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Private Passions

Kate Adie

Sunday 1 August 2004 12:00-13:00 (Radio 3)

Michael Berkeley's guest today is the BBC's former Chief News Correspondent Kate Adie, renowned for her fearless reporting from war zones around the world. Her musical private passions include works from Sweden and Georgia, English folk songs refashioned by Vaughan Williams, and music by Bruch, Wagner, Shostakovich and Puccini.

Duration:

1 hour

Playlist

Sig M. Berkeley
The Wakeful Poet (from Music from Chaucer )
Beaux-Arts Brass Quintet BBQ BBQ 003 T.10


1. Wagner
Siegfried Idyll (opening)
Philharmonia Orchestra/Otto Klemperer
EMI CMS 763277 2 Disc 2 T.3 (exc.) 

2. Gilbert & Sullivan
We're called gondolieri (from The Gondoliers )
Alexander Young (Marco)/John Cameron (Giuseppe)/Pro Arte Orchestra/Sir Malcolm Sargent
EMI CMS 764394 2 Disc 1 T.6 

3. Carl Michael Bellman
Fjariln vingad syns pa Haga
Aksel Schiotz (tenor)/Banjo Lasse (lute) (rec. 1940)
Danacord DACOCD 455 T.1 

4. Shostakovich
Waltz (from Jazz Suite No.1 )
Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra/Riccardo Chailly
Decca 433 702-2 T.1

5. Shen khar venakhi
Rustavi Choir/Ansor Erkomaishvili
Sony SMK 66823 T.2 

6. Bruch
Violin Concerto No.1 in G minor, Op.26 (2nd mvt - adagio)
Kyung-Wha Chung (violin)/LPO/Klaus Tennstedt
EMI CDC 754 072 2 T.5

7. Puccini
La Boheme (opening of Act II)
Angela Gheorghiu (Mimi)/ Roberto Alagna (Rodolfo)/Simon Keenlyside (Marcello)/
Roberto de Candia (Schaunard)/Ildebrando D'Arcangelo (Colline)/
Chorus and Orchestra of La Scala, Milan/Riccardo Chailly
Decca 468 070-2 Disc 1 T.11-13 

8. Vaughan Williams
Folk Songs from Somerset (from English Folk Song Suite )
LSO/Sir Adrian Boult
EMI CDC 747218 2 T.5 (exc.)




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