Paul Woodmansterne
Sunday 24 December 2006 12:00-13:00 (Radio 3)
Michael Berkeley's guest is Paul Woodmansterne, managing director of the family firm of greeting card manufacturers. A keen musician, cellist and singer, he now conducts the Woodmansterne Collection, a band of professional musicians who perform regularly in St Albans Cathedral.
His musical choices range from Bach's Mourning Ode to Haydn's Cello Concerto No 1, Beethoven's Symphony No 3 and a Christmas carol by John Gardner.
Private Passions playlist 24 December 2006
M Berkeley The Wakeful Poet (Music from Chaucer) (pub OUP)
Beaux-Arts Brass Quintet
BBQ BBQ 003 T10
Haydn Cello Concerto in C (2nd Movement Adagio)
Florilegium/Pieter Wispelwey (cello)
Haydn Channel Classics CCS 7395 T2
Gardner Tomorrow shall be my Dancing Day
Choir of Westminster Abbey/Simon Preston, Christopher Herrick (organ)
Christmas Carols DG 413 590-2 T17
Bach Lass, Furstin, lass noch einen Strahl (Mourning Ode, BWV 198, First Movement)
Monteverdi Choir & English Baroque Soloists/John Eliot Gardiner
Bach Cantatas Archiv 463 581-2 T6
Orlando Gibbons What is our life?
Annabella Tysall (soprano), The Rose Consort of Viols
Ah Dear Heart Woodmansterne 002-2 T9
Schubert (arr Leopold Jansa) Der Lindenbaum (Winterreise No 5)
Rachel Brown (flute) and Michael Haslam (piano)
Private recording, used with permission CD T8
Beethoven Symphony No.3 in E flat, Op 55 (Eroica) (Marcia funebre. 2nd Movement) Orchestre Revolutionnaire et Romantique/John Eliot Gardiner
Beethoven Archiv 439 900-2 CD 2 T2
