Private Passions - William Fiennes

Michael Berkeley's guest is William Fiennes, award-winning author of The Snow Geese, whose latest book, The Music Room, is about his family and their ancestral home in Oxfordshire. A passionate music-lover, William's choices range from piano pieces by Bach, Schubert and Shostakovich to chamber music by Beethoven and Messiaen as well as a Bruckner motet and songs by Bob Dylan and Radiohead. Playlist: M Berkeley: The Wakeful Poet (Music from Chaucer) (pub OUP) Beaux-Arts Brass Quintet BBQ BBQ 003, Tr 10 00.25 Bach: Prelude No 3 in C sharp (The Well-Tempered Clavier, Book 2) Angela Hewitt (piano) Bach HYPERION CDS 44293 CD3, Tr 5 01.56 Shostakovich: Prelude No 5 in D (24 Preludes and Fugues) Keith Jarrett (piano) Shostakovich ECM 437 189-2 CD1, Tr 5 01.55 Radiohead: Kid A Kid A PARLOPHONE CDKIDA1, Tr 2 04.45 fade to Beethoven: String Quartet in A minor, Op 132 (Heiliger Dankgesang - excerpt from 3rd mvt) Emerson Quartet Beethoven DG CD6, Tr 3 06.11 Bruckner: Ave Maria Polyphony Stephen Layton (conductor) Bruckner HYPERION CDA 67629, Tr 1 04.04 Messiaen: Louange a l'immoralite de Jesus (Quartet for the End of Time) Tashi Messiaen RCA GD 87835, Tr 8 08.06 Bob Dylan: You're Gonna Make Me Lonesome When You Go (Blood on the Tracks) Blood on the Tracks CBS CD 69097, Tr 5 02.53 fades to Schubert: Piano Sonata in B flat, D960 (2nd mvt) Alfred Brendel (piano) Schubert: The Last Three Piano Sonatas PHILIPS 438 703-2 CD2, Tr 2 08.54.