Marcia Schofield

Synopsis

Michael Berkeley's guest is NHS doctor and former keyboardist for The Fall Marcia Schofield, who chooses music by Part, Tavener, John Adams, Scriabin and Bartok.

M Berkeley: The Wakeful Poet (from Music from Chaucer)
(Berkeley/OUP) 0’26
Beaux Arts Brass Quintet

Arvo Pärt : Tabula Rasa (excerpt)
ECM 8177642 – Track 4
Gidon Kremer, Tatjana Grindenko (violins), Alfred Schnittke (prepared piano)
Lithuanian Chamber Orchestra/Saulus Sondeckis
Pärt/ Universal Edition Dur : 6’42

Bach : 3rd Mvt ‘Aria’ from Suite no 5 in G minor BWV 1070
‘The Orchestral Suites’ PHILIPS 4329692 – CD 1 Track 17
Kammerorchester C Ph E Bach/Peter Schreier Dur : 3’09

Scriabin : Prometheus (excerpt)
DG 4596472 – Track 5
Anatol Ugorski (piano), Chicago Symphony Orchestra & Chorus/Pierre Boulez
Dur : 3’42

John Tavener : Part III from ‘The Protecting Veil’
Sony Classical SK62821 – Track 3
Yo Yo Ma (cello), Baltimore Symphony Orchestra/David Zinman
Taverner/Chester Music Dur : 3’39

Glenn Gould : ‘The Idea of North’ from ‘Solitude Trilogy’
CBC PSCD20033 – CD1 – Track 1
‘prepared and produced by Glenn Gould’ Dur : 2’52

Bartok : Bluebeard’s Castle – Door 4 – The Garden
Decca 4435712 – Track 5
Christa Ludwig (Judith), Walter Berry (Bluebeard),
London Symphony Orchestra/Istvan Kertesz Dur : 5’04

John Adams : On the Transmigration of Souls (excerpt)
Nonesuch 7559 79816-2 – Track 1
New York Philharmonic/Lorin Maazel
New York Choral ArtistsDur : 4’57

Tom Waits : What’s He Building ?
Mule Variations EPITAPH 65472 – Track 8
(Waits/ASCAP)
Dur : 3’20

Broadcast

1. Sun 26 Oct 2008
   12:00
   BBC Radio 3