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This Week's Guest:
Ian Bostridge
26 October 2008
Repeated
31 October 2008 |
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Ian's Choice |
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Kirsty Young's castaway this week is the tenor Ian Bostridge.
He is regarded as one of the great Lieder singers of our time and has delighted audiences in opera houses and concert halls the world over.
But for him, music wasn’t a straightforward career choice - he started out as a historian and for years led two parallel lives – spending term times at Oxford, writing about witchcraft and magic, while in the holidays he’d throw himself into an operatic production.
Eventually, his book on witchcraft was finished just before his debut with the English National Opera. Magic appeals to people in a way that is both mysterious and irrational and so it is, he says, not so different to music. |
1. Das Wander- Wandering
Performer Dietrich Fischer Dieskau
Composer Schubert
CD Title Schubert: Die Schone Mullerin
Track 1
Label EMI
Rec No CDC7 47173 2
2. The Countessa’s Aria from the Marriage of Figaro
Performer Gundula Janowitz
Composer Mozart
CD Title The Marriage of Figaro
Track Cd2 trk 26
Label DEUTSCHE GRAMMOPHON
Rec No 449 728-2
3. Part of the last movement of the Piano Sonata No.31 in A flat
Performer Artur Schnabel
Composer Beethoven
CD Title The Piano Library: Artur Schnabel
Track 7
Label PL Rec No 216
4. Don’t Think Twice, It’s All Right
Performer Bob Dylan
Composer Bob Dylan
CD Title The Freewheelin’ Bob Dylan
Track 7
Label CBS
Rec No CD32390
5. Now, until the break of day
Performer Deller, Pears, Tear with Britten conducting.
Composer Benjamin Britten
CD Title A Midsummer Nights Dream
Track 21
Label London
Rec No 425 664 2
6. The Opening of Schumann’s Piano Quintet in E flat
Performer The Beaux Arts Trio with Samuel Rhodes & Dolf Bettelheim
Composer Schumann
CD Title Schumann: Piano Quartet…
Track 1
Label PHILIPS Rec No 4207912
7. The Quintet from the end of Thomas Ades’s opera The Tempest -2007
Performer Members of the Royal Opera House
Composer Thomas Ades
RADIO THREE ARCHIVE – NOT COMMERCIALLY AVAILABLE
8. Praise God in All Lands
Performer Emma Kirby with the English Baroque Soloists conducted by John Eliot Gardiner
Composer Bach
CD Title Bach: D Major Magnificat…
Track 1
Label PHILIPS
Rec No 4114582
Record: Piano Sonata No.31 in A flat
Book: War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy
Luxury: A solar computer loaded with pictures of my family and friends |
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