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Private Passions

26 September 2004

Sunday 26 September 2004 12:00-13:00 (Radio 3)

Michael Berkeley's guest today is the journalist and broadcaster Sir Mark Tully, formerly the BBC's chief correspondent in India, where he now lives. He has written and broadcast widely on a variety of subjects, including the life of Jesus, and his musical tastes range from sacred vocal music by Bruckner and John Tavener to Indian classical music and Benny Goodman.

Duration:

1 hour

Playlist

M Berkeley
The Wakeful Poet (Music from Chaucer)
Beaux-Arts Brass Quintet
BBQ BBQ 003 T10

1. Schubert
Symphony No 8 in B minor (opening of the 1st movement, Allegro moderato)
Bamberg SO/Horst Stein
EURODISC 610 599 CD4 T3

2. John Tavener
Song for Athene
Westminster Abbey Choir/Martin Neary
SONY CLASSICAL SK 66613 T8

3. Hymn
O come, O come, Emmanuel
The Choir of Old St Paul’s Church/Leslie Shankland
OSP DCD 43701 T2

4. Percy Grainger
Irish Tune from County Derry (“Danny Boy”)
The Grimethorpe Colliery Band/John Anderson
RCA 09026687515 T12

5. Ustad Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan
Allah Hoo
STAR CD SR 056 T1

6. Ustad Bismillah Khan (Shehnai) and Prof V G Joy (violin)
Raga: Bahar
HMV ASD 2312 S2 B1

7. Bruckner
Te Deum (First section, Allegro)
Maria Stader (soprano), Sieglinde Wagner (contralto), Ernst Haefliger (tenor), Peter Lagger (bass), Berlin PO/ Eugen Jochum
DEUTSCHE GRAMMOPHON 457 743-2 T1

8. Alan Hovhaness
Majnun Symphony (Part One: Majnun)
Sidney Sax (violin), John Wilbraham (trumpet), National Philharmonic Orchestra of London/Alan Hovhaness
CRYSTAL CD 803 T1





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