Annalena McAfee
Sunday 25 March 2007 12:00-13:00 (Radio 3)
Michael Berkeley's guest today is writer and journalist Annalena McAfee.
Her Irish background informs some of her choices, with traditional Irish music rubbing shoulders with music from Catalonia and Tibet, alongside works by Mahler, Janacek, CPE Bach and Judith Weir.
Private Passions playlist 25 March 2007
M BerkeleyThe Wakeful Poet (Music from Chaucer) (pub OUP)
Beaux-Arts Brass Quintet
BBQ BBQ 003 T10
Sean O'Riada and Ceoltoiri Cuillann Marcshlua Ui Neill (from the album Riada Sa Gaiety)
GAEL LINN 1118491 S1 B1
Federic Mompou Aureana Do Sil (from Ramon Cabanillas Na Musica)
Joaquin Pixan (tenor), Alejandro Zabala (piano)
SGAE M-24749-2001 T3
Father/Son vocal with Erhu (from the album Streets Of Lhasa)
SUBLIME FREQUENCIES CD SF 016 T4
Judith Weir Arise! Arise! (from Judith Weir Arise! Arise!)
The Schubert Ensemble
NMC NMCD090 T8
Mahler Fourth Movement Urlicht (from Symphony No. 2 in C minor Resurrection)
Maureen Forrester (contralto), New York PO/Bruno Walter
SONY SM2K 64447 CD2 T3 [quick out]
Mike Dekle No Trash in My Trailer (from the album Sketches)
PARLAY RECORDS 003 T8
Janacek The barn owl has not flown away (from On an Overgrown Path Series I) (from On an Overgrown Path)
Leif Ove Andsnes (piano)
VIRGIN CLASSICS VC7596392 T16
Tommy McGoldrick Sliabh geal gCua (from Irish Folk from the shores of Lough Neagh)
TRAAD 05L AM to bring
CPE Bach Freye Fantasie (from the album Elegies)
Alexei Lubimov (piano)
ECM 4618122 T2