Sheila Hancock,
Sunday 2 October 2005 12:00-13:00 (Radio 3)
Michael Berkeley's guest is actress Sheila Hancock, who has appeared in countless stage productions, most recently The Anniversary. Her film credits include Three Men and a Little Lady and Sally Potter's Yes, and she has starred in many comedy series for BBC TV. Sheila has recently published The Two of Us, a moving memoir of her marriage to actor John Thaw.
Her musical passions include piano concertos by Tchaikovsky, Ravel and Rachmaninov, chamber music by Beethoven, Elgar and Britten, and Sondheim's Sweeney Todd.
Playlist
Sig M. Berkeley: The Wakeful Poet (from Music from Chaucer) (pub. OUP)
Beaux-Arts Brass Quintet
BBQ BBQ 003 T.10
Rachmaninov: Piano Concerto No.3 in D minor, Op.30 (conclusion of 3rd mvt - Finale)
Lang Lang (piano)/St Petersburg Philharmonic/Yuri Temirkanov
Telarc CD 80582 T.3 (exc.)
(Album - Rachmaninoff: Piano Concerto No.3. Lang Lang)
Sondheim: Ladies in their sensitivities (from Sweeney Todd)
Sarah Rice (Johanna)/Victor Garber (Anthony)/Edmund Lyneck (Judge Turpin)/
Jack Eric Williams (The Beadle)/Orchestra/Paul Gemignani
RCA 33792RC Disc 1 T.18
(Album - Sondheim: Sweeney Todd. Original Cast)
Elgar: Piano Quintet in A minor, Op.84 (opening of 2nd mvt - Adagio)
John Ogdon (piano)/Allegri Quartet
EMI 7698892 T.2 (exc.)
(Album - Elgar: Piano Quintet, Violin Sonata etc)
Vincent Youmans: Tea for Two
Yehudi Menuhin & Stéphane Grappelli (violins)
EMI 7692202 T.2
(Album: Menuhin and Grappelli play "Jealousy" and other great standards)
Beethoven: Quartet in B flat, Op.130 (5th mvt - Cavatina)
Medici Quartet
Nimbus NI 5254 T.5
(Album - Beethoven: String Quartets Op.130 & Op.133)
Ravel: Piano Concerto in G (2nd mvt - Adagio Assai)
Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli (piano)/Philharmonia Orchestra/Ettore Gracis
Philips 456 901-2 Disc 2 T.11
(Album - Great pianists of the 20th Century. Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli)
Britten: Elegy (from Serenade for Tenor, Horn and Strings, Op.31)
Peter Pears (tenor)/Dennis Brain (horn)/Boyd Neel String Orchestra/Benjamin Britten
(Album - British Music Collection. Benjamin Britten/William Walton)
Decca 468 801-2 T.4
Tchaikovsky: Piano Concerto No.1 in B flat minor, Op.23 (conclusion of 3rd mvt)
Martha Argerich (piano)/Bavarian Radio SO/Kyril Kondrashin
Philips 446 673-2 T.6 (exc.)
(Album- Rachmaninoff: Concerto No.3; Tchaikovsky: Concerto No.1)
