Private Passions

Michael Berkeley's guest is NHS doctor and former keyboardist for The Fall Marcia Schofield, who chooses music by Part, Tavener, John Adams, Scriabin and Bartok. M Berkeley: The Wakeful Poet (from Music from Chaucer) (Berkeley/OUP) 0’26 Beaux Arts Brass Quintet Arvo Pärt : Tabula Rasa (excerpt) ECM 8177642 – Track 4 Gidon Kremer, Tatjana Grindenko (violins), Alfred Schnittke (prepared piano) Lithuanian Chamber Orchestra/Saulus Sondeckis Pärt/ Universal Edition Dur : 6’42 Bach : 3rd Mvt ‘Aria’ from Suite no 5 in G minor BWV 1070 ‘The Orchestral Suites’ PHILIPS 4329692 – CD 1 Track 17 Kammerorchester C Ph E Bach/Peter Schreier Dur : 3’09 Scriabin : Prometheus (excerpt) DG 4596472 – Track 5 Anatol Ugorski (piano), Chicago Symphony Orchestra & Chorus/Pierre Boulez Dur : 3’42 John Tavener : Part III from ‘The Protecting Veil’ Sony Classical SK62821 – Track 3 Yo Yo Ma (cello), Baltimore Symphony Orchestra/David Zinman Taverner/Chester Music Dur : 3’39 Glenn Gould : ‘The Idea of North’ from ‘Solitude Trilogy’ CBC PSCD20033 – CD1 – Track 1 ‘prepared and produced by Glenn Gould’ Dur : 2’52 Bartok : Bluebeard’s Castle – Door 4 – The Garden Decca 4435712 – Track 5 Christa Ludwig (Judith), Walter Berry (Bluebeard), London Symphony Orchestra/Istvan Kertesz Dur : 5’04 John Adams : On the Transmigration of Souls (excerpt) Nonesuch 7559 79816-2 – Track 1 New York Philharmonic/Lorin Maazel New York Choral ArtistsDur : 4’57 Tom Waits : What’s He Building ? Mule Variations EPITAPH 65472 – Track 8 (Waits/ASCAP) Dur : 3’20