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This Week's Guest:
Arnold Wesker
17 December 2006
Repeated
22 December 2006
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Arnold's Choice |
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Photograph by Dan Wesker
Kirsty Young's castaway this week is the playwright Sir Arnold Wesker.
He's a prolific writer and has penned more than forty plays as well as books of poetry, short stories, children's tales and most recently a novel. But he first came to prominence in the late 1950s as one of the group of Angry Young Men; dramatists who made their art out of the stuff of everyday life.
He was the son of Jewish communists and was brought up in the East End of London in the 1930s. He remembers being taken on marches and demonstrations and says that memories of Cable Street, when Oswald Mosley was prevented from marching his blackshirts through predominantly Jewish areas of London, weighed heavily in his home.
His background strongly informed his writing and his first five plays were all staged at the Royal Court Theatre. He says that even today, he must write something each day as a way of justifying his existence - even if it is only his daily diary entry. |
1.Huapango
Performer Orquesta Sinfonica De Minerai conducted by Herrera De La Fuente
Composer Pablo Moncayo
CD Title Herrera De La Fuente: Works by Moncayo
Track 1
Label IMP
Rec No: MCD63
2.Oratorio Yamato Taker
Composer Shigeaki Saegusa
JAPANESE INPORT ONLY
Rec No:TOCZ 9047/48
3.Magnificat in D Major
Performer Venceslava Hruba-Freiberger, Barbara Bornemann, Peter Schreier, Olaf Bar
Composer CPE Bach
CD Title Magnificat
Track 7
Label BERLIN CLASSICS
Rec No:0110011
4.The end of Schoenberg’s Gurrelieder
Performer The Radio Symphony Orchestra and Choir of Berlin
Composer Schoenberg
CD Title Schoenberg:Gurrelieder
Track Cd2 trk 11
Label DECCA
Rec No:4303212
5.Shone with the Sun
Performer Katina Kangaris –violins Fiona Brice, Alice Butcher, Cello – Rebecca Todd, Piano Megan Stewart
Composer Written by Ben Till with lyrics by Arnold Wesker
CD Title Shone with the Sun
Track1
Label DEMO ONLY
6.The Presentation of the Rose from Strauss’s Der Rosenkavalier
Performer Christa Ludwig and Teresa Stich-Randall with the Philharmonia Orchestra conducted by Herbert von Karajan
Composer Strauss
CD Title Der Rosenkavalier
Track Cd2 trk 4
Label EMI
Rec No:CDS5562422
7.Dancin’ on the Ceiling
Performer Lionel Richie
Composer Lionel Richie, Carlos Rios & Michael Frenchik
CD Title Back to Front (Best of Lionel Ritchie)
Track 9
Label Motown
Rec No:5300182
8.Cryin’
PerformerJoe Satriani
ComposerJoe Satriani
CD Title The Extremist
Track 4
Label Relativity
Rec No:4716722
Record: Gurrelieder
Book: Remembrance of Things Past - Proust
Luxury: Supplies of pen and paper
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