Christina Coker
Sunday 24 October 2004 12:00-13:00 (Radio 3)
Michael Berkeley's guest today is Christina Coker, chief executive of the National Foundation for Youth Music, a charity whose aim is to facilitate and fund high quality musical experiences for children and young people.
An active musician herself, Christina Coker has spent all her professional life working in music and education. Her choices today range from Orlando Gibbons, Mendelssohn and George Benjamin to the Julian Joseph Quartet and Ladysmith Black Mambazo.
Playlist
M. Berkeley: The Wakeful Poet (from Music from Chaucer) (pub. OUP)
Beaux-Arts Brass Quintet BBQ BBQ 003 T.10
1. Gibbons: The Silver Swan
The Consort of Music/Anthony Rooley Oiseau-Lyre 585 714-2 T.13
2. Farmer: Fair Phyllis
The King’s Singers EMI EMX 2129 T.11
3. Ladysmith Black Mambazo: Dlondlobalo Njalo
Ladysmith Black Mambazo Wrasse WRASS 100 T.5
4. Beethoven: Quartet in C sharp minor, Op.131 (5th mvt – presto)
Lindsay String Quartet ASV CDDCS 403 Disc 3 T.5 (exc.)
5. Mendelssohn: Song without Words in D, Op.109
Jacqueline du Pré (cello)/Gerald Moore (piano) EMI CDC 555529 2 T.5
6. Stravinsky: Sacrificial Dance (from The Rite of Spring) (pub. Boosey)
Philadelphia Orchestra/Riccardo Muti EMI CDC 747408 2 T.28
7. Irving Berlin: Let Yourself Go (pub. Chappell)
Ginger Rogers/Jimmy Dorsey and his Orchestra Past Perfect PPC 78113 T.9
8. Benjamin: Invention I (from Three Inventions for Chamber Orchestra) (pub. Faber)
John Wallace (flugelhorn)/London Sinfonietta/George Benjamin Nimbus NI 5505 T.2
9. Julian Joseph: Ode to the Time our Memories Forgot
Julian Joseph (piano) Eastwest 9031-75122
