Professor David Gordon
Sunday 26 November 2006 12:00-13:00 (Radio 3)
Michael Berkeley's guest is Professor David Gordon, Vice-President and former Dean of the Medical Faculty of Manchester University.
A keen music lover and amateur cellist, his personal choice of music includes string quartets by Janacek and Schoenberg, a Byrd Fantasia for viol consort, a movement from Messaien's Quartet for the End of Time and Schoenberg's arrangement of Johann Strauss's waltz Roses from the South
Private Passions playlist 26 November 2006
M BerkeleyThe Wakeful Poet (Music from Chaucer) (pub OUP)
Beaux-Arts Brass Quintet
BBQ BBQ 003 T10
MussorgskyKhovanshchina Prelude: Dawn over the River Moscow
Kirov Opera Orchestra, St Petersburg/Valery Gergiev
Mussorgsky Khovanshchina PHILIPS 432 147-2 CD1 T1
Byrd Fantasia a 4
Phantasm
Byrd Fantasias SIMAX PSC 1191 T2
Janacek String Quartet No 2 Intimate letters (final movement)
The Lindsays
Janacek ASV PLT 8509 T4
Schoenberg String Quartet no 2, Op 10
Margaret Price (soprano), LaSalle Quartet
Schoenberg String Quartets DG 419 994-2 CD1 T8
Messiaen Danse de la fureur, pour les sept trompettes [6th movt Quartet for the end of time]
Huguette Fernadez (violin), Guy Deplus (clarinet), Jacques Nielz (cello), Marie-Madeleine Petit (piano)
Messiaen Edition WARNER CLASSICS 2564 62162-2 CD4 T6
Johann Strauss arr. Schoenberg Roses from the South
Arditti Quartet, Hakon Austbo (harmonium), Louis Bessette (piano)/Michel Beroff Schoenberg Transcriptions
MONTAIGNE MO 782 160 T8
