Gyles Brandreth
Sunday 10 June 2007 12:00-13:00 (Radio 3)
Michael Berkeley meets Gyles Brandreth, the former Conservative MP and party whip, who is now much in demand as a broadcaster, writer and after-dinner speaker.
His musical passions include songs by Charles Trenet, Gilbert and Sullivan and Stephen Sondheim, as well as a Mozart piano concerto, a piano quintet by pioneering American composer Amy Beach, and Liszt's Faust Symphony, as used in Kenneth MacMillan's ballet Mayerling.
Private Passions playlist 10 June 2007
Sig M Berkeley: The Wakeful Poet (from Music from Chaucer)
(Berkeley/OUP)
Beaux Arts Brass Quintet
Sir Hubert Parry : Dear Lord and Father of Mankind
'Famous Hymns of Praise' PRIORY PRCD376 - track 22
Choir of St Mary's Episcopal Cathedral Edinburgh/Dennis Townhill (director)/Peter Backhouse (organ)
Charles Trenet: Que Reste-t-il de nos Amours?
'Charles Trenet' Columbia 1720092 - Track 9
(C Trenet, L Chauliac/Salabert)
Mendelssohn: Dance of the Clowns from A Midsummer Night's Dream
(Symphony no 3/Midsummer's Night Dream DECCA 4669902) - TRACK 11
London Symphony Orchestra/Peter Maag
Laurence Olivier: "Most potent, grave, and reverend signiors."
'Highlights Othello' RCA Victor RB6669 - Side 2 Band A
Royal National Theatre Recording 1966
Mozart: 3rd Mvt from Piano Concerto no 21 in C Major K467
Virgin 724356144521 - CD 1TRACK 3
Diane Ambache/Ambache Chamber Orchestra
Amy Beach: 2nd Mvt from Piano Quintet in F sharp minor Op 67
'Beach: Chamber Works' CHANDOS CHAN9752 - TRACK 2
The Ambache
Beach/Arthur P Schmidt
Gilbert & Sullivan: 'Conceive me if you can' from 'Patience'
'Patience' LONDON 4144292 - CD 2 TRACK 18 Out >
John Reed (Bunthorne) & Kenneth Sandford (Grosvenor) from D'Oyly Carte Opera Company
Liszt: Excerpt from 1st Movement of Faust Symphony
(as featured in 'Act I Pas de Deux' of 'The Mayerling')
DG 431470-2 - TRACK 1
Boston Symphony Orchestra/Leonard Bernstein
Stephen Sondheim: With so Little to Be Sure of
'Anyone Can Whistle' COLUMBIA CK2480 - TRACK 6
Lee Remick/Harry Guardino from the Original Broadway Cast Recording
Sondheim/ASCAP
