Lord Patten
Sunday 6 November 2005 12:00-13:00 (Radio 3)
Michael Berkeley's guest is Lord Patten, the former Conservative MP who became the last British Governor of Hong Kong and subsequently European Commissioner for foreign relations. An outspoken politician, he has recently published a memoir, Not Quite the Diplomat.
His musical choices include a Handel aria sung by Andreas Scholl, the quartet from Beethoven's Fidelio, Haydn's Cello Concerto in C, and Hoagy Carmichael's Riverboat Shuffle.
Playlist
Sig M. Berkeley: The Wakeful Poet (from Music from Chaucer) (pub. OUP)
Beaux-Arts Brass Quintet
BBQ BBQ 003 T.10
Anon: Veni Creator Spiritus
Coro des monjes del Monasterio Benedictino de Santo Domingo de Silos/
Ismael Fernández de la Cuesta
EMI 5652172 Disc 1 T.5
Handel: Pompe vano di morte + Dove sei (from Rodelinda, Act 1, Scene 6)
Andreas Scholl (counter-tenor)/Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin
Harmonia Mundi HMC 901685 T.15-16
Hoagy Carmichael: Riverboat Shuffle
Hoagy Carmichael/Perry Botkin and his Orchestra (rec.1938)
Timeless CBC 1011 T.19
Haydn: Cello Concerto in C, Hob.VIIb:1 (2nd mvt - Adagio)
Mstislav Rostropovich (cello)/Academy of St Martin-in-the-Fields/Iona Brown
EMI 7493052 T.2
Shield: When William at eve (from Rosina)
Joan Sutherland (soprano)/New Symphony Orchestra of London/Richard Bonynge
Decca 421 881-2 T.5
Beethoven: Mir ist so wunderbar (from Fidelio, Act I)
Ingeborg Hallstein (Marzelline)/Christa Ludwig (Leonore)/Gottlob Frick (Rocco)/
Gerhard Unger (Jaquino)/Philharmonia Orchestra/Otto Klemperer
EMI 5673642 Disc 1 T.6
Cesaria Evora: Petit Pays
Cesaria Evora
Nonesuch 9793792 T.1
Haydn: Benedictus (from Nelson Mass, Hob.XXII:11)
Susan Gritton (soprano)/Pamela Helen Stephen (mezzo)/Mark Padmore (tenor)/
Stephen Varcoe (baritone)/Collegium Musicum 90/Richard Hickox
Chandos CHAN 0640 T.9
