Private Passions - John Burnside

Michael Berkeley talks to Scots poet and novelist John Burnside, many of whose poetry collections and novels have either won or been shortlisted for major prizes. A recurring theme of his work is the darkness and violence that lies beneath the surface of everyday life, which is explored in his most recent novel Glister. His musical choices are more consoling and include sacred music by Sheppard and Handel, a Bach partita for solo keyboard, music from India and Spain, Tippett's Fantasia concertante on a Theme of Corelli and Miles Davis' Time after Time. M Berkeley The Wakeful Poet (Music from Chaucer) (pub OUP) 00 25 Beaux-Arts Brass Quintet BBQ BBQ 003 T10 John Sheppard Media vita The Tallis Scholars/Peter Phillips John Sheppard GIMMELL CDGIM 016 T1 06 55 Fernanda de Utrera Mi mal no tiene cura El cante de Fernanda de Utrera HISPAVOX 7 89479 2 T3 03 30 J.S. Bach Partita No 2 in C minor Glenn Gould (piano) Glenn Gould SONY SM2K 52 597 CD1 T7 04 12 Handel De torrente (from Dixit Dominus) Felicity Palmer and Margaret Marshall (sopranos), Monteverdi Choir and Orchestra/John Eliot Gardiner Handel ERATO 4509 99757-2 T7 04 09 Nikhil Banerjee Raga Bhimpalasri (excerpt) Nikil Banerjee (sitar), Kanai Dutta (tabla) Nikil Banerjee RAGA RECORDS 211 T2 05 58 Tippett Fantasia Concertante on a Theme of Corelli (excerpt) Academy of St Martin’s in the Fields/Neville Marriner Tippett DECCA 470 196 2 05 37 Miles Davis Time After Time (Hyman/Lauper) Live Around the World WARNER 9362 46032 2 T10 05 13