Martin Rowson
Sunday 22 April 2007 12:00-13:00 (Radio 3)
Michael Berkeley meets the Guardian's political cartoonist Martin Rowson who, with his colleague Steve Bell, produce lively visual commentaries on the international political scene.
Rowson is celebrated for his acid wit as well as his penetrating eye and he explains to Michael how a convinced atheist can find Bach's St Matthew Passion deeply moving, why he thinks Bob Dylan is greatly overrated as a poet and why we should all learn a song from The Sound of Music.
Private Passions playlist 22 April 2007
M BerkeleyThe Wakeful Poet (Music from Chaucer) (pub OUP)
Beaux-Arts Brass Quintet
BBQ BBQ 003 T10
Bach Kommt, ihr Tochter, helft mir klagen (Opening chorus. Part 1 of The St Matthew Passion)
The Monteverdi Choir, The London Oratory Junior Choir, The English Baroque Soloists/John Eliot Gardiner
Bach ARCHIV 469 772-2 CD3 T1
Chopin Marche Funebre (orch Leopold Stokowski)
BBC Philharmonic Orchestra/Matthias Bamert
BBC Philharmonic CHANDOS CHAN 9349 T9
Syd Barrett Dark Globe
The Madcap Laughs HARVEST CDGO2053 T5
Purcell March (from The Funeral Music for Queen Mary)
Oxford Camerata/Jeremy Summerly
Purcell NAXOS 8553129 T21
Mussorgsky The Great Gate of Kiev (from Pictures from an Exhibition)
Sviatoslav Richter (piano) (recorded live in Sofia in February 1959)
Richter PHILIPS 454 167-2 T14
Kurt Weill September Song
Lotte Lenya, Orchestra/Maurice Levine (1957 recording)
Lenya CBS CB 770 CDX CX T1
Flanders and SwannThe Armadillo
The Bestiary EMI CDP 7974672 T10
Rodgers and Hammerstein Do-Re-Mi (from The Sound of Music) (Original movie soundtrack)
Julie Andrews (Maria) with the children
The Sound of Music RCA ND90368 T11
