16 January 2005
Sunday 16 January 2005 12:00-13:00 (Radio 3)
Michael Berkeley talks to the journalist and broadcaster Jon Snow, who has recently published an autobiography, Shooting History, based on his experiences as a foreign correspondent.
He started off as a Winchester Cathedral chorister, and many of his choices reflect his early musical training, with sacred works by Bach, Rossini, Mozart, Beethoven and Herbert Howells, as well as music by Poulenc, Prokofiev and Schumann.
Playlist
Sig M. Berkeley: The Wakeful Poet (from Music from Chaucer) (pub. OUP)
Beaux-Arts Brass Quintet
BBQ BBQ 003 T.10
Schumann: Études Symphoniques, Op.13 (Theme and Variation 1)
Rudolf Firkušný (piano)
EMI CDM 56608 2 T.19-20
Howells: Magnificat (Collegium Regale)
Choir of King's College, Cambridge/Peter Barley (organ)/Stephen Cleobury
Argo 430 205-2 T.13
Beethoven: Kyrie (from Missa Solemnis, Op.123)
Gundula Janowitz (soprano)/Christa Ludwig (mezzo)/Fritz Wunderlich (tenor)/Walter Berry (bass)/
Wiener Singverein/Berlin PO/Herbert von Karajan
DG 423 913-2 Disc 1 T.1
Mozart: Quoniam (from Mass in C minor, K.427)
Sylvia McNair, Diana Montague (sopranos)/Anthony Rolfe Johnson (tenor)/
English Baroque Soloists/Sir John Eliot Gardiner
Philips 420 210-2 T.7
Prokofiev: The Philosophers (from Cantata for the 20th Anniversary of the October Revolution)
Philharmonia Chorus and Orchestra/Neeme Järvi
Chandos CHAN 9095 T.2
Bach: Herr, unser Herrscher, dessen Ruhn (from St John Passion)
Monteverdi Choir/English Baroque Soloists/Sir John Eliot Gardiner
Archiv 427 319-2 T.1 (exc.)
Poulenc: Allegro giocoso (from Organ Concerto)
Maurice Duruflé (organ)/French National Radio Orchestra/Georges Prêtre
EMI CDC 747723 2 T.1 (exc.)
Rossini: Kyrie (from Petite Messe Solennelle)
Raymond Allesandrini (piano)/Emmanuel Mandrin (harmonium)/Ensemble Vocal Michel Piquemal/
Michel Piquemal
Accord 476 060-2 Disc 1 T.1
Purcell arr. Rees-Williams: When I am laid in earth
David Rees-Williams Trio
Artist's Private recording T.9
