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Michael Berkeley's guest is screenwriter and director Terence Davies, whose films include Distant Voices, Still Lives, set in his native city of Liverpool, and an adaptation of Edith Wharton's novel The House of Mirth, starring Gillian Anderson. Music has always played a crucial part in Davies's life, and his choices include songs from musicals Singin' in the Rain and Gypsy, the voice of Kathleen Ferrier and symphonies by Sibelius, Shostakovich and Bruckner.

Sig M. Berkeley: The Wakeful Poet (from Music from Chaucer) (pub. OUP) 0.26
Beaux-Arts Brass Quintet BBQ BBQ 003 T.10

1. Freed and Brown: Singin' in the rain 2.53
Gene Kelly, MGM Studio Orchestra/Lennie Hayton MGM CDP 7933002 T.1
Singin' in the Rain - film soundtrack

2. Trad: Blow the wind southerly 2.18
Kathleen Ferrier (contralto) Decca 4171922 T.3
Blow the wind southerly

3. Rodgers and Hart: Ten cents a dance 3.06
Doris Day, Orchestra/Percy Faith Columbia CK 47503 T.8 (exc.)
Love me or leave me - film soundtrack

4. Sibelius: Symphony No.5 (opening of 3rd mvt) 3.36
Philharmonia Orchestra/Vladimir Ashkenazy Decca 4735902 Disc 4 T.3 (exc.)
Sibelius - The Symphonies

5. Shostakovich: Symphony No.10 (opening of 1st mvt) 5.04
Berlin PO/Herbert von Karajan DG 4297162 T.1 (exc.)
Shostakovich Symphony 10

6. Styne and Sondheim: You gotta have a gimmick 4.17
Faith Dane, Roxanne Arlen, Betty Bruce, Orchestra/Frank Perkins Rhino 081227387327 T.13
Gypsy soundtrack

7. Bernard Herrmann: Psycho - opening titles 2.04
National PO/Bernard Herrmann Unicorn UKCD 2021 T.1
Psycho

8. Schubert: Nacht und Traume, D.827 3.31
Ian Bostridge (tenor), Julius Drake (piano) EMI 5563472 T.10
Schubert Lieder

9. Bruckner: Symphony No.9 in D minor (conclusion of 3rd mvt) 7.55
Berlin PO/Eugen Jochum DG 4295142 T.3 (exc.)
Bruckner Symphony 9.

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