Vincent Cable

Synopsis

Michael Berkeley's guest is Vincent Cable, deputy leader and chief economic spokesperson of the Liberal Democrat Party. A passionate music-lover, his choices include Mozart's D minor Piano Concerto, K466, played by Murray Perahia, and a selection of voices ranging from Luciano Pavarotti in Verdi's Requiem to Nicolai Gedda in Mozart's Don Giovanni and Jessye Norman in Strauss's Four Last Songs.

M Berkeley: The Wakeful Poet (Music from Chaucer) (pub OUP)
Beaux-Arts Brass Quintet
BBQ BBQ 003 Tr 10
Dur: 25s

Verdi: Ingemisco (Requiem)
Luciano Pavarotti (tenor)
Vienna Philharmonic
Georg Solti (conductor)
Luciano Pavarotti DECCA 530 102-2 Tr 8
Dur: 3m33s

Mozart: Romance (Piano Concerto No 20 in D minor, K466 - 2nd mvt)
English Concert Orchestra
Murray Perahia (piano)
Mozart SONY 82876872302 CD8 Tr 5
Dur: 4m18s

Anton Pann: Tatal Nostru
Angela Georghiou (soprano)
London Philharmonic Orchestra
Ion Mann (conductor)
Mysterium DECCA 466 10-2 Tr 7
Dur: 4m50s

Mozart: O Isis und Osiris (Die Zauberflote - Act 2)
Gottlob Frick (Sarastro)
Philharmonia Orchestra and Chorus
Otto Klemperer (conductor)
EMI 567388 CD2 Tr 3
Dur: 3m17s

Bellini: Ah! per sempre io ti perdei (I Puritani - Act 1)
Paul Cable (baritone)
Prague Philharmonia
James Sedares (conductor)
Private recording used with permission
Dur: 6m00s

Geoffrey Bowyer: Requiem aeternam (Pilgrim's Requiem)
Cantati Camerati
Teddington Choral Society
St Mary's Singers, Osterley
Geoffrey Bowyer (conductor)
Private recording used with permission
Dur: 5m12s

Mozart: Dalla sua pace (Don Giovanni - Act 1)
Don Ottavio ...... Gosta Winbergh (tenor)
Berlin Philharmonic
Herbert Von Karajan (conductor)
DG 419 179-2 CD1 Tr 24
Dur: 4m27s

Strauss: Beim Schlafengehen (Four Last Songs)
Jessye Norman (soprano)
Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra
Kurt Masur (conductor)
Strauss PHILIPS 464 742-2 Tr 3
Dur: 6m07s.

Broadcast

1. Sun 8 Nov 2009
   12:00
   BBC Radio 3