Rebecca Front
Sunday 5 February 2006 12:00-13:00 (Radio 3)
Michael Berkeley meets Rebecca Front, who plays the downtrodden wife Cath in Julia Davis' black comedy Nighty Night. Her musical choices include concertos by Mozart and Gershwin; symphonies by Brahms and Mahler, and vocal music by Purcell and Britten.
Playlist
Sig M Berkeley: The Wakeful Poet (from Music from Chaucer)
(Berkeley/OUP)
Beaux Arts Brass Quintet
Benjamin Britten: 'This Little Babe' from 'Ceremony of Carols'
NAXOS 8553183 - TRACK 28
New London Children's Choir/Ronald Corp
Britten/Boosey and Hawkes
Mozart: 2nd movement from Concerto for flute, harp and orchestra K299
ERATO 4509917242 - TRACK 8
Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra/Ton Koopman
Brahms: 3rd movement from Symphony no 3 in F major
HANSSLER CLASSIC CD98187 - TRACK 3
Academy of St Martin in the Fields/Sir Neville Marriner
H Purcell: 'Dido's lament' from 'Dido & Aeneas'
England my England Soundtrack ERATO 0630107002 - TRACK 11
Susan Graham, mezzo-soprano;
English Baroque Soloists/John Eliot Gardiner
Gershwin: 3rd Mvt from Piano Concerto in F major
SONY CLASSICAL MPK47681 - TRACK 9
Oscar Levant, piano;
Philharmonic Symphony Orchestra of New York/André Kostelanetz
(Recorded 1942)
Mahler: 2nd Mvt from Symphony no 2 'Resurrection'
PHILIPS 4208242 - TRACK 2
Boston Symphony Orchestra/Seiji Ozawa
