Private PassionsDame Judi Dench
Sunday 3 October 2004 12:00-13:00 (Radio 3)
Today Michael Berkeley explores the musical private passions of Dame Judi Dench, one of Britain's best-loved actresses. Internationally renowned for stage, film and TV roles ranging from Shakespearian heroines to Queen Victoria in Mrs Brown, Elizabeth I in Shakespeare in Love, Iris Murdoch in Iris and M in the recent James Bond films, her choices today include works by Bach, Bernstein, Stravinsky, Rachmaninov and Sir Peter Maxwell Davies.
Duration:1 hour |
 Playlist M Berkeley The Wakeful Poet (Music from Chaucer) Beaux-Arts Brass Quintet BBQ BBQ 003 T10
Bernstein Psalm 23 and Psalm 2 (vv 1-4) (from Chichester Psalms) John Bogart (alto), Camerata Singers, New York PO/Leonard Bernstein SONY SMK 60595 T5
Stravinsky The Rite of Spring (opening) Columbia SO/Igor Stravinsky SONY SM3K 46291 CD2 T16-18
Shakespeare When in disgrace with fortune and men’s eyes (Sonnet 29) Sir John Gielgud LP ARGO SPA 573 S2 B1
Miles Davis Blue in Green from Kind of Blue Miles Davis (trumpet), Cannonball Adderley (alto), John Coltrane (tenor), Bill Evans (piano), Paul Chambers (bass), Jimmy Cobb (drums) COLUMBIA LEGACY CK 64935 T3
John Rutter What sweeter music Choir of King’s College, Cambridge/Stephen Cleobury EMI 5 56605-2 T9
Bach Brandenburg Concerto No 1 (3rd movement) The English Concert/Trevor Pinnock ARCHIV 423 492-2 CD1 T3
Maxwell Davies An Orkney Wedding, with Sunrise George MacIlwham (bagpipes), RPO/Sir Peter Maxwell Davies COLLINS 14442 T16
Rachmaninov Piano Concerto No 3 in D minor, Op 30 (opening of the 1st movement, allegro ma non tanto) Vladimir Ashkenazy (piano), LSO/André Previn DECCA 473 251-2 CD2 T1
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