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Michael Berkeley talks to comedian Sue Perkins, who is one half of comedy duo Mel and Sue and stars with Giles Coren in the ´óÏó´«Ã½2 series The Supersizers Go. She revealed a totally new area of expertise when she won the ´óÏó´«Ã½'s Maestro conducting competition in 2008. Her great passion is the music of Benjamin Britten, and her other choices include a Mozart aria, excerpts from Pergolesi's Stabat mater and the finale from Stravinsky's The Firebird.

M Berkeley The Wakeful Poet (Music from Chaucer) (pub OUP)
Beaux-Arts Brass Quintet
BBQ BBQ 003 T10 00 25

Britten Sunday Morning and The Storm (from the 4 Sea Interludes from Peter Grimes)
LSO/André Previn
Benjamin Britten EMI 764736-2 T14 [03 47] & 16 [04 25] 08 12

Mozart Ach ich fühls...(Pamina's aria from The Magic Flute, Act 2)
Ruth Ziesack (Pamina), Vienna PO/Georg Solti
Mozart DECCA 433 210-2 CD2 T8 03 55

Britten Dies Irae (from the Sinfonia da Requiem)
CBSO/Simon Rattle
Benjamin Britten EMI CDC 555394-2 T24 05 22

Stravinsky Finale from The Firebird Suite
Israel PO/Leonard Bernstein
Leonard Bernstein DG 477 5193 CD1 T7 03 25

Britten Interlude and Balulalow (from A Ceremony of Carols, Op.28)
Orlando Silkstone Carter (treble), Victoria Davies (harp), Choir of Christ Church Cathedral, Oxford/Stephen Darlington
Britten LAMMAS LAMM 146D T9 [04 31] T6 [01 15] 05 46

Pergolesi Stabat Mater and Quando Corpus (from the Stabat Mater)
Emma Kirkby (soprano), James Bowman (counter tenor), Academy of Ancient Music/Christopher Hogwood
Pergolesi Stabat Mater OISEAU LYRE 425 692-2 T1 [04 28] T12 [04 22] 08 50