Ashley Page
Sunday 15 May 2005 12:00-13:00 (Radio 3)
Michael Berkeley's guest is the dancer and choreographer Ashley Page, currently Artistic Director of Scottish Ballet. His work is informed by the juxtaposition of classical and modern styles, and his musical choices range from Beethoven and Tchaikovsky to Weill, Schoenberg, Stravinsky, Brian Eno and King Crimson.
Playlist
M Berkeley The Wakeful Poet (Music from Chaucer) (pub OUP)
Beaux-Arts Brass Quintet
BBQ BBQ 003 T10
Kurt Weill Overture (from The Threepenny Opera, Act 1)
Orchestra of Sender-Freies, Berlin/Wilhelm Bruckner-Ruggerberg
CBS MK 42637 T1
Schoenberg Heimweh (Nostalgia from Part 3 of Pierrot Lunaire, Op 21)
Lucy Shelton, Da Capo Chamber Players
BRIDGE BCD 9032 T15
Beethoven Piano Trio in B flat, Op 97 (The Archduke, first movement, opening)
The Florestan Trio
HYPERION CDA 7369 T1
Brian Eno Baby's on Fire
VIRGIN ENOCD1 T3
Prokofiev Piano Concerto No 5 (4nd movement, Larghetto)
Alexander Toradze (piano), Kirov Orchestra/Valery Gergiev
PHILIPS 462 048-2 CD2 T8
Stravinsky Petrushka's Cell (from Petrushka)
Paris Conservatoire Concerts' Society Orchestra/Pierre Monteux
DECCA 440 064-2 T2
Tchaikovsky The Nutcracker (Transformation music from Act 1)
Orchestra of the ROH, Covent Garden/Mark Ermler
ROH 304/5 CD1 T7 [fade to 07 40]
King Crimson Easy Money
EG KCBOX 1 (4) T3
