12 December 2004
Sunday 12 December 2004 12:00-13:00 (Radio 3)
Michael Berkeley's guest today is Robert McCrum, literary editor of The Observer, and an author himself. His latest book, a biography of PG Wodehouse, has attracted much critical praise.
McCrum is particularly interested in American musicals, and his choices include songs by Jerome Kern, Cole Porter, Gershwin and Frank Loesser, as well as music by Britten, Rossini, Milhaud and Colin Matthews.
Playlist
M Berkeley
The Wakeful Poet (Music from Chaucer) (pub OUP)
Beaux-Arts Brass Quintet BBQ BBQ 003 T10
1.
Britten
Elegy (O rose, thou art sick (Blake)) (from Serenade for tenor, horn & strings)
Peter Pears (tenor), Dennis Brain (horn), Boyd Neel String Orchestra/Benjamin Britten
DECCA 425 996-2 T4 04 17
2.
Gilbert & Sullivan
When all night long (The Nightmare Song) (Iolanthe Act 2)
John Reed (Lord Chancellor), New Symphony Orchestra of London/Isidore Duncan
DECCA 414 145-2 CD2 T7 03 32
3.
Jerome Kern
Bill from Showboat (lyric by PG Wodehouse)
Carol Bruce (Julie), Orchestra conducted by Edwin McArthur
SONY BROADWAY SK 53330 T9 04 55
4.
Milhaud
Le boeuf sur le toit, Op 58
Lyon Opera Orchestra/Kent Nagano
ERATO 2292 45820-2 T1 04 50
5.
Cole Porter
Anything Goes (from Anything Goes)
Ella Fitzgerald, Orchestra/Buddy Bregman (sic)
VERVE 821 989-2 T2 03 20
6.
Rossini
Kyrie (from the Petite Messe Solonnelle)
Katia and Marielle Labèque (pianos), David Briggs (harmonium), Choir of King's College, Cambridge/Stephen Cleobury
EMI CDC 747482-2 CD1 T1 02 43
7.
Gershwin
Somebody Loves Me (from George White's Scandals of 1924)
Kiri Te Kanawa, The New Princess Theater Orchestra/John McGlinn
EMI CDC 747454-2 T1 02 59
8.
Colin Matthews
Fourth Sonata (Part 1)
London Sinfonietta/Oliver Knussen
DECCA 474 316-2 T1 04 50
9.
Frank Loesser
Adelaide's Lament (from Guys and Dolls)
Vivian Blaine (from original Broadway cast recording)
MCA MCAD 10301 T5 03 17
10.
Gillian Welch
Honey Now (from the album Hell Among the Yearlings)
ALMCD60 T7
