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Private Passions

Dame Judi Dench

SundayÌý3ÌýOctoberÌý2004Ìý12:00-13:00Ìý(Radio 3)

Today Michael Berkeley explores the musical private passions of Dame Judi Dench, one of Britain's best-loved actresses. Internationally renowned for stage, film and TV roles ranging from Shakespearian heroines to Queen Victoria in Mrs Brown, Elizabeth I in Shakespeare in Love, Iris Murdoch in Iris and M in the recent James Bond films, her choices today include works by Bach, Bernstein, Stravinsky, Rachmaninov and Sir Peter Maxwell Davies.

Duration:

1 hour

Playlist

M Berkeley
The Wakeful Poet (Music from Chaucer)
Beaux-Arts Brass QuintetÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌý
BBQ BBQ 003 T10

Bernstein
Psalm 23 and Psalm 2 (vv 1-4) (from Chichester Psalms)
John Bogart (alto), Camerata Singers, New York PO/Leonard Bernstein
SONY SMK 60595 T5ÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌý

Stravinsky
The Rite of Spring (opening)
Columbia SO/Igor Stravinsky
SONY SM3K 46291 CD2 T16-18ÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌý

Shakespeare
When in disgrace with fortune and men’s eyes (Sonnet 29)
Sir John Gielgud
LP ARGO SPA 573 S2 B1ÌýÌý

Miles Davis
Blue in Green from Kind of Blue
Miles Davis (trumpet), Cannonball Adderley (alto), John Coltrane (tenor), Bill Evans (piano), Paul Chambers (bass), Jimmy Cobb (drums)
COLUMBIA LEGACY CK 64935 T3ÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌý

John Rutter
What sweeter music
Choir of King’s College, Cambridge/Stephen Cleobury
EMI 5 56605-2 T9ÌýÌýÌýÌýÌý

Bach
Brandenburg Concerto No 1 (3rd movement)
The English Concert/Trevor Pinnock
ARCHIV 423 492-2 CD1 T3ÌýÌýÌý
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Maxwell Davies
An Orkney Wedding, with Sunrise
George MacIlwham (bagpipes), RPO/Sir Peter Maxwell Davies
COLLINS 14442 T16ÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌý

RachmaninovÌý
Piano Concerto No 3 in D minor, Op 30 (opening of the 1st movement, allegro ma non tanto)
Vladimir Ashkenazy (piano), LSO/André Previn
DECCA 473 251-2 CD2 T1ÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌý




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