Jon Snow
Sunday 4 December 2005 12:00-13:00 (Radio 3)
Another chance to hear the journalist and broadcaster Jon Snow discussing his musical enthusiasms with Michael Berkeley. Many of his choices reflect his early background as a cathedral chorister, with sacred works by Bach, Rossini, Mozart, Beethoven and Herbert Howells, as well as music by Poulenc, Prokofiev and Schumann.
Playlist
Sig M. Berkeley: The Wakeful Poet (from Music from Chaucer) (pub. OUP)
Beaux-Arts Brass Quintet
BBQ BBQ 003 T.10
Schumann: Études Symphoniques, Op.13 (Theme and Variation 1)
Rudolf Firkušný (piano)
EMI CDM 56608 2 T.19-20
Howells: Magnificat (Collegium Regale)
Choir of King's College, Cambridge/Peter Barley (organ)/Stephen Cleobury
Argo 430 205-2 T.13
Beethoven: Kyrie (from Missa Solemnis, Op.123)
Gundula Janowitz (soprano)/Christa Ludwig (mezzo)/Fritz Wunderlich (tenor)/Walter Berry (bass)/
Wiener Singverein/Berlin PO/Herbert von Karajan
DG 423 913-2 Disc 1 T.1
Mozart: Quoniam (from Mass in C minor, K.427)
Sylvia McNair, Diana Montague (sopranos)/Anthony Rolfe Johnson (tenor)/
English Baroque Soloists/Sir John Eliot Gardiner
Philips 420 210-2 T.7
Prokofiev: The Philosophers (from Cantata for the 20th Anniversary of the October Revolution)
Philharmonia Chorus and Orchestra/Neeme Järvi
Chandos CHAN 9095 T.2
Bach: Herr, unser Herrscher, dessen Ruhn (from St John Passion)
Monteverdi Choir/English Baroque Soloists/Sir John Eliot Gardiner
Archiv 427 319-2 T.1 (exc.)
Poulenc: Allegro giocoso (from Organ Concerto)
Maurice Duruflé (organ)/French National Radio Orchestra/Georges Prêtre
EMI CDC 747723 2 T.1 (exc.)
Rossini: Kyrie (from Petite Messe Solennelle)
Raymond Allesandrini (piano)/Emmanuel Mandrin (harmonium)/Ensemble Vocal Michel Piquemal/Michel Piquemal
Accord 476 060-2 Disc 1 T.1
Purcell arr. Rees-Williams: When I am laid in earth
David Rees-Williams Trio
Artist's Private recording T.9
