Katie Melua
Sunday 20 January 2008 12:00-13:00 (Radio 3)
Michael Berkeley meets singer and songwriter Katie Melua who, in the course of a career lasting only four years so far, has sold more than 7.5 million albums, and by 2006 was the highest-selling European female artist in the world.
Katie acknowledges the influence of many different artists on her style, including Joni Mitchell, Eva Cassidy, Paul Simon and Irish folk music, but she also loves classical music, and her choices include works by Beethoven, Chopin, Tchaikovsky and Ravel.
Private Passions playlist 20 January 2008
Sig M Berkeley: The Wakeful Poet (from Music from Chaucer)
(Beaux Arts Brass Quintet
Katie Melua : Mary Pickford (excerpt) 'Pictures'
DRAMATICO DRAMCD0035 - track 1
Chopin : Nocturne no 16 in E flat major (op 55 no 2)
Chopin Nocturnes DG4470962 - CD2 track 6
Maria Joao Pires (piano)
Paul Simon: Homeward Bound
'The Very Best of.' Columbia SONYTV81CD - CD 1 - track 8
Simon & Garfunkel
Tchaikovsky : Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy from The Nutcracker Suite
Nutcracker, Swan Lake etc DECCA 4487042 - Track 9
Israel Philharmonic Orchestra/Zubin Mehta
Ella Fitzgerald : I Can't Give You Anything But Love
'Jazz at the Philharmonic 1957' TAX TAXCD37032 - track 15
(Oscar Peterson (piano), Herb Ellis (guitar), Ray Brown (bass), Jo Jones (drums))
Ravel : 2nd mvt from Piano Concerto in G Major
Ravel - The Piano Concertos DG 4492132 - track 2
Krystian Zimerman (piano), London Symphony Orchestra/Pierre Boulez
Joni Mitchell : A Case of You
'Both Sides Now' WARNER/REPRISE 47620 - track 6
Joni Mitchell with London Symphony Orchestra arranged and conducted by Vince Mendoza
'Daniel in the Lions Den'
'Alan Lomax Collection Southern Journey vol 12,
Georgia Sea Islands, Biblical Songs & Spirituals'
ROUNDER CDROUN1712/0 - track 6
Bessie Jones & Group
Beethoven : 1st mvt from Piano Sonata no 14 in C sharp minor, 'Moonlight'
PHILIPS 4388632 - TRACK 9
Alfred Brendel (piano)
