David Farr
Sunday 8 October 2006 12:00-13:00 (Radio 3)
Michael Berkeley's guest is David Farr, artistic director of the Lyric Theatre, Hammersmith. His choices range from early Portuguese, Mexican, Romanian and klezmer music to Bach and Beethoven.
Private Passions playlist 8 October
M Berkeley The Wakeful Poet (Music from Chaucer) (pub OUP)
Beaux-Arts Brass Quintet
BBQ BBQ 003 T10
Estevao Lopes Morago Jesu Redemptor (from the album Voces Angelicae)
Pro Cantione Antiqua/Mark Brown
TELDEC 2460052 T1
Charles Mingus Ysabel's Table Dance (opening) (from the album New Tijuana Moods)
BLUEBIRD ND85644 T2
Bessie Smith Send Me to the 'lectric Chair (Brooks) (from the album Down Hearted Blues)
GOLDEN OPTION GO3811 T7
Silvestre Revueltas Cancion de Cuna (Berceuse) (from the album Mexican Music)
Irma Gonzales (mezzo soprano), Mexican PO/Fernando Lozano
FORLANE UCD 16688 CD2 T11
Monterverdi Versiculus and Responsorium (from Vespro della Beata Vergine)
Taverner Choir and Players/Andrew Parrott
EMI CDS7470788 CD1 T1-2 [T2 ends 01 46]
Taraf de Haidouks Rind de Hore (from the album Musique des Tziganes de Roumanie)
CRAMMED SICS CRAW2 T1
Bach Erbarme dich mein Gott (from the St Matthew Passion)
Christa Ludwig (mezzo soprano), Philharmonia Orchestra/Otto Klemperer
EP: COLUMBIA SEL 1707 S1
Beethoven String Quartet in A minor, Op 132 (Finale: Allegro appassionato) (from the album Beethoven String Quartets Vol 8)
The Lindsays
ASV CDCDA1118 T5
Abe Schwartz's Orchestra Rusishe Sher (from the album Klezmer Music 1910-1942)
Global Village Music CD104 T1
John Coltrane Alabama (from the album In a Soulful Mood)
MUSIC CLUB MCCD170 T10