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Stephen Fry

Sunday 26 December 2004 12:00-13:00 (Radio 3)

Michael Berkeley's Christmas guest is the multi-talented Stephen Fry. Unlike many guests on Private Passions, he prefers upbeat, cheerful music, and his unusually eclectic tastes range from Mozart, Britten and Wagner to Nina Simone, Herb Alpert and the Tijuana Brass, and The Bonzo Dog Doo Dah Band.

Duration:

1 hour

Playlist

Sig: M. Berkeley: The Wakeful Poet (from Music from Chaucer) (pub. OUP) 
Beaux-Arts Brass Quintet 
BBQ  BBQ 003  T.10

Beethoven: Egmont Overture, Op.84 
LPO/Sir Adrian Boult 
Vanguard  SVC 13  T.7

Vivian Stanshall: The Intro and the Outro 
The Bonzo Dog Doo Dah Band 
Right  RIGHT 010  T.3

Mozart: Pa-pa-ge-na (from Die Zauberflöte, Act II) 
Walter Berry (Papageno)/Ruth-Margret Pütz (Papagena)/Philharmonia Orchestra/Otto Klemperer 
EMI  CMS 567388 2  Disc 2  T.17
Jankowski: A Walk in the Black Forest 
Herb Alpert and the Tijuana Brass 
A&M  AML 965  S.2  B.5

Britten: So Abram rose, and clave the wood (from War Requiem, Op.66) 
Peter Pears (tenor)/Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau (baritone)/Highgate School Choir/Bach Choir/
London Symphony Chorus and Orchestra/Benjamin Britten 
Decca  414 383-2  Disc 1  T.13

Taylor & Lamb: I wish I knew how it would feel to be free 
Nina Simone 
RCA  ND 90376  T.9

Alkan: La chanson de la folle au bord de la mer, Op.31/8 
Ronald Smith (piano) 
APR  APR 7031  Disc 1  T.2

8. Wagner: Isoldes Liebestod (from Tristan und Isolde, Act III, Scene 3) 
Kirsten Flagstad (Isolde)/Philharmonia Orchestra/Wilhelm Furtwängler
EMI  CDS 747322 8  Disc 4  T.5




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