Derren Brown
Sunday 23 December 2007 12:00-13:00 (Radio 3)
Michael Berkeley meets Derren Brown, who over the last seven years has enthralled audiences with his famous experiments in 'Mind Control', a potent blend of psychology, illusion and showmanship.
A passionate music-lover, Derren listens every day to Bach, especially the Goldberg Variations and Cello Suites, and many of his choices have a spiritual nature, including Tallis' 40-part motet Spem in alium and Elgar's oratorio The Dream of Gerontius.
He also reveals that he used the slow movement of Beethoven's 'Emperor' Piano Concerto in a live stage show to accompany the slow and painful process of hammering a nail into his nose!
Private Passions playlist 23 December 2007
1 Sig M Berkeley: The Wakeful Poet (from Music from Chaucer)
(Berkeley/OUP)
Beaux Arts Brass Quintet
2 J S Bach : 'Prelude' from Cello Suite no 1 in G Major
Mercury 4327572 - CD1 Track 1
Janos Starker (cello)
3 Thomas Tallis : Spem in Alium
Gimell CDGIM006 - Track 1
The Tallis Scholars (dir Peter Phillips)
4 Beethoven: 2nd mvt 'Adagio' from
Piano Concerto no 5 in E flat Op 73 'Emperor'
'Beethoven Piano Concerto no 5 'Philips 4224822 [1] - Track 2
Stephen Bishop Kovacevich (piano),
London Symphony Orchestra/Sir Colin Davis
5 Richard Strauss : 'Morgen!' Op 27 no 4
'Strauss Alpine Symphony etc' Chandos CHAN8557 - Track 25
Felicity Lott (soprano), Scottish National Orchestra,
Leader : Edwin Paling (violin solo), Neeme Jarvi (conductor)
6 Elgar : 'Praise to his Name !/Take Me Away' from
The Dream of Gerontius
Chandos CHAN86412 - CD2 Track 4/5/6 EXCERPT
Arthur Davies (Gerontius), Felicity Palmer (The Angel),
London Symphony Orchestra/Richard Hickox
7 Anita Baker: Sweet Love
'Rapture' Elektra 7559 60444-2 - Track 1
(Anita Baker/Louis A Johnson, Gary Blas,
Old Brompton Road Music (ASCAP), Jobete Music)
8 J S Bach: 'Aria da capo' from Goldberg Variations BWV 988
Sony Classical SK89243 - Track 32
Murray Perahia (piano)
