Stephen Fry
Sunday 26 December 2004 12:00-13:00 (Radio 3)
Michael Berkeley's Christmas guest is the multi-talented Stephen Fry. Unlike many guests on Private Passions, he prefers upbeat, cheerful music, and his unusually eclectic tastes range from Mozart, Britten and Wagner to Nina Simone, Herb Alpert and the Tijuana Brass, and The Bonzo Dog Doo Dah Band.
Playlist
Sig: M. Berkeley: The Wakeful Poet (from Music from Chaucer) (pub. OUP)
Beaux-Arts Brass Quintet
BBQ BBQ 003 T.10
Beethoven: Egmont Overture, Op.84
LPO/Sir Adrian Boult
Vanguard SVC 13 T.7
Vivian Stanshall: The Intro and the Outro
The Bonzo Dog Doo Dah Band
Right RIGHT 010 T.3
Mozart: Pa-pa-ge-na (from Die Zauberflöte, Act II)
Walter Berry (Papageno)/Ruth-Margret Pütz (Papagena)/Philharmonia Orchestra/Otto Klemperer
EMI CMS 567388 2 Disc 2 T.17
Jankowski: A Walk in the Black Forest
Herb Alpert and the Tijuana Brass
A&M AML 965 S.2 B.5
Britten: So Abram rose, and clave the wood (from War Requiem, Op.66)
Peter Pears (tenor)/Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau (baritone)/Highgate School Choir/Bach Choir/
London Symphony Chorus and Orchestra/Benjamin Britten
Decca 414 383-2 Disc 1 T.13
Taylor & Lamb: I wish I knew how it would feel to be free
Nina Simone
RCA ND 90376 T.9
Alkan: La chanson de la folle au bord de la mer, Op.31/8
Ronald Smith (piano)
APR APR 7031 Disc 1 T.2
8. Wagner: Isoldes Liebestod (from Tristan und Isolde, Act III, Scene 3)
Kirsten Flagstad (Isolde)/Philharmonia Orchestra/Wilhelm Furtwängler
EMI CDS 747322 8 Disc 4 T.5
