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Private Passions

27 March 2005

Sunday 27 March 2005 12:00-13:00 (Radio 3)

Another classic from the first decade of Private Passions, in which the late Edward Said discusses his musical enthusiasms with Michael Berkeley. These range from keyboard music by Bach, Chopin and Messiaen, to operas by Berlioz, Wagner and Berg.

Duration:

1 hour

Playlist

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

Wagner: Das Rheingold (opening of Prelude)
Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra/Sir Georg Solti 
Decca 414 101-2 CD1 T.1

Bach: Canon at the Ninth (from Goldberg Variations)
Glenn Gould (piano)
Sony SMK 52594 T.28

Berg: Wozzeck (Act I Scene 1) (pub UE)
Franz Grundheber (Wozzeck)/Graham Clark (Hauptmann)/Staatskapelle Berlin/Daniel Barenboim
Teldec 0630-14108-2 T.1-4.

Chopin: Impromptu in F sharp, Op.36
Artur Rubinstein (piano)
 RCA RD 89911 T.2

Messiaen: Amen des Anges, des Saints, du Chant des Oiseaux (fromVisions de l'Amen) (pub. Durand)
Yvonne Loriod, Olivier Messiaen (pianos)
Ades 13.233-2 T.5

Schumann: Widmung (from Myrten, Op.25)
Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau (bariton)/Christoph Eschenbach (piano)
DG 415 190-2 T.29

Berlioz: Les Troyens (final scene of Act II)
Berit Lindholm (Cassandra)/Orchestra and Chorus of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden/Sir Colin Davis
Philips 416 432-2 CD2 T.5




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