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Private Passions

Francis Wheen

Sunday 27 June 2004 12:00-13:00 (Radio 3)

Today Michael Berkeley talks to the journalist and writer Francis Wheen, whose books include biographies of Karl Marx and Tom Driberg, and a fascinating study of the recent rise in superstition, relativism and emotional hysteria, How Mumbo-Jumbo Conquered the World. His choices include music by Bach, Purcell, Frescobaldi, Gilbert and Sullivan, and Miles Davis.

Duration:

1 hour

Playlist

M Berkeley
The Wakeful Poet (Music from Chaucer)
Beaux-Arts Brass Quintet BBQ BBQ 003 T10 

Sullivan
"When all night long a chap remains" (Act II, no 1 Iolanthe)
John Rath (Private Willis) - bass/D'Oyly Carte Orchestra/John Pryce-Jones (cond)
THAT'S ENTERTAINMENT CDTER2 1188B CD2 tk 1
2 CD set THAT'S ENTERTAINMENT CDTER2 1188 

Mozart
"Dalla sua pace" (Act I Don Giovanni)
Gosta Winbergh (Don Ottavio) - tenor/Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra/
Herbert von Karajan (cond)
DG 419 180 2 CD1 tk 26
3 CD set DG 419 179 2

Bach Goldberg Variations (theme and 1st variation)
Andras Schiff (piano)
ECM 472 185 2 5.25

Frescobaldi
Toccata Chromaticha 'Per l'Elevatione'
Laurence Cummings (organ)
COLLINS CLASSICS 13602 tk 3

Rodrigo/Davis/Evans
Adagio from Concerto de Aranjuez (Sketches of Spain )
Miles Davis/Orchestra conducted by Gil Evans 
CBS 460604 2 tk 1

Andrew Poppy
"Do you doubt?" (Ophelia)
Margaret Cameron (mezzo-soprano)/ Andrew Poppy keyboards/percussion/samples)
IMPETUS IMPCD 19426 tk 1

Purcell
"When I am laid in earth" (Dido and Aeneas)
Catherine Bott (soprano)/ Academy of Ancient Music/Christopher Hogwood (dir)
DECCA 467 454 2 tk 33

Richard Thompson
Dundee Hornpipe/Poppy-Leaf Hornpipe (trad)
(album Strict Tempo )
Richard Thompson (all instruments)
CARTHAGE CGLP 4409 side 1 band 5




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