My Kind of Song - Sir Richard Rodney Bennett
Tuesday 4 April 2006 16:00-17:00 (Radio 3)
My Kind of Song: Iain Burnside's guest is versatile British composer/performer Sir Richard Rodney Bennett. His choices of song range from Purcell, Walton and Webern to Gershwin and Harold Arlen.
Playlist
Bennett - Let’s go and live in the country
Richard Rodney Bennett (piano & vocal)
Lush Life CD ODE 1292
Warlock - Sleep
John Mark Ainsley (tenor)
Roger Vignoles (piano)
Hyperion CDA66736
Purcell - Music for a While
Catherine Bott (soprano)
Richard Egarr (harpsichord)
Mark Levy (bass viol)
Oiseau Lyre 443 699 2
Walton - Old Sir Faulk
Felicity Lott (soprano)
Graham Johnson (piano)
Chandos CHAN 8722
Bennett - Sweet Isabell (A Garland for Marjorie Fleming)
Sarah Leonard (soprano)
Malcolm Martineau (piano)
SOMM CD213
Britten - Pastoral (Serenade)
Peter Pears (tenor)
Dennis Brain (horn)
Boyd Neel String Orchestra
Conductor Benjamin Britten
PEARL GEMM CD 9177
Webern - Der Tag ist vergangen (4 Lieder, Op 12)
Christiane Oelze (soprano)
Eric Schneider (piano)
DG 447 103 2
Debussy - L’echelonnement des haies
Lisa Milne (soprano)
Iain Burnside (piano)
BLACK BOX BBM1073
Ravel - La-bas vers l’eglise (5 Melodies Populaires Grecques)
Elly Ameling (soprano)
Rudolf Jansen (piano)
Erato ECD 75324
Gershwin - Someone to Watch Over Me
Ella Fitzgerald
Ellis Larkins (piano)
LP MEMOIR MOIR 111
Bennett - Wee Willie Winkie (Songs Before Sleep)
Jonathan Lemalu (baritone)
Michael Hampton (piano)
BBC Recording
Arlen - I Had Myself A True Love
Barbara Streisand
Columbia 474909 2
Poulenc - “C”
Hughes Cuenod (tenor)
Geoffrey Parsons (piano)
Nimbus 5027
Bennett - Goodbye for Now (Four Jazz Songs)
Richard Rodney Bennett (piano & vocal)
BBC MM RRB 1
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