Frank Johnson
Sunday 16 October 2005 12:00-13:00 (Radio 3)
Michael Berkeley's guest today is the political journalist Frank Johnson, former editor of The Spectator. His musical tastes range from Monteverdi, Bach and Gluck, through Verdi and Wagner to Bartok and Stravinsky.
Playlist
M Berkeley The Wakeful Poet (Music from Chaucer) (pub OUP)
Beaux-Arts Brass Quintet
BBQ BBQ 003 T10
Monteverdi L'incoronazione di Poppea Act 2, scene 2
Nigel Robson (Liberto), Francesco Ellero D'Artegna (Seneca), English Baroque Soloists/John Eliot Gardiner
ARCHIV 447 088-2 CD2 T5
Bach Konnen Tranen meiner Wangen (St Matthew Passion)
Janet Baker (mezzo soprano) Munich Bach Orchestra/Karl Richter
ARCHIV 427 704-2 CD3 T4
Gluck Unis des la plus tender enfance (from Iphigenie en Tauride)
Roberto Alagna (tenor), Orchestra of the ROH, CG/Bertrand de Billy
EMI CDC 557012-2 T10
Mozart Quartet Andro ramingo e solo (Idomeneo, Act 3, scene 3)
Agnes Baltsa (Idamante), Lucia Popp (Ilia), Luciano Pavarotti (Idomeneo) Edita Gruberova (Elettra), Vienna PO/John Pritchard
DECCA 411 805-2 CD3 T1
Wagner Immer ist Undank Loges Lohn! (from Das Rheingold scene 2)
Set Svanholm (Loge), Vienna PO/Georg Solti
EMI CZS 767124-2 CD1 T11
Verdi Il lacerato spirito Orchestral postlude ONLY (from Simon Boccanegra Prologue)
Orchestra of La Scala, Milan/Claudio Abbado
DG 449 752-2 CD1 T3
Stravinsky Scenes de ballet (excerpt)
CBC SO/Igor Stravinsky
SONY SM3K 46 292 CD2 T2
Bartok Music for strings, percussion and celeste (1st movement, Andante tranquillo)
Chicago SO/Fritz Reiner
RCA GD 60175 T6
