Private Passions - 07/09/2008

Michael Berkeley meets American folk singer and songwriter Judy Collins, who made her name in the Greenwich Village scene of the 1960s in company with Bob Dylan, Joni Mitchell and Leonard Cohen. Four decades later, in 2008, she is still writing and recording her songs, as well as involving herself in social activism. Her eclectic musical choices range from Rachmaninov's Second Piano Concerto to songs by Ned Rorem, Stephen Sondheim and Joni Mitchell. M Berkeley: The Wakeful Poet (from Music from Chaucer) (Berkeley/OUP) Beaux Arts Brass Quintet Judy Collins : Since You’ve Asked ‘The Essential Judy Collins’ WILDFLOWER WFL1302-2 – TRACK 7 (Collins/Universal Music Corp ASCAP) Francesco Landini : ‘Lasso ! Di Donna’ ‘The Sport of Love’ DORIAN DOR 93175 – Track 5 Jay Hill (voice), Colleen Sheinberg (harp), Art Sheinberg (vielle) (from Música Antigua de Albuquerque) Ned Rorem : I am Rose (Gertrude Stein) ‘Songs’ NAXOS 8559084 – Track 21 Carole Farley (soprano), Ned Rorem (piano) Rorem/Stein Boosey & Hawkes/CF Peters Corporation SEGUE Ned Rorem : Early in the Morning (Robert Hillier) ‘Songs’ NAXOS 8559084 – Track 24 Carole Farley (soprano), Ned Rorem (piano) Rorem/Hillier Boosey & Hawkes/CF Peters Corporation Rachmaninov : 1st mvt from Piano Concerto no 2 in C Minor op 18 DG 00289 477 5499 – Track 1 Lang Lang (piano), Orchestra of the Marinsky Theatre/Valery Gergiev Joni Mitchell : Both Sides Now Both Sides Now REPRISE 9362476202 – Track 12 Featuring Wayne Shorter (soprano saxophone) Orchestra arranged and conducted by Vince Mendoza Mitchell/Crazy Crow Music Copland : Lincoln Portrait (excerpt) ‘Portraits of Freedom’ DELOS DE3140 – Track 2 James Earl Jones (speaker), Seattle Symphony Orchestra/Gerard Schwarz Sondheim : Pretty Women from Sweeney Todd (excerpt) RCA 33792RC – Track 19 Edmund Lyndeck, Len Cariou, (Original Broadway Cast Recording) Sondheim/Alfred Publishing Kenny White : Symphony in 16 Bars WILDFLOWER WFL 1304 –track 11 Kenny White/MVP Music ASCAP