Private Passions - Penelope Wilton

Michael Berkeley's guest is actress Penelope Wilton, whose career encompasses stage plays by Chekhov, Lorca, Ibsen, Pinter and Rattigan, TV work including Doctor Who, The Borrowers and Ever Decreasing Circles, as well as films such as Clockwise, Calendar Girls and Shaun of the Dead. Her musical interests range from Brahms and Dvorak to Debussy, Prokofiev and Weill. Playlist: M Berkeley: The Wakeful Poet (Music from Chaucer) (pub OUP) Beaux-Arts Brass Quintet BBQ BBQ 003, Tr 10 Duration: 25s Brahms: Symphony No 3 in F (3rd mvt) Berlin Philharmonic Rudolf Kempe (conductor) Rudolf Kempe TESTAMENT SBT 3054 CD1, Tr 7 Duration: 5m47s Weill: Speak Low (One Touch of Venus) Anne Sofie Von Otter (mezzo-soprano) NDR Symphony Orchestra John Eliot Gardiner (conductor) Speak Low DG 439 894-2, Tr 21 Duration: 3m56s Dvorak: Cello Concerto (excerpt from 1st mvt) Mstislav Rostropovich (cello) Berlin Philharmonic Herbert Von Karajan (conductor) Dvorak Cello Concerto DG 447 413-2, Tr 1 Duration: 5m41s Blossom Dearie: I'm Hip (words Dave Frishberg; music Bob Dorough) Blossom Dearie I'm Hip SONY 489123-2, Tr 1 Duration: 2m40s Debussy: Quartet in G minor (3rd mvt) The Lindsays Debussy ASV PLT 8505, Tr 12 Duration: 8m8s Ella Fitzgerald: Bewitched, Bothered and Bewildered (Rodgers and Hart) Ella Fitzgerald (vocals) Paul Smith (piano) Barney Kessel (guitar) Joe Mondragon (bass) Alvin Stoller (drums) VERVE 519 804-2, Tr 3 Duration: 4m32s Prokofiev: Symphony No 1 in D, Op 25 (Classical) (1st mvt) London Symphony Orchestra Andre Previn (conductor) Prokofiev EMI CZS 568604-2 CD2, Tr 21 Duration: 4m7s.