William Fiennes
Michael Berkeley's guest is writer William Fiennes, who chooses piano pieces by Bach, Schubert and Shostakovich, chamber music by Beethoven and Messiaen, and a Bruckner motet.
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
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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
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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.
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