22 May 2005
Sunday 22 May 2005 12:00-13:00 (Radio 3)
Michael Berkeley talks to the Swedish jazz pianist Esbjorn Svensson, who formed his own trio with drummer Magnus Ostrom and bassist Dan Berglund. The trio tours widely and has released several award-winning albums, including Strange Place for Snow, Seven Days of Falling, and most recently, Viaticum.
Svensson's musical tastes are eclectic, ranging from a Bach cello suite and Bartok's Second Piano Concerto to Arvo Parts, Cantus in memory of Benjamin Britten and the Charlie Haden Quartet's Wayfaring Stranger.
Playlist
SIG M BERKELEY: THE WAKEFUL POET (from Music from Chaucer)
Beaux Arts Brass Quintet
Bela Bartok - Piano Concerto no 2 - second movement
Andras Schiff/Budapest Festival Orchestra, cond. Ivan Fischer
TELDEC 0630131582 - TRACK 5
EST - A Picture of Doris Travelling with Boris
'VIATICUM' ACT 90152 - TRACK 8
J S Bach - Cello Suite no 2 in D minor - Prelude
Pablo Casals
PEARL GEMS0045 - CD1 TRACK 15
Radka toneff and Steve Dobrogosz: Nature Boy
'Fairytales'
Odin nj4003-2 - TRACK 6
Avo Pärt - Cantus in Memory of Benjamin Britten
Staatsorchester Stuttgart/Dennis Russell Davies
ECM 8177642 - TRACK 2
Il Postino: eme from the film soundtrack 'Il Postino'
(ORCHESTRA SINFONIETTA DI ROMA/LUIS BACALOV
Miramax Records/Hollywood - 1620292 - TRACK 13
Charlie Haden Quartet West: Wayfaring Stranger
The art of the song
Verve 314 547 403-2 - TRACK 13
