Bryan Appleyard
Sunday 27 January 2008 12:00-13:00 (Radio 3)
Michael Berkeley meets Bryan Appleyard, feature writer, commentator, reviewer and columnist for several newspapers and magazines, including The Sunday Times and The New Statesman. He is also a writer on cultural and social issues; one of his recent books is entitled How to Live Forever or Die Trying. His musical passions range from sacred music by Tallis and Bach to Bob Dylan, but his particular love is the classical string quartet.
Private Passions playlist 27 January 2008
M BerkeleyThe Wakeful Poet (Music from Chaucer) (pub OUP)
Beaux-Arts Brass Quintet
BBQ BBQ 003 T10
1) Mozart Symphony No 41 'Jupiter' (4th movement, Molto allegro)
Berlin PO/Herbert von Karajan
Mozart DG 429 668-2 CD3 T8
2) Bob Dylan The Lonesome Death of Hattie Carroll
The Times they are a' Changin' COLUMBIA CD32021 T9
3) Thomas TallisSalvator Mundi
Winchester Cathedral Choir/David Hill
Thomas Tallis HYPERION CDA 66300 T5
4) Gram Parsons She
GP REPRISE 7599 26108-2 T5
5) Schubert String Quartet in D Minor (Death and the Maiden) (3rd movement, Scherzo)
Quartetto Italiano
PHILIPS 446 163-2 CD1 T3
6) SchubertLitanei auf das Fest Allerseelen , D343
Bryn Terfel (baritone) and Malcolm Martineau (piano)
Schubert DG 445 294-2 T2
7) Beethoven Quartet in B flat, Op 130 (4th movement, Alla danza tedesca)
Julliard String Quartet
Beethoven SONY SB3K89897 CD2 T4
8) Chopin Nocturne in C Minor (1837)
Vladimir Ashkenazy (piano)
DECCA 414 564-2 CD2 T9
9) Bach Dona Nobis Pacem (Mass in B minor)
Collegium Musicum 90/Richard Hickox
Mass in B minor CHANDOS CHAN 0533/4 CD2 T15
