Sandi Toksvig
Sunday 10 February 2008 12:00-13:00 (Radio 3)
Michael Berkeley talks to writer, performer and broadcaster Sandi Toksvig, who currently chairs BBC Radio 4's The News Quiz.
Her first love remains musical theatre, but she is now exploring other areas of classical music, ranging from operas by Mozart, Bizet and Puccini to Haydn's Creation.
Private Passions playlist 10 February 2008
M BerkeleyThe Wakeful Poet (Music from Chaucer) (pub OUP)
Beaux-Arts Brass Quintet
BBQ BBQ 003 T10
Bizet Carmen (Overture)
French National Radio Orchestra/Sir Thomas Beecham
Carmen EMI 5 56241-2 CD1 T1
BernsteinI want to be in America (West Side Story)
Carol Lawrence (Maria), Chita Rivera (Anita), Marilyn Cooper (Rosalia), Max Goberman (musical director)
West Side Sory COLUMBIA 60724 T7
Mozart O zittre nicht, mein lieber Sohn! (The Magic Flute, Act 1)
Natalie Dessay (The Queen of the Night), OAE/Louis Langree
Mozart Heroines VIRGIN 72432 5 45447-2 T13
Haydn The heavens are telling (The Creation)
Judith Raskin (soprano), Alexander Young (tenor), Jon Reardon (baritone), Camerata Singers, NYPO/Leonard Bernstein
Leonard Bernstein SONY SM2K 47560 CD1 T13
Charles Strouse/Martin CharninIt's the hard-knock life (Annie)
Original Cast Recording
Annie COLUMBIA CK34712 T3
Puccini O mio babbino caro (Gianni Schicchi)
Renee Fleming (soprano), LPO/Sir Charles Mackerras
Renee Fleming: By Request DECCA 475 542-2 T1
Johann Strauss IIThe Blue Danube: concert waltz, Op 314
RIAS Symphony Orchestra, Berlin/Ferenc Fricsay
Ferenc Fricsay: a life in music DG 474 383-2 CD4 T1
Andrew Lloyd Webber Unexpected Song
Bonnie Langford
Jazz at the Theatre T10
Orff O Fortuna (from Carmina Burana)
Choir and Orchestra of the Deutsche Opera, Berlin/Eugen Jochum
Carmina Burana DG 447 437-2 T25
