Audra McDonald
Sunday 18 March 2007 12:00-13:00 (Radio 3)
Michael Berkeley meets American soprano Audra McDonald, star of Broadway musicals and an acclaimed actress as well as a classically trained singer who has performed with all the great US orchestras under conductors such as Simon Rattle and Michael Tilson Thomas, and has appeared several times at the BBC Proms.
Her musical choices range from a Chopin ballade and Poulenc's Cello Sonata to a tango by Astor Piazzolla and Shaker Loops by John Adams.
Private Passions playlist 18 March 2007
M Berkeley: The Wakeful Poet (from Music from Chaucer)
(Berkeley/OUP)
Beaux Arts Brass Quintet
Audra McDonald : I Wish I Were in Love Again from Babes in Arms
'Happy Songs' Nonesuch 7559 79645-2 - Track 5 excerpt
(Richard Rogers/Lorenz Hart arr Lee Musiker after arr for Judy Garland
by Eadie Griffith and Rack Godwin
Puccini: 'Senza Mama' from 'Suor Angelica' >4'52
'IL TRITTICO/SUOR ANGELICA CBS M3K79312: CD2/TRACK 1
Renata Scotto/Philharmonia Orchestra/Lorin Maazel
Chopin: Ballade no 1 in G Minor op23
'Chopin Four Ballades and Four Scherzos'
HYPERION CDA67456 - TRACK 1
Stephen Hough, piano
Astor Piazzolla: Concierto para Quinteto 'Tango: Zero Hour' PANGAEA 4611562 - TRACK 3 EXCERPT
Astor Piazzolla (bandoneon), Fernando Suarez Paz (violin)
Pablo Ziegler (piano), Horacio Malvicino, Sr. (guitar), Hector Console (bass)
Poulenc: 'Cavatine': 2nd Mvt from 'Sonata for Cello and Piano'
'Works by Carter, Miaskovsky, Poulenc'
LOWRI LOWRI2002 - TRACK 9
Lowri Blake (cello), Iwan Llewelyn Jones (piano)
John Adams - "Hymning Slews' Part II from 'Shaker Loops'
The John Adams Earbox 7559 794 532. CD1 - track 5
(CD 1 number: 7559 793 602)
Orchestra of St Lukes/John Adams
Judy Garland and Barbara Streisand: Happy Days/Get Happy
(From 'The Judy Garland Show' CBS-TV October 6 1963)
'Just for the Record' Columbia 4716402 - TRACK 7
