Stephen Venables
Sunday 18 February 2007 12:00-13:00 (Radio 3)
Michael Berkeley talks to mountaineer Stephen Venables, the first Briton to climb Everest without oxygen. His musical choices include a harpsichord piece by Rameau, Bach's Mass in B minor, Mozart, Schumann, Brahms, Elgar and Weill.
Private Passions playlist 18 February 2007
M Berkeley The Wakeful Poet (Music from Chaucer) (pub OUP)
Beaux-Arts Brass Quintet
BBQ BBQ 003 T10
READING:
Stephen Venables Island at the edge of the world (Warner Books) p148
Bach Et expecto resurrectionem (from the Credo, Mass in B minor)
The Monteverdi Choir and English Baroque Soloists/John Eliot Gardiner
ARCHIV 469 778-2 CD9 T9
Elgar Symphony No 1 in A flat, Op 55 (from the Finale)
LPO/Georg Solti
DECCA 443 856-2 T5
Brecht/Weill Surabaya Jonny (from Happy End)
Jessica Walker (vocals), Stephen Gutman (piano)
AVID RECORDS JWCD001 T15
Dudley Moore And the same to you and Colonel Bogey (from Beyond the Fringe)
EMI CDECC1 CD2 T3
Mozart Deh vieni (from TheMarriage of Figaro, Act 4)
Hilde Gueden (Susanna), VPO/Erich Kleiber
DECCA 466 372-2 T5
Rameau Les Tendres Plaintes (from the Suite in D minor, from the Pieces de Clavecin)
Sophie Yates (harpsichord)
CHANDOS CHAN 0659 T21
Schumann Die alten, bosen Lieder (last song from Dichterliebe, Op 48)
Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau (baritone), Christoph Eschenbach (piano)
DG 474 466-2 T28
Brahms Trio in E flat for violin, horn and piano, Op 40 (Scherzo)
Itzhak Perlman (violin), Barry Tuckwell (horn), Vladimir Ashkenazy (piano)
DECCA 452 887-2 T6
Richard Strauss Elektra (The final dance)
Birgit Nilsson (Elektra), VPO/Georg Solti
DECCA 458 700-2 CD2 T17
Faure Cantique de Jean Racine
Girls and Men of Bath Abbey
PRIORY PRCD 851 T2 04 46
