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Private Passions

5 September 2004

Sunday 5 September 2004 12:00-13:00 (Radio 3)

Michael Berkeley's guest today is the Scots journalist Ian Jack, editor of the influential literary magazine Granta. His musical choices reflect his wide interests, with traditional music from Northern Britain and India, songs by Schubert and Jerome Kern, a Beethoven violin sonata and Bix Beiderbecke playing Singin' the Blues.

Duration:

1 hour

Playlist

M. Berkeley: The Wakeful Poet (from Music from Chaucer)
Beaux-Arts Brass Quintet BBQ BBQ 003 T.10

1. Kern: I still suits me (from Showboat)
Paul Robeson and Elizabeth Welch 
Regis RRC 1056 T.13

2. Schubert: An die Musik
Kathleen Ferrier (contralto)/Phyllis Spurr (piano) 
Decca 430 096-2 T.15

3. Lewis, Young, Conrad & Robinson: Singin’ the Blues
Bix Beiderbecke with Frank Trumbauer and his Orchestra 
Verve 549 080-2 T.4

4. McColl: The Shoals of Herring
Ewan McColl & Peggy Seeger 
Cooking Vinyl COOKCD 038 T.8

5. Beethoven: Violin Sonata in A, op.47- “Kreutzer” (1st mvt conclusion - Presto) 
Itzhak Perlman (violin)/Vladimir Ashkenazy (piano) 
Decca 410 554-2 T.1 (exc.)

6. Watt: The Kelty Clippie 
John Watt 
Living Tradition LTCD 3001 T.10

7. Verdi: Ehi! Taverniere! (from Falstaff, Act III, Scene 1) 
José van Dam (Falstaff)/Berlin PO/Sir Georg Solti 
Decca 440 650-2 Disc 2 T.7

8. Trad Indian: Calamela
K.S. Gopalakrishnan (carnatic flute) 
Wergo SM 1502-2 T.1




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