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Private Passions

18 July 2004

Sunday 18 July 2004 12:00-13:00 (Radio 3)

David McKie.

Today Michael Berkeley talks to the journalist David McKie, who has been writing for The Guardian for nearly 40 years. He now writes the Smallweed and Elsewhere columns, and has recently published a book on the 19th-century Liberal MP and crook Jabez Balfour. His musical choices range from Haydn, Beethoven and Chopin to Bartok, Ravel and the Oscar Peterson Trio.

Duration:

1 hour

Playlist

M. Berkeley
The Wakeful Poet (from Music from Chaucer )
Beaux-Arts Brass Quintet
BBQ BBQ 003 T.10 

Chopin
Polonaise in A flat, Op.53
Vladimir Ashkenazy (piano)
Decca 417 798-2 T.14

Bartok
Music for Strings, Percussion and Celeste (1st mvt - Andante tranquillo)
Philharmonia Hungarica/Antal Dorati
Philips 426 661-2 T.1

Ravel
Violin Sonata (2nd mvt - Blues: moderato)
Chantal Juillet (violin)/Pascal Roge (piano)
Decca 448 612-2 T.11

4. Clark Terry
Mumbles
Clark Terry/Oscar Peterson Trio
Laserlight 17432 T.4 


Haydn:
Piano Trio in G, Hob.XV/15 (Finale - Allegro moderato)
Beaux Arts Trio
Philips 454 098-2 Disc 6 T.3 


Britten
Midnight on the Great Western (from Winter Words, Op.52 )
Anthony Rolfe Johnson (tenor)/Graham Johnson (piano)
Hyperion CDH 55067 T.14 


Beethoven
Sonata in A flat, Op.110 (1 st mvt - Moderato cantabile molto espressivo)
Alfred Brendel (piano)
Philips 438 374-2 Disc 1 T.10




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