Private Passions - 18/01/2009

Michael Berkeley talks to actress and author Carol Drinkwater, who played Helen Herriott in the TV series All Creatures Great and Small. She now runs an olive farm in Provence and has written a series of books about olive farming in the Mediterranean basin. Some of her musical choices are inspired by her travels on the olive trail, including Pablo Casals playing Bach as well as Spanish gypsy music. Plus some jazz choices including Miles Davis, Nina Simone and Oscar Peterson. Playlist: 1 Sig M Berkeley: The Wakeful Poet (from Music from Chaucer) (Berkeley/OUP) Beaux Arts Brass Quintet 0'26 2 Mahler: 'Youth' from 'Das Lied von der Erde' RCA 74321 679572 - Track 3 Ben Heppner (tenor), Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks Lorin Maazel (conductor) 2'59 3 Oscar Peterson : Laura Jazz 'Round Midnight VERVE 5110362 - Track 1 Oscar Peterson (piano), Ray Brown (bass) (D Raksin/J Mercer Robbins Music Corp ASCAP) 3'30 4 JS Bach : Prelude and Allemande from Cello Suite no 1 in G major BWV 1007 Pablo Casals (cello) 'Cello Suites' EMI CHS7610272 - CD1 - track 1 + 2 6'07 5 Nina Simone : Ne me Quitte Pas (If you go away) 'Feeling Good' VERVE 5227472 - Track 4 (J Brel/ASCAP) 3'33 6 Nigel Kennedy : Riders on the Storm from The Doors Concerto Nigel Kennedy (violin), Prague Symphony Orchestra/Peter Scholes The Doors/Doors Music incorp. Arranged, orchestrated and produced by Jaz Coleman DECCA 4673502 - Track 1 6'17 7 Federico Garcia Lorca - 'La casada infiel' 'Romancero Gitano/Lorca VIRGIN CLASSICS VC5456382 - Track 4 Vicente Pradal arr V Pradal 4'43 8 Miles Davis : 'Generique' from 'Ascenseur pour l'échafaud' FONTANA 836305-2 - Track 17 Miles Davis (tpt), Rene Urtreger (pno), Pierre Michelot (bass), Kenny Clarke (drums) 2'45 9 JS Bach : 2nd mvt from Concerto for 2 violins BWV 1043 Heifetz/ETC Double Concertos RCA 09026617462 - Track 8 Jascha Heifetz , Erick Friedman (violins), Thornton Lofthouse (harpsichord), New Symphony Orchestra of London/Sir Malcolm Sargent 5'55.