Linda Colley
Sunday 1 July 2007 12:00-13:00 (Radio 3)
Michael Berkeley talks to historian Linda Colley, who is currently teaching at Princeton University.
Her books include a study of the Tory party in the early 18th century, the award-winning Britons: Forging the Nation, 1707-1837 and, most recently, The Ordeal of Elizabeth Marsh, the extraordinary story of an intrepid 18th century female traveller and her brushes with the Islamic world and slave trade.
Linda's musical choices reflect her own passions, such as works by Bach, Britten and Stravinsky, and also music she has encountered on her own travels while researching her books.
Private Passions playlist 1 July 2007
Sig M. Berkeley: The Wakeful Poet (from Music from Chaucer) (pub. OUP)
Beaux-Arts Brass Quintet
BBQ BBQ 003 T.10
Copland: Fanfare for the Common Man
New York PO/Leonard Bernstein
CBS MLK 44723 T.19
Leonard Bernstein - The Encore Collection
Handel: Where'er you walk (from Semele, Act II, Scene 3)
John Aler (tenor), ECO/John Nelson
DG 4357822 Disc 2 T.16
Handel - Semele
Rodrigo arr. Gil Evans: Concierto de Aranjuez
Miles Davis (trumpet), Orchestra/Gil Evans
CBS 4606042 T.1
Miles Davis - Sketches of Spain
Haydn: Sailor's Song
Anne Sofie von Otter (mezzo), Melvyn Tan (fortepiano)
Archiv 4471062 T.15
Mozart/Haydn: Lieder & Kanzonetten
Purcell: Rondeau (from Music in Abdelazer)
The Parley of Instruments Baroque Orchestra/Roy Goodman
Hyperion CDA 670013 Disc 3 T.2
Purcell: Complete Ayres for the Theatre
Lennon & McCartney: Please Please Me
The Beatles
Parlophone CDR 4983 T.1
The Beatles - Please Please Me
Bach: In deine Hande befehl ich meinen Geist . Heute wirst du mit mir
(from Cantata No. 106 - Actus Tragicus)
Michael Chance (counter-tenor), Stephen Varcoe (bass), Monteverdi Choir,
English Baroque Soloists/Sir John Eliot Gardiner
Archiv 4297822 T.3
J.S.Bach: Kantaten BWV 106, 1218b, 198
Stravinsky: Firebird (conclusion)
Chicago SO/Pierre Boulez
DG 4378502 T.14-15
Strawinsky: Der Feuervogel, 4 Etuden u.a.
