23 January 2005
Sunday 23 January 2005 12:00-13:00 (Radio 3)
Michael Berkeley's guest today is Shena Mackay, who is widely regarded as one of Britain's most stylish prose writers.
Her books, which are regularly shortlisted for major awards, include Dunedin, Heligoland, and The World's Smallest Unicorn and Other Stories. Her musical tastes range from Purcell to Birtwistle, also taking in the Viennese classics, music from early 20th-century Paris, and jazz from Ornette Coleman.
Playlist
M Berkeley
The Wakeful Poet (Music from Chaucer) (pub OUP)
Beaux-Arts Brass Quintet BBQ BBQ 003 T10
Milhaud
Le boeuf sur le toit
Lyon Opera Orchestra/Kent Nagano
ERATO 2292-45820-2 T1
Germaine Tailleferre
Violin Sonata No 1 (first movement)
Renate Eggebrecht (violin), Angela Gassenhuber (piano)
TROUBADISC TROCV01406
Ornette Coleman
Lonely Woman (from Shape of Jazz to Come album)
Ornette Coleman (alto sax), Don Cherry (cornet), Charlie Haden (bass), Billy Higgins (drums)
ATALNTIC 781 339-2 T1
Purcell
Thrice happy lovers, and The Plaint (from The Fairy Queen, Act 5)
Alfred Deller (counter tenor)
HARMONIA MUNDI HMC 90249 T7 & T1
Birtwistle
Tenebrae (from 3 Settings of Celan)
Christine Whittlesey (soprano), Ensemble Intercontemporain/Pierre Boulez
DG 439 910-2 T12
Mabel Mercer
If Love were all (Noel Coward)
ATLANTIC SD 1301 S2 B6
Chopin
Mazurka in A minor, Op 17 No 4
Richard Goode (piano)
NONESUCH 7559-79452-2 T7
Billie Holiday
It's easy to blame the weather
With the Teddy Wilson Orchestra
AFFINITY CDAFS 1019/F T21
Mozart
Eine kleine Nachtmusik (Rondo)
The Orpheus Chamber Orchestra
DG 419 192-2 T4
