7 August 2005 Ruth Lea
Sunday 7 August 2005 12:00-13:00 (Radio 3)
Michael Berkeley talks to the economist Ruth Lea, director of the Centre for Policy Studies. Her musical passions range from a lute song by Dowland to Brahms's German Requiem, and Britten's Peter Grimes to Duke Bluebeard's Castle by Bartok.
Playlist
M Berkeley The Wakeful Poet (Music from Chaucer) (pub OUP)
Beaux-Arts Brass Quintet BBQ BBQ 003 T10
Dowland Flow, my tears
Alfred Deller (counter tenor), Desmond Dupre (lute)
VANGUARD 08507171 T14
JS Bach Erbarme, dich, mein Gott (from the St Matthew Passion , Part 2)
Janet Baker (mezzo soprano), Gerhart Hetzel (violin), Munich Bach Orchestra/Karl Richter
ARCHIV 427 704-2 CD2 T18
Mozart March and chorus (Die Zauberflöte Act 2, scene 8, final part)
Ernst Haefliger (Tamino) Maria Stader (Pamina), RIAS Chamber Choir and Orchestra/Ferenc Fricsay
DG 459 497-2 CD2 T26
Brahms Opening of Denn alles Fleisch, es ist wie Gras (from the German Requiem)
Ambrosian Singers, RPO/Andre Previn
APEX 8573 89081-2 T2
Tchaikovsky Symphony no. 6 (2nd movement (in 5/4))
Berlin PO/Herbert Von Karajan
LONDON 289 460 609-2 T2
R Strauss Frühling (No 1 from the Four Last Songs)
Elisabeth Schwarzkopf (soprano), Philharmonia Orchestra/Otto Ackermann
EMI CDH 5674952 T1
Vaughan Williams Antiphon (No 5 from the Mystical Songs )
Corydon Singers, ECO/Matthew Best
HYPERION CDA66420 T6
Bartok Door Five (from Duke Bluebeard's Castle )
Christa Ludwig (Judith), Walter Berry (Bluebeard), LSO/Istvan Kertesz
DECCA 414 167-2 T5-6
Britten The Storm (No 4 from Four Sea Interludes from Peter Grimes )
LSO/Andre Previn
EMI CDM 764736-2 T16
