Margaret Hodge MP
Sunday 20 July 2008 12:00-13:00 (Radio 3)
Michael Berkeley's guest is Margaret Hodge MP, a minister of state in the Department for Culture, Media and Sport. A keen music lover who plays the piano and the harp and enjoys singing with her family, her musical choices include operatic excerpts by Wagner, Bellini and Britten, piano music by Chopin and Beethoven, a song by Joan Baez and Debussy's Sonata for flute, viola and harp.
Private Passions playlist 20 July 2008
M BerkeleyThe Wakeful Poet (Music from Chaucer) (pub OUP)
Beaux-Arts Brass Quintet
BBQ BBQ 003 T10
Chopin Nocturne Op.9 No.2 in E flat
Artur Rubinstein (piano)
Artur Rubinstein RCA GD87725 T2
BelliniCasta diva (from Norma)
Cecilia Bartoli (mezzo soprano), Orchestra La Scintilla/Adam Fischer
Maria DECCA 475 9078 T17 [on CDR]
Wagner Overture to Tannhauser
New Philharmonia Orchestra Orchestra/Sir Adrian Boult
Sir Adrian Boult EMI CDM 763120-2 T3 [fade to 07 36]
Beethoven Piano Concerto No.4 in G, Op 58 (2nd movement, Andante con moto)
Daniel Barenboim (piano), New Philharmonia Orchestra/Otto Klemperer
Ludwig Van Beethoven EMI CMS 763360-2 CD2 T5
BrittenNow the Great Bear and Pleiedes (Peter Grimes, Act 1, scene 2)
Peter Pears (Grimes), Chorus and Orchestra of the ROH, CG/Benjamin Britten
Britten DECCA 467 682-2 CD1 T17 [fade to 02 32]
SchoenbergVerklarte Nacht (the end)
The Holly wood String Quartet with Alvin Dinkin (viola) and Kurt Reher (cello)
The Holly wood String Quartet TESTAMENT SBT 1031 T5
Ed McCurdy Last night I had the strangest dream
Joan Baez (voice and guitar)
Very Early Joan VANGUARD 662289 T1
Debussy Sonata for flute, viola and harp (Finale)
The Nash Ensemble
Debussy VIRGIN VC791148-2 T6
