Neil Kinnock
Sunday 3 December 2006 12:00-13:00 (Radio 3)
Michael Berkeley's guest is Neil Kinnock, former Labour Party leader. From 1995 until 2004 he was a UK Commissioner on the European Commission, and he is now Chair of the British Council and President of Cardiff University.
His musical passions embrace grand opera, particularly Verdi, Wagner and Puccini, as well as the Hummel Trumpet Concerto, the finale of Bruch's G minor Violin Concerto played by Nigel Kennedy, and the Romance from Shostakovich's Gadfly Suite.
Private Passions playlist 26 November 2006
Sig M. Berkeley: The Wakeful Poet (from Music from Chaucer) (pub. OUP)
Beaux-Arts Brass Quintet
BBQ BBQ 003 T.10
Wagner arr. Fletcher: Roman War Song (from Rienzi)
Massed Welsh Male Voice Choirs/Tudor Spencer Davies (organ)/Roy Bohana
The very best of the Festivals of 1000 Welsh Male Voices
EMI CDEMS 1448 T.19
Puccini: Recondita Armonia (from Tosca, Act I)
Beniamino Gigli (Cavaradossi)/Giulio Tomei (Sacristan)/Rome Opera Orchestra/Oliviero de Fabritiis
Puccini: Tosca
EMI CHS 7633382 Disc 1 T.2
Verdi: If you want a faithful lover (from Rigoletto, Act III)
Arthur Davies (The Duke)/Helen Field (Gilda)/Jean Rigby (Maddalena)/John Rawnsley (Rigoletto)/
Orchestra of ENO/Mark Elder
EMI CMS 7693692 Disc 2 T.14 (exc.)
Hummel: Trumpet Concerto in E (2nd mvt - Andante)
Hakan Hardenberger (trumpet)/Academy of St Martin-in-the-Fields/Sir Neville Marriner
Haydn.Hummel.Stamitz.Hertel
Philips 420 203-2 T.2
Bruch: Violin Concerto No.1 in G minor, Op.26 (Finale - Allegro energico)
Nigel Kennedy (violin)/ECO/Jeffrey Tate
EMI CDC 7496632 T.3
Mendelssohn and Bruch Violin Concertos
Donizetti: Una furtiva lagrima (from L'Elisir d'Amore, Act II)
Luciano Pavarotti (Nemorino)/Metropolitan Opera Orchestra/James Levine
Donizetti: L'Elisir d'Amore
DG 4297442 Disc 2 T.11
Bruckner: Symphony No.4 in E flat - Romantic (opening of 1st mvt - Bewegt, nicht zu schnell)
Berlin PO/Daniel Barenboim
Teldec 9031-73272-2 T.1 (exc.)
Bruckner: Symphony No.4
Shostakovich: Romance (from The Gadfly)
Martin Milner (violin)/Halle Orchestra/Owain Arwel Hughes
CFP CDCFP 9009 T.9
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