hallé. Conductor: Mark Elder.
    • Halle.

  • Vangelis

    Love Theme (Blade Runner)

    • EastWest U.K..

  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Concerto in D minor for two violins, BWV 1043 (1st mvt)

    Performer: Petra Müllejans. Performer: Gottfried von der Goltz. Orchestra: Freiburg Baroque Orchestra.
    • Harmonia Mundi.

  • Ludwig van Beethoven

    Symphony No 9 in D minor, Op 125, 'Choral' (3rd mvt)

    Conductor: Günter Wand. Orchestra: North German Radio Symphony Orchestra.
    • RCA Classics.

  • Gustav Mahler

    Das Lied von der Erde: Von der Schonheit

    Singer: Kathleen Ferrier. Orchestra: Vienna Philharmonic. Conductor: Bruno Walter.
    • Decca.

  • Henry Purcell

    When I am laid in earth (from Dido and Aeneas)

    Singer: Joyce DiDonato. Orchestra: Il Pomo d’Oro. Conductor: Maxim Emelyanychev.
    • ERATO.

Broadcasts

  • Sun 17 Nov 202412:00
    BBC Radio 3
  • Sun 28 Dec 202512:00
    BBC Radio 3

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