Howard Jacobson
Michael Berkeley talks to author Howard Jacobson, winner of the 2010 Man Booker Prize. His musical choices include Bach, Schubert, a duet from Bless the Bride, Lehar and Grainger.
In a programme recorded and first broadcast in 2002, Michael Berkeley talks to writer Howard Jacobson, whose latest novel 'The Finkler Question' has just won the 2010 Man Booker Prize. Renowned for his razor-sharp humour and irreverent wit, he has also written several works of non-fiction, including a book on the theory and history of comedy. His tastes in music, as revealed to Michael, are eclectic, ranging from a Bach cantata, a Schubert piano trio and operatic extracts by Mozart and Puccini to a duet from 'Bless the Bride', the waltz song from Lehar's 'The Merry Widow', and Percy Grainger's poignant setting of the sea shanty 'Shallow Brown'.
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Johann Sebastian Bach
Schlummert ein, ihr matten Augen (from Cantata No 82 Ich habe genug)
Performers: Janet Baker (mezzo soprano), Bath Festival Orchestra/Yehudi Menuhin
- EMI 7243 5 74284-2.
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Giacomo Puccini
Che gelida manina (from La boh猫me Act 1)
Performers: Jussi Bjoerling (tenor), RCA Victor Orchestra /Thomas Beecham
- EMI 7243 5 67750 2.
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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
L脿 ci darem la mano (from Don Giovanni Act 1, scene 3)
Performer: Graziella Sciutti (Zerlina), Eberhard Waechter (Don Giovanni), Philharmonia Orchestra/Carlo Maria Giulini
- EMI 7243 5 56232 2.
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Vivian Ellis
This is my lovely day (from Bless the Bride)
Performers: Lizbeth Webb and Georges Gu茅tary, Michael Collins (Musical Director)
- WORLD RECORDS SH 228.
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Franz Schubert
Andante un poco mosso (part of the 2nd movt from Piano Trio in B flat, D 898)
Performers: Jacques Thibaud (violin), Pablo Casals (cello) and Alfred Cortot (piano)
- EMI CDH 76058-2.
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Claudio Monteverdi
Ardo e scoprir
Performers: Boulanger Ensemble/Nadia Boulanger
- PEARL GEMM CD 9994.
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Emmerich K谩lm谩n
Lippen schweigen (Waltz song from The Merry Widow, Act 3)
Performers: Richard Tauber (tenor) Odeon-K眉nstler-Orchester/Erich Wolfgang Korngold
- EMI CDM 564654-2.
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Stewart/Gouldman
I'm not in love
Performers: 10cc
- POLYDOR 515 006 2.
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Percy Grainger
Shallow Brown
Performers: John Shirley Quirk (baritone) Ambrosian Singers, ECO/Benjamin Britten
- LONDON 425 159-2.
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- Sun 28 Nov 2010 12:00成人快手 Radio 3
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