Jeanette Winterson
Sunday 14 October 2007 12:00-13:00 (Radio 3)
Michael Berkeley talks to award-winning novelist Jeanette Winterson, whose books include Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit, Written on the Body, The Passion, Lighthousekeeping and The Stone Gods.
She is passionate about music, especially the human voice, and her choices include Bjork, Maria Callas, Sarah Connolly and Ian Bostridge as well as cellist Natalie Clein with a new recording of Elgar's Cello Concerto.
Private Passions playlist 14 October 2007
M BerkeleyThe Wakeful Poet (Music from Chaucer) (pub OUP)
Beaux-Arts Brass Quintet
BBQ BBQ 003 T10
TavenerPrayer of the Heart
Bjork (vocal), Brodsky Quartet
John Tavener NAXOS 8558152-2 CD2 T2
Thomas AdesCardiac Arrest (Madness, arr Thomas Ades)?
Composers' Ensemble/Thomas Ades
Thomas Ades EMI 57610 T10
PucciniVissi d'arte (Tosca Act 1)
Maria Callas?(Tosca), Orchestra of La Scala, Milan/Victor de Sabata
Maria Callas EMI CDC 56411-2 T7
Elgar Cello Concerto in E minor, Op 85 (1st movement)
Natalie Clein (cello), RLPO/Vernon Handley
Natalie Clein EMI CD 40923 T1-2
Britten Since she whom I lov'd hath payd her last debt (from The Holy Sonnets of John Donne)
Ian Bostridge?(tenor), Graham Johnson (piano)
Britten HYPERION CDA 66823 T24
Handel Verdi prati (from Alcina)
Sarah Connolly (Ruggiero), The Symphony of Harmony and Invention/Harry Christophers
Heroes and Heroines CORO COR16025 T10
Gluck What is life to me without thee?
Kathleen Ferrier (contralto), LSO/Malcolm Sargent
Kathleen Ferrier LIVING ERA CD AJA 5536 T1
Wagner Tristan und Isolde (Act 2, scene 2)
Birgit Nilsson (Isolde), Wolfgang Windgassen (Tristan), Christa Ludwig (Brangane), Byreuth Festival Orchestra/Karl Bohm
Tristan und Isolde DG 449 772-2 CD2 T8
