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Private Passions

Michael Rosen

Sunday 29 August 2004 12:00-13:00 (Radio 3)

Today Michael Berkeley talks to the poet, children's author and broadcaster Michael Rosen, whose work ranges from the much-loved Very Silly Poems for children, to two recent adult poetry anthologies, Carrying the Elephant, written in the aftermath of his 18-year-old son's sudden death from meningitis, and This Is Not My Nose, dealing with his own battle with chronic illness. His musical passions range from Beethoven and Mozart to Georges Brassens' Le Parapluie and Billy Pigg playing the Northumbrian pipes.

Duration:

1 hour

Playlist

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

1. Mozart: Non più andrai (from Le Nozze di Figaro, Act I) 
 Samuel Ramey (Figaro)/LPO/Sir Georg Solti Decca 410 150-2 Disc 1 T.9

2. Brassens: Le Parapluie
 Georges Brassens Philips 9101 043 S.2 B 2

3. Billy Pigg: The Wild Hills of Wannies; J.R.Pigg; Dargai
 Billy Pigg (Northumbrian pipes) Leader LEA 4006 S.2 B.3

4. Miles Davis: Freddie Freeloader (from Kind of Blue)
 Miles Davis (trumpet)/Julian “Cannonball” Adderley, John Coltrane (saxes)/Wynton Kelly (piano)/
 Paul Chambers (bass)/Jimmy Cobb (drums) Columbia CK 64935 T.2

5. Beethoven: Symphony No. 6 in F, Op.68 – “Pastoral” (3rd mvt – Peasants’ Merrymaking) 
 Chicago SO/Fritz Reiner RCA GD 60002 T.3

6. Léo Ferré: Paname
 Léo Ferré Barclay 80133 S.1 B.1

7. Franck: Violin Sonata in A (4th mvt – Allegretto poco mosso)
 Christian Ferras (violin)/Pierre Barbizet (piano) EMI 574872 2 Disc 1 T.4

8. Martin Luther: Ein feste Burg ist unser Gott
 Westfälische Kantorei/Wilhelm Ehmann 




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