Private Passions - Rick Wakeman

Michael Berkeley's guest is rock star Rick Wakeman, keyboard player with the rock group Yes, film composer, session musician for artists such as Elton John, David Bowie, Cat Stevens and Ozzy Osbourne as well as a familiar guest on TV shows such as Grumpy Old Men and Have I Got News for You. He intended to become a concert pianist, and his musical choices reflect a deep love of music from Eastern Europe, with works by Prokofiev, Shostakovich, Smetana and Arvo Part. Sig M Berkeley: The Wakeful Poet (from Music from Chaucer) (Berkeley/OUP) Beaux Arts Brass Quintet 0’26 Albert Franz Doppler : Music from ‘Fantaisie Pastorale Hongroise’ Op.26 FLAUTA VIRTUOSA UNICORNIO UN-CD8020 – Track 1 (excerpt) Niurka Gonzalez (flute), Maria del Henar Navarro (piano) 4’31 Ivan Rebroff : Song of the Volga Boatman ‘The Very Best of…’ BBC BBCCD778 – Track 3 arr Boris Jojic/SBK Songs, EMI Music Pub co Ltd 4’24 Prokofiev : Music from ‘Ivan the Terrible’ UDSACD4003 – Track 4 St Louis Symphony Orchestra & Chorus/Leonard Slatkin 3’34 Shostakovich : 4th Mvt from ‘Concerto for Piano, Trumpet & Strings in C minor’ EMI CDC5553612 – Track 8 Mikhail Rudy (piano), Ole Edvard Antonsen (trumpet), Berlin Philharmonic/Mariss Jansons 6’37 Debussy : ‘Le vent dans la plaine’ from Preludes Book 1 ‘Preludes’ AVM CLASSICS AVMLD1012 – Track 3 Jeni Zaharieva (piano) 2’12 Smetana : 4th mvt from Quartet no 1 in E minor String Quartets Calliope CAL 9690 – Track 4 Talich Quartet (Petr Messiereur, Jan Kvapil – violins, Jan Talich – viola, Evzen Rattai – cello) 5’45 Arvo Pärt : Summa Virgin Classics 72435450126 – Track 1 Estonia Symphony Orchestra/Paavo Jarvi 4’51 Life on Mars (excerpt) Hunky Dory EMI RCA PD84623 – Track 4 David Bowie feat Rick Wakeman Bowie/ASCAP 1’19