William Gaskill
Sunday 2 April 2006 12:00-13:00 (Radio 3)
Michael Berkeley meets one of Britain's most distinguished and influential theatre directors. William Gaskill was a seminal figure in the artistic development of the Royal Court Theatre, before becoming associate director to Laurence Olivier at the National Theatre and a founder-director of the Joint Stock Theatre Company.
He now teaches at RADA, and has directed new and classic plays and operas all over the world. His musical choices include works by Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven, Berlioz, Janacek, Weill and Stravinsky.
Playlist
M. Berkeley: The Wakeful Poet (from Music from Chaucer) (pub. OUP)
Beaux-Arts Brass Quintet
BBQ BBQ 003 T.10
Mozart: Piano Concerto in D minor, K.466 (opening of 2nd mvt - Romance)
Clifford Curzon (piano)/ECO/Benjamin Britten
Decca 468 491-2 Disc 1 T.2 (exc.)
Berlioz: Villanelle (from Les Nuits d'été, Op.7)
Janet Baker (mezzo)/New Philharmonia Orchestra/Sir John Barbirolli
EMI 7695442 T.1
Ben Jonson: The triumph
Sir John Gielgud
Pearl GEMMCD 9144 T.6
Weill: Seeräuberjenny (from Die Dreigroschenoper)
Lotte Lenya (Jenny)/Lewis Ruth Band/Theo Mackeben
Telefunken 0927 43663 2 T.2
Stravinsky: Les Noces (2nd tableau)
Libuše Domanínská (soprano)/Marie Mrázová (mezzo)/Ivo Žídek (tenor)/Dalibor Jedlicka (bass)/Zdenek Kožina, Jan Marcol, Peter Toperczer, Arnošt Wilde (pianos)/Czech Philharmonic Chorus/
Czech PO percussion section/Karel Ancerl
Supraphon 11 1946-2 T.2
Beethoven: Quartet in B flat, Op.130 (4th mvt - Alla danza tedesca)
Alban Berg Quartet
EMI 747136 T.4
Broonzy: Willie Mae
Big Bill Broonzy
BGO BGOCD 91 T.8
Janácek: Quartet No.1 - "Kreutzer Sonata" (1st mvt - Adagio. Con moto)
Smetana Quartet
Supraphon SU 0071-2 T.1
Haydn: Sonata in D, Hob.XVI/42 (1st mvt - Andante con espressione)
Alfred Brendel (piano)
Philips 416 643-2 Disc 2 T.7
