Chris Patten
Sunday 21 May 2006 12:00-13:00 (Radio 3)
Michael Berkeley's guest is Lord Patten, the former Conservative MP who became the last British Governor of Hong Kong and subsequently European Commissioner for foreign relations. His musical choices include a Handel aria sung by Andreas Scholl, the quartet from Beethoven's Fidelio, Haydn's C major Cello Concerto, and Hoagy Carmichael's Riverboat Shuffle.
Playlist 21 May
1: Veni Creator Spiritus by Anon
Coro des monjes del Monasterio Benedictino de Santo Domingo de Silos/ Ismael Fernández de la Cuesta
CD/Record number:EMI 5652172
2: Pompe vano di morte + Dove sei (from Rodelinda, Act 1, Scene 6) by Handel
Andreas Scholl (counter-tenor)/Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin
CD/Record number:Harmonia Mundi HMC 901685
3: Riverboat Shuffle by Hoagy Carmichael
Hoagy Carmichael/Perry Botkin and his Orchestra (rec.1938)
CD/Record number:Timeless CBC 1011
4: Cello Concerto in C, Hob.VIIb:1 (2nd mvt - Adagio) by Haydn
Mstislav Rostropovich (cello)/Academy of St Martin-in-the-Fields/Iona Brown
CD/Record number:EMI 7493052
5: When William at eve (from Rosina) by Shield
Joan Sutherland (soprano)/New Symphony Orchestra of London/Richard Bonynge
CD/Record number:Decca 421 881-2
6: Mir ist so wunderbar (from Fidelio, Act I) by Beethoven
Ingeborg Hallstein (Marzelline)/Christa Ludwig (Leonore)/Gottlob Frick (Rocco)/ Gerhard Unger (Jaquino)/Philharmonia Orchestra/Otto Klemperer
CD/Record number:EMI 5673642
7: Petit Pays by Cesaria Evora
Cesaria Evora
CD/Record number:Nonesuch 9793792
8: Benedictus (from Nelson Mass, Hob.XXII:11) by Haydn
Susan Gritton (soprano)/Pamela Helen Stephen (mezzo)/Mark Padmore (tenor)/ Stephen Varcoe (baritone)/Collegium Musicum 90/Richard Hickox
CD/Record number:Chandos CHAN 0640
