29 May 2005
Sunday 29 May 2005 12:00-13:00 (Radio 3)
Michael Berkeley's guest this week is the broadcaster Humphrey Burton, who is currently presenting Bernstein Week on Radio 3. Bernstein is just one of his many enthusiasms, and over the course of a distinguished career in radio and television he has made many flagship arts programmes, with a particular focus on music. His personal choices range from Mozart, Schubert and Verdi to Poulenc, Milhaud and Gershwin.
Playlist
M Berkeley The Wakeful Poet (Music from Chaucer) (pub OUP)
Beaux-Arts Brass Quintet
BBQ BBQ 003 T10
1. Mozart Piano Concerto in D minor K 466
London Philharmonic Orchestra/Edwin Fischer (piano)
PHILIPS 456 769-2 CD1 T3
2. Milhaud Scaramouche (third movement, Brazileira)
Marcelle Meyer & Darius Milhaud (2 pianos)
EMI CDC 7 54604-2 T4
3. Schubert Auf der Bruck, D853
Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau (baritone) and Gerald Moore (piano)
DG 437 225-2 CD7 T7
4. Gershwin One of these mornings…Oh dere's somebody knockin at the door (Porgy and Bess, II, iv)
Harolyn Blackwell (Clara), Willard White (Porgy), Cynthia Haymon (Bess), Glyndebourne Chorus, LPO/Simon Rattle
EMI 7 49568-2 CD3 T2-4
5. Bernstein The Great Lover Displays Himself (1st of 3 Dance Episodes from On the Town)
NYPO/Leonard Bernstein
SONY SM3K 47154 CD1 T14
6. Wagner Gotterdammerung (end of Act 2)
Birgit Nilsson (Brunnhilde), Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau (Gunther), Gottlob Frick (Hagen), VPO/Georg Solti
DECCA 455 572-2 CD3 T14
7. Kosma arr R. Sund Les Feuilles Mortes
Elisabeth Soderstrom (soprano), Orphei Drangar Choir/Eric Ericsson
Recorded at Uppsala University on 25/12/72
LP: RCA Victrola YSVL 1-525 S2 B3
8. Poulenc "C" (the first of Deux pomes de Louis Aragon)
Pierre Bernac with Poulenc
EMI CDC 7 546052 T17
9. Walton Tango-Pasadoble (from Façade)
Constant Lambert (narrator), ensemble/William Walton
SYMPOSIUM 1203 T6
10. Verdi Requiem (end of the Libera Me)
Martina Arroyo (soprano) LSO & Chorus/Leonard Bernstein
SONY SM2K 47639 CD 2 T5
