My Kind of Song
Tuesday 12 July 2005 16:00-17:00 (Radio 3)
My Kind of Song: Iain Burnside talks to conductor Jeffrey Tate about his favourite singers, including Janet Baker, Peter Pears, Eartha Kitt and Charles Trenet.
Playlist
Brahms – Die Mainacht Op. 43 No. 2
Janet Baker (soprano)
Martin Isepp (piano)
SAGA SCD 9001
CD 1 Track 13
Dur: 3:46
Album title: Janet Baker sings Schumann, Schubert & Brahms
Eartha Kitt – Just an old Fashioned Girl (Marve Fisher) [Pub. Campbell Connelly & co ltd.]
RCA CD 90107
CD 1 Track 1
Dur: 2:51
Album title: Eartha Kitt – 16 Top Tracks
Noel Coward – Nina
PAST CD 7840
CD1 Track 13
Dur: 4:07
Album title: Noel Coward – On the Air
Canteloube – Bailero from Chansons d’Auvergne
Kiri te Kanawa (soprano)
English Chamber Orchestra/ Jeffrey Tate
Decca 410 004-2
CD1 Track 2
Dur: 6:39
Album title: Canteloube – Chants d’Auvergne
I’ll be Seeing you (Fain-Kahal) – Billie Holiday
VERVE 527 777-2
CD1 Track 1
Dur: 3:28
Album title: Billie Holiday – I’ll be Seeing You
Britten – “But that Night” from Nocturne, Op. 60
Pears/Tuckwell/Murray/Lord/Peyer/Ellis/Waterhouse/Blyth
Decca 417 153-2
CD1 Track 23
Dur: 3:03
Album title: Britten – Serenade/Les Illuminations/ Nocturne
Charles Trenet – “La Mer”
EMI CDP 794464 2
CD1 Track 20
Dur : 3:20
Album title : The Extraordinary Garden - The Very Best of Charles Trenet
Puccini – "Ah, Mimi, tu piu non torni" from Act 4 La Boheme (extract)
RCA Victor Orchestra/Beecham/Bjorling/Los Angeles/Merrill/ Reardon/Tozzi/Amara/Corena
EMI CDC 747235/36 2
CD 2 Track 10
Dur: 2:37
Album title: Puccini – La Boheme
Gene Kelly - Singing in the Rain (Brown-Freed)
MGM studio orchestra
BMCD 7008
CD1 Track 1
Dur: 3:03
Album title: The Hollywood Golden Years – Greatest Original Soundtracks