Paul Griffiths
Sunday 15 January 2006 12:00-13:00 (Radio 3)
Michael Berkeley talks to writer and critic Paul Griffiths, whose choices include works by Ligeti, Kurtag and Nono; alongside sacred music from the Middle Ages and songs by Debussy and Stravinsky.
Playlist
M Berkeley: The Wakeful Poet (Music from Chaucer) (pub OUP)
Beaux-Arts Brass Quintet
BBQ BBQ 003 T10
Giraut de Borneil Reis: glorios
Paul Hillier (tenor), Stephen Stubbs (lute), Erin Headley (vielle)
ECM 837 360-2 T2
Ligeti: Bittersweet (from With Pipes, Drums, Fiddles, No.6)
Katalin Károlyi (mezzo soprano). Amadinda Percussion Group
TELDEC 8573 87631-2 T14
Kurtág: In memoriam Joannis Pilinszky (Kafka Fragments, Part IV, No.6)
Adrienne Csengery (soprano), András Keller (violin)
HUNGAROTON HCD 31135 T38
Kurtág: Farewell
Adrienne Csengery (soprano), György Kurtág (piano)
HUNGAROTON HCD 31576 T5
Debussy: Clair de lune (Fêtes galantes, first set, No.3)
Christine Schäfer (soprano), Irwin Gage (piano)
DG 289 459 682 T9
Mozart: S'altro che lacrime per lui non tenti (La clemenza di Tito, Act 2, scene 12)
Sylvia McNair (Servilia), English Baroque Soloists/John Eliot Gardiner
DG ARCHIV 431 806 CD2 T15
Nono: Tarde (España en el corazon, No.1)
Roswitha Trexler (soprano), Werner Haselau (reciter and singer), Leipzig Radio Orchestra/Horst Neumann
BERLIN 00214 12BC T2
Dufay: Agnus Dei (Mass Se la face ay pale)
Diabolus in Musica/Antoine Guerber
ALPHA 051 T10
Stravinsky: When daisies pied (Three Songs from William Shakespeare, No.3)
Ann Murray (mezzo soprano), Ensemble Intercontemporain/Pierre Boulez
DG 431 751-2 T28
Ligeti: Parrot (With Pipes, Drums, Fiddles, No.7)
Katalin Károlyi (mezzo soprano). Amadinda Percussion Group
TELDEC 8573 87631 T15
