Mark Ravenhill
Sunday 6 January 2008 12:00-13:00 (Radio 3)
Michael Berkeley talks to the controversial playwright Mark Ravenhill, whose musical choices have a strongly political slant and reveal a passion for opera.
They range from Offenbach's satirical comedy Orpheus in the Underworld, to Beethoven's Fidelio, Verdi's Rigoletto, John Adams's Nixon in China and Britten's Peter Grimes.
Private Passions playlist 6 January 2008
Sig M Berkeley: The Wakeful Poet (from Music from Chaucer)
(Berkeley/OUP)
Beaux Arts Brass Quintet
Offenbach - 'You've Gone Too Far' from Orpheus In The Underworld
CLASSICS FOR PLEASURE DISC 1 TRACK 3
Orpheus: Kevin Miller/Eurydice: June Bronhill; Sadlers Wells Opera & Orchestra/Alexander Faris
Brecht/Hanns Eisler - 'Hollywood Elegie nr 7' from 'Hollywood Songbook'
DECCA 4750532 - track 27
Matthias Goerne, baritone/Eric Schneider, piano
Verdi: 'Ah! piu non ragiono!' (Act III - Rigoletto)
Verdi: Rigoletto EMI CDC 747469 2 - CD 2 TRACK 15
Maria Callas (Gilda), Adriana Lazzarini (Maddalena),
Nicola Zaccaria (Sparafucile),
Orchestra & Chorus of La Scala Milan/Tullio Serafin
John Adams: 'I am the wife of Mae Tse-tung' from Nixon in China
Nixon In China Excerpts Nonesuch 9791932 TRACK 16
Trudie Ellen Craney (Chiang Ch'ing), Orchestra of St Luke's/Edo de Waart
Adams/Goodman/Red Dawn Music BMI
Beethoven: Prisoners' Chorus - Fidelio (Finale, Act 1)
Beethoven: Fidelio DG 5194362 - CD1 TRACK 18
Karl Terkal, Alfred Sramek, Vienna State Opera Chorus, Vienna Philharmonic/Leonard Bernstein
Sondheim: 'I Never do Anything Twice' from 'Side by Side by Sondheim'
Side by Side (Sondheim) Original London Cast RCA 18512RG - TRACK 11
Millicent Martin
Sondheim/?
Britten - Interlude IV 'Passacaglia' from Peter Grimes
Britten: Peter Grimes DECCA LEGENDS 467 682-2 Disc 2 Track 5
Orchestra of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden/Benjamin Britten
