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Michael Berkeley's guest is award-winning novelist and composer Amit Chaudhuri, who teaches creative writing at the University of East Anglia. Music informs much of his own writing, including his most recent novel The Immortals.

His choices range from a Beethoven piano sonata to the Gil Evans/Miles Davis take on Rodrigo's Concierto de Aranjuez, a song by Joni Mitchell and a variety of music from Chaudhuri's native India, including a setting of a Tagore poem sung by his mother, Bijoya Chaudhuri.

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

Beethoven: Piano Sonata in C minor, Op 13 (Pathétique - 1st movement, excerpt)
Stephen Kovacevich (piano)
Beethoven Piano Sonatas EMI 215314-2 CD1 T1
Dur: 5m 21s

Rodrigo, arr Gil Evans: Concierto de Aranjuez
Miles Davis and his band/Gil Evans
Sketches of Spain COLUMBIA CK 65142 T1
Dur: 7m 21s

Joni Mitchell Hejira (from the album Misses)
Misses REPRISE 9362-46358-2 T14
Dur: 6m 39s

William Bolcom The Lamb & The Shepherd (Songs of Innocence and Experience)
Measha Brueggergosman (mezzo soprano)
Peter 'Madcat' Ruth (vocal)
University of Michigan School of Music SO/Leonard Slatkin
Bolcom NAXOS 8559216-2 CD1 T3 & 4
Dur: 5m 26s

Raga Kalavati
Nazakat & Salamat Ali Khan (singers)
Ustad Allah Dutta (tabla)
Ustad Zahoori Khan (sarangi)
LP Ragas Darbari and Kalavati HMV CLP 1308 S2
Dur: 4m 3s

Subinoy Roy: Bahe Nirantara Ananta (Tagore)
Songs of Rabindranath HINDUSTHAN 9601 T2
Dur: 2m 48s

Bijoya Chaudhuri: Esho nipabane (Tagore)
CASSETTE Songs of Rabindranath HMV FPHVS 843821 S2 T1
Dur: 3m 4 s.

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