Dr Miriam Stoppard
Sunday 7 January 2007 12:00-13:00 (Radio 3)
Michael Berkeley's guest is writer and broadcaster Dr Miriam Stoppard. Her musical choices include violin works by Vaughan Williams and Sibelius, operas by Puccini, Britten and Debussy, Cole Porter, Miles Davis playing Gershwin, and Pink Floyd.
Private Passions playlist 7 January 2007
M BerkeleyThe Wakeful Poet (Music from Chaucer) (pub OUP)
Beaux-Arts Brass Quintet
BBQ BBQ 003 T10
Vaughan Williams The lark ascending (opening)
Iona Borwn (violin), ASMF/Neville Marriner
English Music DECCA 452 707-2 CD2 T2
Gershwin Summertime (from the album Miles Davis plays Porgy & Bess)
Miles Davis (flugelhorn), arranged and conducted by Gil Evans
COLUMBIA CK65141 T5
Sibelius Violin Concerto in D minor, Op 47 (1st Movement, opening)
Isaac Stern (violin), RPO/Sir Thomas Beecham
Sir Thomas Beecham SONY SMK 87799 T1
Cole Porter I've got you under my skin
Frank Sinatra, arranged and conducted by Nelson Riddle
Songs for Swinging Lovers CAPITOL 496 990-2 T9
Puccini Ch'ella mi creda (La Fanciulla del West Act 3)
Jose Cura (tenor), Philharmonia Orchestra/Placido Domingo
Puccini Arias ERATO 0630188382 T9
Pink Floyd Wish you were here
Wish you were here EMI 5361112 CD2 T10
Debussy Pelleas et Melisande (Act 3, scene 1; Melisande lets down her hair)
Irene Joachim (Melisande), Jacques Jansen (Pelleas), Orchestre Symphonique/Roger Desormiere
Debussy Pelleas et Melisande EMI CHS 761038-2 CD2 T1
Benjamin Britten Dawn (No 1 from the Four Sea Interludes from Peter Grimes)
LSO/Andre Previn
Britten EMI CDM 7 64736-2 T12
