Peter Nichols
Sunday 7 October 2007 12:00-13:00 (Radio 3)
Michael Berkeley's guest is playwright Peter Nichols, author of black comedies A Day in the Death of Joe Egg, Privates on Parade, and Passion Play.
His musical choices range from children's choruses by Kodaly, piano music by Erik Satie and an air from Purcell's The Indian Queen, to Gershwin's delightful Walking the Dog and Hoagy Carmichael's Stardust.
Private Passions playlist 7 October 2007
M Berkeley The Wakeful Poet (Music from Chaucer) (pub OUP)
Beaux-Arts Brass Quintet
BBQ BBQ 003 T10
Kodaly See the gipsies
Cantemus/Denes Szabo
Kodaly HUNGAROTON HCD 31291 T1
Handel For unto us a child is born (from Messiah)
London Symphony Chorus and Orchestra/Sir Colin Davis
Handel Messiah PHILIPS 464 703-2 CD1 T10
Rossini L'innocence italien & le candour francais (from Sins of My Old Age)
Luciano Sgrizzi (piano)
Rossini NONESUCH H71163 S2 B5
Benny Goodman and his Band Clarinet a la King
Benny Goodman and his Band EMPRESS RAJCD T1
Purcell Air: What flatt'ring noise is this? (from The Indian Queen)
John Elwes (tenor), David Thomas (bass), The Monteverdi Choir and English Baroque Soloists/Sir John Eliot Gardiner
The Indian Queen ERATO 5046 6828 T11-12
Gershwin Promenade (Walking the dog) (from Shall We Dance?)
Katia and Marielle Lebeque
Gershwin SONY SK 48 381 T11
Walton The Globe Theatre (from the film music for Henry V)
The Philharmonia Orchestra/Sir William Walton
Walton EMI 5 65007-2 T8
Stephen Sondheim/John Weidman Please Hello (from Pacific Overtures)
The Original Boadway Cast Recording
Pacific Overtures RCA Victor 2W6P T8
Josephine Baker C'est un nid charmant (There's a small hotel)
Josephine Baker DRG DRGCD5573 T21
Hoagy Carmichael Stardust
Ray Bush's BBC Jazz with Geoff Nichols (vines)
Palm Springs Reunion ROLLERCOASTER RECORDS RCCD 6007 T13
