Private PassionsFrancis 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  |  |  Private PassionsEpisode and Playlist InformationFull Archive |  |  |  |
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