Joan Bakewell
Sunday 15 October 2006 12:00-13:00 (Radio 3)
Michael Berkeley talks to the writer and broadcaster Joan Bakewell.
Her choices reflect her strong belief in life-affirming qualities and include a Mozart symphony, the finale of Schumann's Piano Concerto, Janacek's Intimate Letters Quartet and the finale of Rodgers and Hammerstein's Oklahoma!
Private Passions playlist 15 October
M Berkeley The Wakeful Poet (Music from Chaucer) (pub OUP)
Beaux-Arts Brass Quintet BBQ BBQ 003
Britten Royaute (from Les Illuminations)
Heather Harper (soprano), Northern Sinfonia/Neville Marriner Britten
HMV SXLP 30194 S1
Mozart Symphony No 25 in G Minor (1st movement, excerpt)
Prague CO/Charles Mackerras
TELARC CD 80300 CD6
Dolly Parton The Beautiful Lie Little Sparrow
SANCTURY SAN CD 074
Janacek String Quartet No 2 (Intimate Letters) (2nd movement, Adagio)
Talich Quartet
SUPRAPHON 1113542
Britten "Now the Great Bear and Pleiades" (Peter Grimes Act 1, scene 2)
Jon Vickers (Peter Grimes), Teresa Cahill, Anne Pashley (Nieces), John Dobson (Boles), Jonathan Summers (Balstrode), Elizabeth Bainbridge (Auntie), Chorus & Orchestra of the ROH, Covent Garden/Colin Davis Sir Colin Davis PHILIPS 432 578-2
Schumann Piano Concerto in A minor, Op 54 (Finale: Allegro vivace)
Stephen Kovacevich (piano), BBC SO/Colin Davis Grieg/Schumann
PHILIPS 446 192-2
Rodgers and Hammerstein Oklahoma! (from Oklahoma! Act 2)
Hugh Jackman (Curly), Josefina Gabrielle (Laurey), Maureen Lipman (Aunt Eller), David Shelmerdine (Ike), Craig Purnell (Fred) National Theatre Production, 1998/John Owen Edwards (music director) Oklahoma!
FIRST NIGHT CASTCD69 T16
Jonathan Harvey I Love the Lord
The Joyful Company of Singers/Peter Broadbent
ASV CDDCA917
