James May
Sunday 4 February 2007 12:00-13:00 (Radio 3)
Michael Berkeley's guest is Top Gear presenter James May, who plays piano and flute and studied music at university.
His choices include music by Dunstable, Francois Couperin, Bach, Chopin, Britten and Messaien, alongside a very unusual rendering of the Top Gear theme tune.
Private Passions playlist 4 February 2007
M Berkeley: The Wakeful Poet (from Music from Chaucer)
Beaux Arts Brass Quintet
Top Gear Theme Tune
Artist's private recording
John Dunstable: 'Quam Pulcra Es'
EMI CDC 7490022 - TRACK 7
Hilliard Ensemble/Paul Hillier
L Berkeley: 'Allegro moderato'
from 'Sonatina for flute and piano'
KLT KLT008 - TRACK 6
Julian Sperry (flute) & Carole Presland (piano)
F Couperin: "Les Baricades Misterieuses'
COLLINS CLASSICS 50242 - TRACK 15
Virginia Black - Harpsichord
J S Bach: 'Corrente and Double' from
'Partita no 1 in B minor BWV 1002'
PHILIPS 42094821 - TRACKS 3 & 4
Viktoria Mullova - violin
F Chopin: 'Prelude no 24 in D minor'
DG 42922721 - TRACK 24
Ivo Pogorelich (piano)
B Britten: 'The Old Lute' from 'Songs from the Chinese Op 58'
RCA 09026615832 (28) - TRACK 2
Julian Bream (lute) and Sir Peter Pears (tenor)
O Messiaen: 'Amen de la Creation' from 'Visions de l'Amen'
EMI CDC75405021 - TRACK 1
Alexandre Rabinovitch/Martha Argerich (two pianos)
J S Bach: 'Toccato in G Minor BMV 915'
Bach: The Toccatas (Hyperion CDA67310 - track 6)
Angela Hewitt (piano)
