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Private Passions

3 April 2005

Sunday 3 April 2005 12:00-13:00 (Radio 3)

Michael Berkeley?s guest is the poet Anne Stevenson, acclaimed as one of the most intelligent, assured and skilful writers of our time. Brought up in the USA, where she trained as a musician, she came to Britain in the 1950s, and has published several award-winning collections of poetry, including most recently, Granny Scarecrow and A Report from the Border, as well as a controversial biography of Sylvia Plath.

She is as passionate about music as she is about poetry, and her choices range from Bach to Messiaen.

Duration:

1 hour

Playlist

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

Bach: Prelude and Fugue in C# major, BWV848 (from The Well-Tempered Clavier, Book I) 
Bernard Roberts (piano) 
Nimbus NI 5608 Disc 1 T.5-6

Bach: Suite No.5 in C minor, BWV 1011 (4th mvt - Sarabande) 
Pierre Fournier (cello) 
DG 419 359-2 Disc 1 T.16

Schumann: Fürchtenmachen + Kind im Einschlummern (from Kinderszenen, Op.15) 
Wilhelm Kempff (piano) 
DG 439 476-2 T.14-15

Schubert: Piano Quintet in A, D.667 - "The Trout" (4th mvt - Theme & Variations) 
Artur Schnabel (piano)/Members of the Pro Arte Quartet/Claude Hobday (double bass)
Andante 1991-4 Disc 1 T.8

Chopin: Preludes in C# minor, Op.28/10; and F major, Op.28/23 
Martha Argerich (piano) 
DG 463 663-2 T.10 + 23

Messiaen: Abîme des oiseaux (opening) (from Quartet for the End of Time) 
Guy Deplus (clarinet) 
Erato 4509-91708-2 T.3 (exc.)

Beethoven: Sonata in A flat, Op.110 (3rd mvt - Arioso dolente) 
Bernard Roberts (piano) 
Nimbus NI 7709 T.6

Messiaen: Louange à l'immortalité de Jésus (from Quartet for the End of Time) 
Huguette Fernandez (violin)/Marie-Madeleine Petit (piano) 
Erato 4509-91708-2 T.8





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