David Harsent
Sunday 17 June 2007 12:00-13:00 (Radio 3)
Michael Berkeley's guest is poet David Harsent, winner of the 2005 Forward Poetry Prize for his collection, Legion. As well as nine poetry collections, he has also written opera libretti, notably for Harrison Birtwistle, with whom he is working on a new opera, The Minotaur.
His musical choices range from Britten's setting of the Border ballad The Lyke Wake Dirge and Billie Holiday singing Fine and Mellow, to Wagner's Siegfried Idyll, Beethoven's Emperor Piano Concerto, and the Sanctus from Gounod's joyous St Cecilia Mass.
Private Passions playlist 17 June 2007
M BerkeleyThe Wakeful Poet (Music from Chaucer) (pub OUP)
Beaux-Arts Brass Quintet
BBQ BBQ 003 T10
Birtwistle Gawain's Epilogue & Coda (from Gawain)
Francois Le Roux (Gawain), Marie Angel (Morgan Le Fay), Chorus and Orchestra of the ROH/Elgar Howarth
COLLINS CLASSICS 70412 CD2 T33-34 [T34 ends 03 03]
Billie Holiday Fine & Mellow (1957 version)
Billie Holiday (vocals), with solos by Ben Webster, Lester Young (tenor saxes), Vic Dickenson (tbn), Gerry Mulligan (baritone sax), Coleman Hawkins (tenor sax), and Roy Eldridge (tpt)
Billie Holiday LP JAZZBIRD JAZ 2003 S2 B1
Britten Dirge (from Serenade for tenor, horn and strings, Op 31)
Peter Pears (tenor), Dennis Brain (horn), New SO/Eugene Goossens
Britten DECCA 0289 476 847-2 T5
James MacMillan The Children (poem by William Soutar)
Alison Smart (soprano), Katharine Durran (piano)
Peripheral Visions METIER MSV CD92025 T2
Wagner Siegfried Idyll (opening)
Philharmonia Orchestra/Otto Klemperer
The Klemperer Legacy EMI 7243 5 67036 2 9 CD1 T1
Albert Ayler For John Coltrane (excerpt)
Albert Ayler (alto sax), Joel Friedman (cello), Alan Silva (bass), Bill Folwell (bass), Beaver Harris (drums)
Albert Ayler in Greenwich Village IMPULSE IMP 22732 CD2 T1
Gounod Sanctus (from the St. Cecilia Mass)
Laurence Dale (tenor), Choeurs de Radio France, Nouvel Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France/George Pretre Gounod EMI CDC7470842 [1] T5
