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Mark Gatiss

Michael Berkeley meets actor and writer Mark Gatiss. His musical choices include excerpts from works by Vaughan Williams, Wagner, Offenbach, Cole Porter and Leonard Bernstein.

Today Michael Berkeley meets the actor and writer Mark Gatiss, who has starred in many TV comedy series and dramas including 'The League of Gentlemen', 'Nighty Night', 'Dr Who' and 'The Crooked House'. His musical passions include Vaughan William's Symphony No.6, the end of Wagner's 'Tristan und Isolde', the Barcarolle from Offenbach's opera 'Tales of Hoffmann', and songs from Cole Porter's 'Kiss Me Kate' and Bernstein's 'Candide'.

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Sun 7 Mar 2010 12:00
成人快手 Radio 3

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Music Played

  • Michael Berkeley

    The Wakeful Poet (Music from Chaucer)

    Performer: Beaux-Arts Brass Quintet

    • BBQ BBQ 003.

  • Ralph Vaughan Williams

    Symphony No 6 in E minor (1st movement, Allegro)

    Performer: LPO/Sir Adrian Boult

    • Vaughan Williams.
    • EMI 747537-2.

  • eden ahbez

    Nature Boy

    Performer: Dick Haymes (with The Song Spinners)

    • This is always.
    • EMPRESS RAJCD 907.

  • Richard Wagner - Liebestod (from Tristan und Isolde, Act III)

    Performer: Margaret Price (Isolde), Dresden Staatskapelle Orchestra/Carlos Kleiber

  • Henry Purcell

    "What power art thou?" (The Cold Genius from King Arthur, Act III)

    Performer: Stephen Varcoe (The Cold Genius), The English Baroque Soloists/Sir John Eliot Gardiner

    • Purcell.
    • ERATO 4509-96552-2.

  • Mikl贸s R贸zsa - Auf Wiedersehen (from The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes)

    Performer: Lucie Svehlov谩 (violin), City of Prague SO/Nic Raine

  • Jacques Offenbach

    Barcarolle (Prelude to Act IV from The Tales of Hoffman)

    Performer: Orchestra of Lyon Orchestra/Kent Nagano

    • The Tales of Hoffman.
    • ERATO 0630-14330-2.

  • Leonard Bernstein

    Make Our Garden Grow (from Candide)

    Performer: Robert Rounseville (Candide), Barbara Cook (Cuenegonde), Original Broadway Cast, conducted by Samuel Krachmalnick

    • Candide.
    • SONY SK 48017.

  • Cole Porter

    So In Love (from Kiss me Kate)

    Performer: Marin Mazzie (Lilli Vanessi), New Broadway Cast recording, conducted by Paul Gemignani

    • Kiss me Kate DRG 12988.

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  • Sun 7 Mar 2010 12:00
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