Lee Hall
Michael Berkeley's guest is playwright Lee Hall. His musical choices include Alfred Deller singing Purcell and Maurizio Pollini playing Schumann, plus Conlon Nancarrow and Messiaen.
Michael Berkeley's guest today is the playwright Lee Hall, best known as the writer of the smash hit film and musical 'Billy Elliot', as well as the radio play 'Spoonface Steinberg' and the stage play 'The Pitmen Painters'. Some of his musical choices reflect his north-eastern origins, while others range from Alfred Deller singing Purcell and Maurizio Pollini playing Schumann to works by Conlon Nancarrow and Olivier Messiaen.
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Berkeley
The Wakeful Poet (Music from Chaucer)
Performer: Beaux-Arts Brass Quintet
- BBQ BBQ 003.
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Trad
Ma Bonney Lad
Performer: Kathleen Ferrier (contralto), Phyllis Spurr (piano)
- Kathleen Ferrier.
- DECCA 458 270-2.
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Conlon Nancarrow
Study for Player Piano No. 6
- Conlon Nancarrow.
- WERGO 286 168-2.
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Henry Purcell
Music for a While (from Oedipus)
Performer: Alfred Deller (counter tenor), William Christie (harpsichord), Wieland Kuijken (bass viol)
- HARMONIA MUNDI HM 90249.
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Attributed to John Hall of Sheffield Park
Hark! Hark! What news
Performers: Sung by the regulars of the Black Bull, Ecclesfield (from A People's Carol)
- A People's Carol.
- LEADER RECORDS LEE 4065.
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Mieczysław Weinberg
Prelude No. 1 (from 24 Preludes, Op 100)
Performer: Josef Feigelson (cello)
- NAXOS 8.572280.
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Trad
Bonnie Jeannie O'Bethelnie (also known as Glenlogie)
Performer: Dick Gaughan
- Gaughan.
- TOPIC TSCD 384.
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John Coltrane
Ascension (the opening)
- John Coltrane Ascension.
- IMPULSE 32XD-584.
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Robert Schumann
Im ruhigen tempo (No 1 from Gesänge der Frühe, Op 133)
Performer: Maurizio Pollini (piano)
- Schumann.
- DG 471 370-2.
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Olivier Messiaen
Louange de l'immortalité de Jésus (from the Quartet for the end of time)
Performer: Jean Pasquier (violin), Olivier Messiaen (piano)
- ACCORD 461 744-2.
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Harvey Brough
Lux aeterna (from Requiem in Blue)
- Private recording, used with permission.
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