Terry Burns
Sunday 25 May 2008 12:00-13:00 (Radio 3)
Michael Berkeley's guest is the economist Terry Burns, a former Permanent Secretary to the Treasury, who is now chairman of Abbey National. A keen music-lover who learnt the clarinet as a schoolboy, he is now chairman of the board of governors of the Royal Academy of Music. His choices include excerpts from Purcell's The Fairy Queen and Monteverdi's Vespers, as well as a Bach cantata conducted by John Eliot Gardiner, Beethoven's Symphony No 5 conducted by Toscanini and Mozart's Marriage of Figaro from Carlos Kleiber.
Private Passions playlist 25 May 2008
Sig M. Berkeley: The Wakeful Poet (from Music from Chaucer) (pub. OUP)
Beaux-Arts Brass Quintet
BBQ BBQ 003 T.10
1. Beethoven: Symphony No.5 in C minor, Op.67 (1st mvt - Allegro con brio)
NBC SO/Arturo Toscanini (live in Carnegie Hall, 1952)
Beethoven: Symphonies Nos.5 & 8
RCA GD 60255 T.1
2. Mozart: Vostre dunque saran queste carte (form Le Nozze di Figaro, Act II)
Alfred Poell (Count Almaviva), Lisa della Casa (Countess Almaviva), Cesare Siepi (Figaro),
Hilde Gueden (Susanna), Harald Proglhof (Antonio), Vienna PO/Erich Kleiber
Mozart: Le Nozze di Figaro
Decca 4173152 Disc 2 T.3 (exc.)
3. Debussy: String Quartet (2nd mvt - Scherzo)
Quartetto Italiano
Philips 4426552 T.2
Debussy: Chamber Music
4. Stravinsky: Augurs of Spring + Mock Abduction (from The Rite of Spring)
Columbia SO/Igor Stravinsky
Sony SM3K 46291 Disc 2 T.17-18
Igor Stravinsky: Ballets Vol.1
5. Purcell: One Charming Night (from The Fairy Queen, Act II)
Timothy Penrose (countertenor), English Baroque Soloists/Sir John Eliot Gardiner
Purcell: The Fairy Queen
Archiv 4192212 Disc 1 T.18
6. Bach: Partita No.3 in E, BWV 1006 (3rd mvt - Gavotte en Rondeau)
Rachel Podger (violin)
Channel Classics CCS 14498 T.3
Johann Sebastian Bach Vol.2
7. Monteverdi: Vespro della Beata Vergine (opening)
Monteverdi Choir, English Baroque Soloists/Sir John Eliot Gardiner Archiv 4295652 Disc 1 T.1
Claudio Monteverdi: Vespro della Beata Vergine
8. Bach: Ach, schlage doch bald, sel'ge Stunde (from Christus, der man ist mein Leben, BWV 95) 7.19
Mark Padmore (tenor), English Baroque Soloists/Sir John Eliot Gardiner
Bach Cantatas 8 SDG SDG 104 Disc 2 T.23
9. Stravinsky: Final Hymn (from Firebird Suite - 1945)
Columbia SO/Igor Stravinsky Sony SMK 46293 T.34
Igor Stravinsky: Ballet Suites
