Claire Bloom
Sunday 9 December 2007 12:00-13:00 (Radio 3)
Michael Berkeley's guest is actress Claire Bloom, whose most famous stage roles have included Blanche in Tennessee Williams' A Streetcar Named Desire, while on TV she memorably appeared as Lady Marchmain in Brideshead Revisited.
Music is central to her life, and her choices reveal a passion for opera, plus Alfred Brendel playing Schubert, Heinrich Schiff playing Bach on the cello, and the radiant end of Schoenberg's Transfigured Night.
Private Passions playlist 9 December 2007
M BerkeleyThe Wakeful Poet (Music from Chaucer) (pub OUP)
Beaux-Arts Brass Quintet
BBQ BBQ 003 T10
Schoenberg Verklarte Nacht
The Nash Ensemble
Schoenberg VIRGIN VC 791478-2 T11
Verdi the end of Otello
Placido Domingo (Otello), Frank Little (Cassio), Paul Plishka (Lodovico), Malcolm King (Montano), National PO/James Levine
Otello RCA 74321 39501-2 CD2 T15
Bellini Casta Diva (from Norma Act 1)
Maria Callas (Norma), Orchestra and Chorus of La Scala, Milan/Tullio Serafin
The incomparable Callas 5 EMI CDC 7493932 T1
JS Bach Prelude from the Cello Suite No. 2 in D minor, BWV 1008
Heinrich Schiff (cello)
Bach EMI CZS 574179-2 CD1 T7
Mozart Una donna a quindici anni (from Cosi fan tutte, Act 2)
Anna Steiger (Despina) Royal Concertebouw Orchestra, Amsterdam/Nikolaus Harnoncourt
Cosi fan tutte TELDEC 90317138-2 CD2 T9
Schubert Piano Sonata in A, D959 (2nd movement, Andantino)
Alfred Brendel (piano)
Schubert PHILIPS 475 7193 CD2 T2
Tchaikovsky The Letter Scene (from Eugene Onegin Act 1)
Mirelli Freni (Tatyana), Orchestra of the Vienna State Opera/Seiji Ozawa
Eugene Onegin ORFEO C6370421 CD1 T10
Strauss Die Zeit, die ist ein sonderbar' Ding (the Marschallin's Act 1 aria from Der Rosenkavalier)
Elisabeth Schwarzkopf (The Countess), Christa Ludwig (Octavian), Philharmonia Orchestra/Herbert von Karajan
Der Rosenkavalier EMI 567605-2 CD1 T18-19
