Prof Brian Foster
Sunday 4 May 2008 12:00-13:00 (Radio 3)
Michael Berkeley's guest is Prof Brian Foster, one of Britain's leading scientists working in the field of particle physics. He is also a violinist and has teamed up with young soloist Jack Liebeck to create Superstrings, a lecture/performance that uses music to unravel the complex world of particle physics. His choices include a selection of violin works, from the Brahms and Bruch concertos to sonatas by Mozart and Prokofiev, as well as a mass by Palestrina, Shostakovich's Piano Trio and My Funny Valentine performed by Chet Baker.
Private Passions playlist 4 May 2008
M BerkeleyThe Wakeful Poet (Music from Chaucer) (pub OUP)
Beaux-Arts Brass Quintet
BBQ BBQ 003 T10
Brahms Violin Concerto (3rd movement)
Bronislaw Huberman (violin), New York Philharmonic-Symphony Orchestra/Artur Rodzinski [Live recording, 23 January, 1944]
Bronislaw Huberman MUSIC AND ARTS CD1122 T3
Palestrina Missa Papae Marcelli (Kyrie, opening)
Oxford Camerata/Jeremy Summerly
Palestrina Naxos 8.550573 T1
Mozart Violin Sonata in E flat major, K380 (3rd movement: Rondeau, Allegro)
Arthur Grumiaux (violin) & Walter Klien (piano)
Mozart PHILIPS 412 141-2 CD3 T3
Bach Goldberg Variations (No.30 Quodlibet & Aria da capo) (1955 recording)
Glenn Gould (piano)
A State of Wonder SONY SM3K 87703 CD1 T31-32
Rodgers and Hart My Funny Valentine
Chet Baker (vocal), Russ Freeman (piano), Carson Smith (bass), Bob Neel (drums)
Blue Valentines BLUE NOTE CDP7181331-2 T16
Shostakovich Piano Trio No. 2 (2nd movement, Scherzo)
Dmitri Shostakovich (piano), David Oistrakh (violin), Milos Sadlo (cello)
David Oistrakh LP SUPRAPHON 2371 S2 B2
MozartSoave sia il vento (Cosi fan tutti Act I, Scene 2)
Elisabeth Schwarzkopf (Fiordiligi), Nan Merriman (Dorabella), Sesto Bruscantini (Don Alfonso), Philharmonia Orchestra/Herbert von Karajan
Cosi fan tutti NAXOS 8.111232-34 CD17
Prokofiev Violin Sonata No. 2 in D, Op 94 (4th movement Allegro molto)
Jack Liebeck (violin) & Katya Apekisheva (violin)
Jack Liebeck QUARTZ QTZ 2002 T4
Bruch Violin Concerto No. 1 in G minor, Op 26 (1st Movement (opening))
Joshua Bell (violin), Academy of St. Martin in the Fields/Neville Marriner
Bruch/Mendelssohn DECCA 421 145-2 T1
