Private PassionsDaniel Mason
Sunday 17 October 2004 12:00-13:00 (Radio 3)
Today Michael Berkeley talks to Daniel Mason, the American medical student who wrote his best-selling first novel The Piano Tuner while studying malaria in the Far East. The British composer Nigel Osborne subsequently turned the story into an opera, which had its world premiere in London last week and is touring the UK this autumn. Daniel Mason's choices include keyboard works by Bach, Clementi and Haydn, Mahler's Sixth Symphony, and the delightful Bagatelles by Dvorak.
Duration:1 hour |
 Playlist Sig M. Berkeley: The Wakeful Poet (from Music from Chaucer) (pub. OUP)
Beaux-Arts Brass Quintet BBQ BBQ 003 T.10
1. Bach: Prelude in F sharp minor (from Well Tempered Clavier, Book II)
Glenn Gould (piano) Sony SM2K 52603 Disc 2 T.3
2. Dvorák: Bagatelle, Op.9/1
Members of the Prazak Quartet/Jaroslav Tuma (harmonium) Praga PRD 250110 T.9
3. Bach: Chaconne (from Partita in D minor, BWV 1004) (opening)
Christoph Poppen (violin)/ ECM 461 895-2 T.11 (exc.)
4. Mahler: Symphony No.6 (opening of 1st mvt)
NYPO/Leonard Bernstein Sony SMK 60208 T.1 (exc.)
5. Daniel Mason: The Piano Tuner (exc.) (pub. Picador)
Daniel Mason read live during recording session
6. Haydn: Sonata No.50 in D, Hob.XVI/37 (1st mvt – Allegro con brio)
Julia Cload (piano) Meridian ECD 84083 T.1
7. Barber: Adagio for Strings (pub. Schirmer)
Philadelphia Orchestra/Eugene Ormandy Sony SBK 63034 T.6
8. Bach: English Suite No.2 in A minor, BWV 807 (1st mvt – Prelude)
Glenn Gould (piano) Sony SM2K 52606 Disc 1 T.11
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