Joyce Carol Oates
Sunday 28 October 2007 12:00-13:00 (Radio 3)
Michael Berkeley talks to American writer Joyce Carol Oates, a distinguished contemporary novelist and professor at Princeton University. Her latest novel The Gravedigger's Daughter deals with some of her favourite themes - race, immigration and social mobility.
Two pieces of music that feature in the book - Beethoven's Appassionata Sonata and a Faure cello sonata - are among her choices, which also include Claudio Arrau playing Chopin, Mozart's Requiem and Hoagy Carmichael's Stardust.
Private Passions playlist 28 October 2007
M BerkeleyThe Wakeful Poet (Music from Chaucer) (pub OUP)
Beaux-Arts Brass Quintet
BBQ BBQ 003 T10
Beethoven Piano Sonata in F minor, Op 57 (The Appassionata) (finale)
Artur Schnabel (piano)
Schnabel NAXOS 8.110761 T5
Faure Cello Sonata No 2 in G minor, Op 117 (2nd movement, Andante)
Paul Tortelier (cello), Eric Heidsieck (piano)
Faure EMI 336126-2 CD2 T5
Thelonius Monk 'Round About Midnight
Thelonius Monk (piano)
The Best of Thelonius Monk RIVERSIDE RCD-5706-2 T1
Mozart Introit and Kyrie (from the Requiem, K626)
Irmgard Seefried (soprano), Jennie Tourel (mezzo-soprano), Leopold Simoneau (tenor), William Warfield (bass), The Westminster Choir, NYPO/Bruno Walter
Mozart Requiem CBS MPK 45556 T1
Chopin Prelude in B flat, Op 28 No 21
Claudio Arrau (piano)
Chopin PHILIPS 468 391-2 CD1 T21
Hoagy Carmichael Stardust
Hoagy Carmichael (vocal and piano)
Stardust and Much More RCA 8333-2 T1
