Stephin Merritt
Sunday 19 November 2006 12:00-13:00 (Radio 3)
Michael Berkeley welcomes another transatlantic guest in London Jazz Week, the composer and songwriter Stephin Merritt, sometimes described as 'the Cole Porter of his generation'.
Merritt has released several albums with his band Magnetic Fields, and recently released the theme music for Lemony Snicket's 'Series of Unfortunate Events' audiobooks with his rock-bubblegum pop band Gothic Archies (of which he is the only member).
Famously laconic in conversation, his personal choice of music includes music played on a toy piano, among a range of other exotic and unusual instruments.
Private Passions playlist 19 November 2006
Sig M Berkeley: The Wakeful Poet (from Music from Chaucer)
(Berkeley/OUP) Beaux Arts Brass Quintet
Stephin Merritt: It's Hard To Be The Emperor
'Showtunes' Nonesuch 79899 - TRACK 6
'Orpheus Zither'
'Es War Einmal' Claves 50815 - TRACK 18
Ela Lamblin: Cosmo Genesis (excerpt)
'Orbitones, Spoon Harps and Belophones,' Ellipsis Arts CD3610 - Track 9
COMPOSER: Ela Lamblin.
Washington Phillips: 'I am Born to Preach the Gospel'
I am Born to Preach the Gospel - Yazoo Records 2003 - Track 1
COMPOSER: Washington Phillips. PUBLISHER: unlisted
Guy Klucevsek: 'Sweet Chinoiserie'
' The Art of the Toy Piano'
Polygram's Point 1997 456345-2 - TRACK 10
Margaret Leng Tan, piano
Robert Johnson: Where the Bee Sucks
Shakespeare's Songs" Harmonia Mundi 195202 - TRACK 6
Alfred Deller Consort (with Desmond Dupre, playing the 'luth').
Robert Johnson (music) William Shakespeare (words)
Victor Herbert: 'Ah Sweet Mysteries of Life'
'Ah, Sweet Mysteries of Life, the songs of Victor Herbert,'
ASV records HMA190202 - TRACK 23
Jeanette MacDonald and Nelson Eddy
Max Matthews: 'Bicycle Built for Two,'
'Computer Music Currents 13'
Wergo 282 033-2 - TRACK 6
Harry Dacre (under original title "Daisy Bell")
Stephen Foster: 'Ah, May the Red Rose Live Always'
'Songs by Stephen Foster,' Nonesuch 979158-2 - TRACK 9
Performer: Jan Degaetani, Leslie Guinn, Gilbert Kalish
Shortbuckle Roark & Family: 'I Truly Understand that you Love Another Man'The Rose Grew Round the Briar - YA200 2030 - TRACK 1
Gabby Pahinui: Hi'ilawe
'The Best of Gabby Pahinui: Volume One'
Hula CDHS-598A/96 - TRACK 1
