Private Passions - MJ Cole

Michael Berkeley's guest is DJ, producer, remixer and garage artist MJ Cole, whose debut album, Sincere, became a best-seller. He now DJs regularly at festivals including Glastonbury and The Big Chill, and has worked as a remixer with Mariah Carey and Amy Winehouse, among others. A classically trained musician, he has chosen piano music by Tchaikovsky, Prokofiev and Rachmaninov, Ravel's String Quartet, John Adams's A Short Ride in a Fast Machine and music by Radiohead and Sting. Sig: M Berkeley: The Wakeful Poet (Music from Chaucer) (Berkeley/OUP) Beaux Arts Brass Quintet Duration: 0m26s MJ Cole: Sincere (excerpt) Talkin Loud Prolific Recordings TLD2LCO6521 Tr 10 Cole/Matrix Records Duration: 1m42s Tchaikovsky: Piano Concerto No 1 in B flat minor, Op 23 (3rd mvt) Martha Argerich (piano) Berlin Philharmonic Claudio Abbado (conductor) DG 4498162 Tr 3 Duration: 6m15s Ravel: String Quartet in F (2nd mvt) Belcea Quartet String Quartets EMI CDZ5740202 Tr 18 Duration: 6m00s John Adams: A Short Ride in a Fast Machine (Two Fanfares for Orchestra) San Francisco Symphony Orchestra Edo de Waart (conductor) Adams/Boosey and Hawkes Earbox (Nonesuch 7559794532), CD 6 Tr 2 Duration: 4m15s Rachmaninov: Prelude in C sharp minor, Op 3 No 2 Eldar Nebolsin (piano) Preludes NAXOS 8570327 Tr 1 Duration: 4m16s Radiohead: Nude Radiohead/Warner Chappell Music Pub Ltd In Rainbows XL XLCD324 Tr 3 Duration: 4m14s Prokofiev: Toccata, Op 11 Martha Argerich (piano) Argerich debut recital DG 44743020 Tr 4 Duration: 4m05s Michael Andrews: Carpathian Ridge (Donnie Darko soundtrack) Andrews/Elgonix Music/Sockeye Music inc BMI Donnie Darko SANCTUARY SANDP251 Tr 1 Duration: 1m33s Sting: Bring on the Night/When the World is Running Down (live) - excerpt Englishman in New York A&M AMCD431 Tr 3 Duration: 6ms47s.