Mark Ravenhill
Sunday 13 May 2007 12:00-13:00 (Radio 3)
Michael Berkeley's guest is one of Britain's best-known contemporary playwrights, Mark Ravenhill. He shot to fame with a series of plays whose contemporary themes, black sense of humour and sensational subject-matter - exploring subjects such as alternative sexuality and drug-taking - have intrigued and scandalized audiences all over the world.
His musical choices have a strongly political slant and reveal a passion for opera, ranging 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 13 May 2007
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
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
