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Vincent Cable

Michael Berkeley's guest is Vincent Cable, deputy leader and chief economic spokesperson of the Liberal Democrats. He chooses music by Mozart, plus Pavarotti and Nicolai Gedda.

Michael Berkeley's guest is Vincent Cable, deputy leader and chief economic spokesperson of the Liberal Democrat Party. A passionate music-lover, his choices include Mozart's D minor Piano Concerto, K466, played by Murray Perahia, and a selection of voices ranging from Luciano Pavarotti in Verdi's Requiem to Nicolai Gedda in Mozart's Don Giovanni and Jessye Norman in Strauss's Four Last Songs.

M Berkeley: The Wakeful Poet (Music from Chaucer) (pub OUP)
Beaux-Arts Brass Quintet
BBQ BBQ 003 Tr 10
Dur: 25s

Verdi: Ingemisco (Requiem)
Luciano Pavarotti (tenor)
Vienna Philharmonic
Georg Solti (conductor)
Luciano Pavarotti DECCA 530 102-2 Tr 8
Dur: 3m33s

Mozart: Romance (Piano Concerto No 20 in D minor, K466 - 2nd mvt)
English Concert Orchestra
Murray Perahia (piano)
Mozart SONY 82876872302 CD8 Tr 5
Dur: 4m18s

Anton Pann: Tatal Nostru
Angela Georghiou (soprano)
London Philharmonic Orchestra
Ion Mann (conductor)
Mysterium DECCA 466 10-2 Tr 7
Dur: 4m50s

Mozart: O Isis und Osiris (Die Zauberflote - Act 2)
Gottlob Frick (Sarastro)
Philharmonia Orchestra and Chorus
Otto Klemperer (conductor)
EMI 567388 CD2 Tr 3
Dur: 3m17s

Bellini: Ah! per sempre io ti perdei (I Puritani - Act 1)
Paul Cable (baritone)
Prague Philharmonia
James Sedares (conductor)
Private recording used with permission
Dur: 6m00s

Geoffrey Bowyer: Requiem aeternam (Pilgrim's Requiem)
Cantati Camerati
Teddington Choral Society
St Mary's Singers, Osterley
Geoffrey Bowyer (conductor)
Private recording used with permission
Dur: 5m12s

Mozart: Dalla sua pace (Don Giovanni - Act 1)
Don Ottavio ...... Gosta Winbergh (tenor)
Berlin Philharmonic
Herbert Von Karajan (conductor)
DG 419 179-2 CD1 Tr 24
Dur: 4m27s

Strauss: Beim Schlafengehen (Four Last Songs)
Jessye Norman (soprano)
Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra
Kurt Masur (conductor)
Strauss PHILIPS 464 742-2 Tr 3
Dur: 6m07s.

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Sun 8 Nov 2009 12:00

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