Timothy West
Sunday 20 June 2004 12:00-13:00 (Radio 3)
Michael Berkeley's guest today is one of Britain's best-loved actors. Timothy West has played a vast range of roles on stage and screen, from Lear and Falstaff to Stalin, Thomas Beecham, Edward VII and Winston Churchill. This year he has appeared on TV in The Inspector Lynley Mysteries and The Alan Clark Diaries, among others. His musical tastes range widely, from Gretry and Mozart to Poulenc and Sonny Rollins.
Playlist
M Berkeley
The Wakeful Poet (Music from Chaucer) (pub OUP)
Beaux-Arts Brass Quintet
BBQ BBQ 003 T10
Mozart
Rondo (from Serenade in B flat for 13 wind instruments, K361)
London Mozart Players/Jane Glover
NOVELLO NVLCD 103 T7
Sonny Rollins
St Thomas
Sonny Rollins (tenor sax), Tommy Flanagan (piano), Doug Watkins (bass), Max Roach (drums)
PRESTIGE OJCCD 291-2 T1
Schumann
Mondnacht (from Liederkreis, Op 39)
Sophie Daneman (soprano), Julius Drake (piano)
EMI CDZ 572828-2 T5
Marin Marais
Le basque
Dennis Brain (horn), Wilfred Parry (piano)
BBC BBCL 4048-2 T5
Dory Previn
Play it again, Sam (from Reflections in a Mud Puddle)
LP: UNITED ARTISTS UAG 29346 S1 B5
Rachmaninov
Only Begotten Son (from The Liturgy of St John Chrysostom)
Choir of the St Nicholas Church in Tolmachi at the State Tretyakov Gallery/Alexei Pouzakov
ARTISTOTIPIA AN 127 T5
Gretry
Zémir et Azor - Pantomime
RPO/Thomas Beecham
EMI CDM 763401-2 T13
Poulenc
Piano Concerto (3rd movement, Rondeau à la Francaise)
Pascal Roge (piano), Philharmonia Orchestra/Charles Dutoit
DECCA 436 546-2 T3
Verdi
Willow Song (from Otello Act 4)
Leonie Rysanek (Desdemona) Miriam Pirrazini (Emilia) Rome Opera Orchestra/Tullio Serafin
RCA 09026 63180-2/B CD2 T11
