Henry Goodman
Sunday 25 September 2005 12:00-13:00 (Radio 3)
Michael Berkeley's guest is actor Henry Goodman, known for his award-winning performance as Shylock in the Royal National Theatre's 1999 production of The Merchant of Venice.
He is also known for many appearances in film, television and West End musicals such as Follies and Chicago. His wide-ranging musical passions include operas by Verdi, Bizet and Richard Strauss; Schoenberg's Verklaerte Nacht, Jewish traditional music and a song by Jacques Brel.
Playlist
Wynton Marsalis Premature Autopsies (from CD The Majesty of the Blues)
Sermon written by Stanley Crouch, and delivered by Reverend Jeremiah Wright Jnr
The Wynton Marsalis Sextet
CBS 4651292 T3
Verdi Niun mi tema (end of Otello, Act 4)
Luciano Pavarotti (Otello), Chicago SO/Georg Solti
DECCA 433 669-2 T22
Lee Hyla/Allen Ginsberg Howl
Allen Ginsberg (reader), Kronos Quartet
NONESUCH 7559 79372 T9
Strauss Mir anvertraut (Die Frau ohne Schatten, Act 3)
Jose Van Dam (Barak), Hildegard Behrens (his wife), Elzbieta Ardam (the voice from above), Vienna PO/Georg Solti
DECCA 436 243-2 CD3 T2-3
Jacques Brel Madeleine
BARCLAY 531711-2 CD1 T13
Schoenberg Verklaerte Nacht (excerpt)
Orpheus CO
DG 429 233-2 T2
Bizet Au fond du temple saint (from The Pearl Fishers, Act 1)
Jussi Bjoerling and Robert Merrill, RCA SO/Renato Cellini
RCA 75605 51356-2 T1
Oi va voi Gypsy (from the CD Laugheter through tears)
OUTCASTE CASTE29CD T8
Kander and Ebb We both reached for the gun (from Chicago)
Henry Goodman (Billy Flynn)
RCA VICTOR 09026 63155-2 T8
