Private Passions - Deborah Warner

Michael Berkeley's guest is award-winning theatre director Deborah Warner, who has brought a new stage production of Handel's Messiah to London's Coliseum. It is to be broadcast by BBC Radio 3 as the culmination of a year-long celebration in 2009 of Handel as one of Radio 3's Composers of the Year. M Berkeley: The Wakeful Poet (Music from Chaucer) Beaux Arts Brass Quintet (Berkeley/OUP) Duration: 0m26s Once in Royal David's City (words Mrs C F Alexander, music H J Gauntlett, harm A H Mann, descant Willcocks) King's College Choir, Cambridge David Willcocks (director) Christmas at Kings EMI VTDCD933, CD 1 Track 1 Duration: 5m12s Mozart: Don Giovanni (Opening from Act 1, excerpt) Donna Anna ...... Amanda Halgrimson (soprano) Don Giovanni ...... Andreas Schmidt (bass-baritone) Leporello ....... Gregory Yurisich (baritone) Il Commendatore ...... Alastair Miles (bass) London Classical Players Roger Norrington (conductor) EMI CD27548592, CD 1 Track 1 Duration: 3m04s Irish Tune, arr. Britten: The Salley Gardens (Trad, arr. Britten/words: WB Yeats) Ian Bostridge (tenor) Julius Drake (piano) English Songbook EMI CDC5568302 Tr 18 Duration: 2m27s Lewis Carroll: The Door Led Right into A Kitchen (Alice in Wonderland) Fiona Shaw (reader) NAXOS AUDIOBOOK NA213712, CD 1 Tr 6 Duration: 4m00s Purcell: Overture; When I Am Laid In Earth (Dido and Aeneas) Dido ...... Veronique Gens (soprano) Les Arts Florissants William Christie (conductor) ERATO 4509984772 Trs 1, 25 Duration: 1m56s/3m46s Schubert: Impromptu No 3 in G flat, Op 90 Alfred Brendel (piano) PHILIPS 4222372 Tr 3 Duration: 6m03s Berg: Wozzeck (Act 3, Scs 2-3 transition) Wozzeck ...... Franz Grundheber (baritone) Marie ...... Hildegard Behrens (soprano) Vienna Philharmonic Claudio Abbado (conductor) DG 423 588-2/589-2, CD 2 Trs 8-9 Duration: 2m53s Handel: He Shall Feed His Flock (Messiah) Carolyn Sampson (soprano) Catherine Wyn-Rogers (alto) The Sixteen Harry Christophers (conductor) CORO COR16062 Tr 21 Duration: 5m38s.