10 July 2005
Sunday 10 July 2005 12:00-13:00 (Radio 3)
Michael Berkeley talks to the mountaineer Stephen Venables, the first Briton to climb Everest without oxygen. His musical choices range widely, from a harpsichord piece by Rameau and Bach's B m Mass, through music by Mozart, Schumann, Brahms and Elgar to Weill's Surabaya Johnny and one of Dudley Moore's brilliant piano improvisations.
Playlist
M Berkeley
The Wakeful Poet (Music from Chaucer) (pub OUP)
Beaux-Arts Brass Quintet
BBQ BBQ 003 T10
READING:
Stephen Venables Island at the edge of the world (Warner Books) p148
Bach
Et expecto resurrectionem (from the Credo, Mass in B minor)
The Monteverdi Choir and English Baroque Soloists/John Eliot Gardiner
ARCHIV 469 778-2 CD9 T9
Elgar
Symphony No 1 in A flat, Op 55 (from the Finale)
LPO/Georg Solti
DECCA 443 856-2 T5
Brecht/Weill
Surabaya Jonny (from Happy End)
Jessica Walker (vocals), Stephen Gutman (piano)
AVID RECORDS JWCD001 T15
Dudley Moore
And the same to you and Colonel Bogey (from Beyond the Fringe)
EMI CDECC1 CD2 T3
Mozart
Deh vieni (from The Marriage of Figaro, Act 4)
Hilde Gueden (Susanna), VPO/Erich Kleiber
DECCA 466 372-2 T5
Rameau
Les Tendres Plaintes (from the Suite in D minor, from the Pièces de Clavecin)
Sophie Yates (harpsichord)
CHANDOS CHAN 0659 T21
Schumann
Die alten, bösen Lieder (last song from Dichterliebe, Op 48)
Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau (baritone), Christoph Eschenbach (piano)
DG 474 466-2 T28
Brahms
Trio in E flat for violin, horn and piano, Op 40 (Scherzo)
Itzhak Perlman (violin), Barry Tuckwell (horn), Vladimir Ashkenazy (piano)
DECCA 452 887-2 T6
Richard Strauss
Elektra (The final dance)
Birgit Nilsson (Elektra), VPO/Georg Solti
DECCA 458 700-2 CD2 T17
Fauré
Cantique de Jean Racine
Girls and Men of Bath Abbey
PRIORY PRCD 851 T2
