Quentin Blake
Sunday 2 January 2005 12:00-13:00 (Radio 3)
Michael Berkeley's guest is artist and illustrator Quentin Blake. His choices include string quartets by Beethoven and Janacek, and songs by Dowland, Britten and Georges Brassens.
Playlist
Sig M. Berkeley: The Wakeful Poet (from Music from Chaucer) (pub. OUP)
Beaux-Arts Brass Quintet
BBQ BBQ 003 T.10
Dowland: In darkness let me dwell
Alfred Deller (counter-tenor)/Desmond Dupré (guitar)
EMI CDH 565501 2 T.4
Janácek: Quartet No 2 - Intimate Letters (1st mvt -Andante - Allegro)
The Lindsays
ASV CDDCA 749 T.5
Britten: At the railway station, Upway (from Winter Words, Op.52)
Peter Pears (tenor)/Benjamin Britten (piano)
Decca 425 996-2 T.22
Verdi: Era la notte + Si, pel ciel (from Otello, Act II)
Placido Domingo (Otello)/Sherrill Milnes (Iago)/National PO/James Levine
RCA 74321 39501 2 Disc 1 T.19-20
Offenbach: Oui, c'est un rêve (from La Belle Hélène, Act II)
Jane Rhodes (Hélène)/Bernard Plantey (Paris)/Orchestra/Manuel Rosenthal
Philips 442 237-2 T.7
Brassens: Le Parapluie
Georges Brassens
Philips 9101 043 S.2 B 2
Beethoven: Quartet in F, Op.135 (4th mvt - Grave ma non troppo tratto - Allegro)
Hollywood Quartet
Testament SBT 3082 Disc 3 T.9
