Michele Hanson
Sunday 2 September 2007 12:00-13:00 (Radio 3)
Michael Berkeley meets writer Michele Hanson, whose witty newspaper columns have chronicled life with her teenage daughter Treasure, the problems of being middle-aged, and living through the declining years of her formidable mother.
Michele has taught music and plays the piano and cello herself, and her musical choices include Schubert's C String Quintet, a Scarlatti Sonata, a Chopin Mazurka, Weill's September Song and Fats Domino playing Blueberry Hill.
Private Passions playlist 2 September 2007
M. Berkeley: The Wakeful Poet (from Music from Chaucer)
Beaux-Arts Brass Quintet BBQ BBQ 003 T.1
1. Bach: Double Concerto in D minor, BWV 1043 (3rd mvt - Allegro)
Yehudi Menuhin, Christian Ferras (violins), Bath Festival Orchestra EMI 8266532 T.6
Bach: Violin Concertos
2. Scarlatti: Sonata in G, K.424
Fernando Valenti (harpsichord) Westminster WLP 20015 S.2 B.3
Scarlatti: Sonatas for Harpsichord, Vol.6
3. Collegium Terpsichore Archiv APM 14166 S.1 B.1 (exc.)
The High Renaissance
4. Weill: September Song
Walter Huston/Orchestra/Maurice Abravanel Pearl GEMMCDS 9189 Disc 1 T.29
Kurt Weill from Berlin to Broadway
5. Schubert: Quintet in C, D.956 (2nd mvt - Adagio)
Vegh Quartet/Pablo Casals (cello) Philips 420 077-2 T.2
Pablo Casals - Schubert and Beethoven
6. Lewis, Stock & Rose: Blueberry Hill
Fats Domino Liberty CDP 7902942 T.1
The Best of Fats Domino
7. Handel: His yoke is easy (from Messiah)
LSO and Chorus/Sir Colin Davis Philips 438 356-2 Disc 1 T.17
Handel: Messiah
8. Purcell: When I am laid in Earth + With drooping wings (from Dido and Aeneas)
Mary Thomas (Dido)/Oriana Concert Choir and Orchestra/Alfred Deller
Vanguard ATMCD 1521 Disc 2 T.40-41
Purcell: The Masque of Diocletian/Dido and Aeneas
9. Chopin: Mazurka in F sharp minor, Op.6/1
Artur Rubinstein (piano) RCA RD 85171 Disc 1 T.1
Chopin: Mazurkas
