Mark Lawson
Sunday 9 October 2005 12:00-13:00 (Radio 3)
Michael Berkeley talks to the journalist and broadcaster Mark Lawson, presenter of Radio 4's Front Row. He has always had a passion for American culture, and his musical choices include works by Stephen Sondheim, Morton Feldman, John Adams and Aaron Copland, as well as music by Bach, Haydn, Schumann and Messiaen.
Playlist
Sig M. Berkeley: The Wakeful Poet (from Music from Chaucer ) (pub. OUP)
Beaux-Arts Brass Quintet
BBQ BBQ 003 T.10
Adams : News has a kind of mystery (from Nixon in China , Act I, Scene 1 )
James Maddalena (Richard Nixon)/Sanford Sylvan (Chou En-lai)/Orchestra of St Luke's/
Edo de Waart
Nonesuch 979 193-2 T.6
Feldman: snow falls (from Three Voices )
Joan La Barbara (voice)
New Albion NA 018 CD T.8
Sondheim: Ah! but underneath (from Follies )
Diana Rigg/Chorus & Orchestra/Martin Koch (1987 London production)
First Night Encore CD 3 Disc 2 T.10 (exc.)
Haydn: Quartet in F minor, Op.20/5 (3 rd mvt - Adagio)
Emerson Quartet
DG 471 327-2 Disc 1 T.3
Pergolesi: O quam tristis (from Stabat Mater )
Barbara Bonney (soprano)/Andreas Scholl (counter-tenor)/Les Talens Lyriques/Christophe Rousset
Decca 466 134-2 T.3
Messiaen: Plusieurs Oiseaux des arbres de Vie (from Éclairs sur L'Au-delà... )
Berlin PO/Sir Simon Rattle
EMI 557788 2 T.9
Bach: Und von der sechsten Stunde + Wenn ich einmal soll scheiden (from St Matthew Passion )
Anthony Rolfe Johnson (Evangelist)/Andreas Schmidt (Jesus)/Monteverdi Choir/
London Oratory Junior Chorus/English Baroque Soloists/Sir John Eliot Gardiner
Archiv 427 648-2 Disc 3 T. 9-10
Schumann: Cello Concerto in A minor, Op.129 (opening of 1 st mvt - Nicht zu schnell)
Steven Isserlis (cello)/Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie/Christoph Eschenbach
RCA 09026 68800 2 T.1 (exc.)
Copland: The Dodger (from Old American Songs, Set I )
William Warfield (baritone)/Columbia SO/Aaron Copland
CBS MK 42430 T.11
