31 July 2005
Sunday 31 July 2005 12:00-13:00 (Radio 3)
Michael Berkeley's guest is actress Miranda Richardson, famous for such diverse roles as Ruth Ellis in the film Dance with a Stranger, Mrs Tweedy in Chicken Run, Queenie in Blackadder II, and Rita Skeeter in Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire.
Her musical choices range from Roy Bailey singing the traditional folk song Bitter Withy, to the Sanctus from Britten's War Requiem, and the opening of Debussy's opera Pelleas et Melisande.
Playlist
Sig M. Berkeley: The Wakeful Poet (from Music from Chaucer) (pub. OUP)
Beaux-Arts Brass Quintet
BBQ BBQ 003 T.10
Arnold: English Dance No.1 - Andantino (from English Dances Set 1, Op.27)
LPO/Malcolm Arnold (album: Malcolm Arnold Dances)
Lyrita SRCD 201 T.1
Trad: Bitter Withy
Roy Bailey (vocal)/John Kirkpatrick (concertina)
Trailer LER 3021 S.1 B.2
Britten: Sanctus (from War Requiem, Op.66)
Galina Vishnevskaya (soprano)/Bach Choir/London Symphony Chorus and Orchestra/
Benjamin Britten (album: War Requiem)
Decca 424 383-2 Disc 2 T.1
Trad: My Lord what a morning
Archie Shepp (sax)/Horace Parlan (piano)
Steeplechase SCCD 31079 T.6
Michael Ondaatje: Sweet like a crow
Michael Ondaatje (album: Previous Canoes)
Coach House CH/MG TB005 S.2 B.3
Morales: Parce mihi Domine (opening)
Jan Garbarek (saxophone)/Hilliard Ensemble (album: Officium)
ECM 445 369-2 T.1 (exc.)
Casucci & Caesar/Williams & Graham: Just a Gigolo/I ain't got nobody
Louis Prima
Capitol 831775 2 T.19
Debussy: Pelléas et Mélisande (opening of Act I)
José van Dam (Golaud)/Maria Ewing (Mélisande)/VPO/Claudio Abbado
DG 435 344-2 Disc 1 T.1-2 (exc.)
Dead can Dance: How fortunate the man with none (opening)
Dead can Dance
Four Ad CAD 3013 CD T.11 (exc.)
Bach: Gigue (from Suite No.1 in G, BWV 1007)
Yo-Yo Ma (cello)
CBS M2K 37867 Disc 1 T.6
