Private Passions - Peter Kosminsky

Michael Berkeley talks to Peter Kosminsky, director of award-winning TV dramas tackling highly controversial social and political issues such as child abuse (No Child of Mine), the Balkan and Iraq wars (Warriors, Government Inspector) and Muslim extremism (Britz). His musical choices include Beethoven's Pastoral Symphony, Mozart's Requiem, Philip Glass's The Photographer and Bruch's Kol Nidrei. M Berkeley The Wakeful Poet (Music from Chaucer) (pub OUP) 00 25 Beaux-Arts Brass Quintet BBQ BBQ 003 T10 Beethoven Symphony No 6 in F, Op 68 (Pastoral) 1st movement, The awakening of pleasant feelings on arriving in the coutryside Philharmonia Orchestra/Herbert Von Karajan Beethoven EMI CMS 7633102-2 CD4 T1 09 17 Philip Glass The Photographer (Act I: A Gentleman’s Honor) Philip Glass Ensemble The Photographer SONY SMK 73684 T1 03 16 Elgar Cello Concerto in E minor, Op 85 (1st movement, Adagio – Moderato) Paul Tortelier (cello), RPO/Sir Charles Groves Tortelier – a celebration RPO 8012 T1 07 26 Jocelyn Pook Oppenheimer (from Flood) Flood VENTURE CDVE944 T4 05 29 Mozart Requiem, K626 (Lacrimosa) Chorus and Orchestra of ASMF/Sir Neville Marriner Mozart Requiem PHILIPS 432 087-2 T8 03 33 Mike Westbrook I See Thy Form Phil Minton (vocals); pupils from the Gospel Oak Primary School, London; The Mike Westbrook Brass Band The Westbrook Blake IMPETUS IMPCD 18013 T2 03 58 Bruch Kol Nidrei, Op 47 Pierre Fournier (cello), Orchestre des Concerts Lamoureux/Jean Martinon Lalo DG 457 761-2 T7 05 00