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Michael Berkeley's guest is award-winning theatre director Deborah Warner, who has brought a new stage production of Handel's Messiah to London's Coliseum. It is to be broadcast by ´óÏó´«Ã½ Radio 3 as the culmination of a year-long celebration in 2009 of Handel as one of Radio 3's Composers of the Year.

M Berkeley: The Wakeful Poet (Music from Chaucer)
Beaux Arts Brass Quintet
(Berkeley/OUP)
Duration: 0m26s

Once in Royal David's City
(words Mrs C F Alexander, music H J Gauntlett, harm A H Mann, descant Willcocks)
King's College Choir, Cambridge
David Willcocks (director)
Christmas at Kings EMI VTDCD933, CD 1 Track 1
Duration: 5m12s

Mozart: Don Giovanni (Opening from Act 1, excerpt)
Donna Anna ...... Amanda Halgrimson (soprano)
Don Giovanni ...... Andreas Schmidt (bass-baritone)
Leporello ....... Gregory Yurisich (baritone)
Il Commendatore ...... Alastair Miles (bass)
London Classical Players
Roger Norrington (conductor)
EMI CD27548592, CD 1 Track 1
Duration: 3m04s

Irish Tune, arr. Britten: The Salley Gardens
(Trad, arr. Britten/words: WB Yeats)
Ian Bostridge (tenor)
Julius Drake (piano)
English Songbook EMI CDC5568302 Tr 18
Duration: 2m27s

Lewis Carroll: The Door Led Right into A Kitchen (Alice in Wonderland)
Fiona Shaw (reader)
NAXOS AUDIOBOOK NA213712, CD 1 Tr 6
Duration: 4m00s

Purcell: Overture; When I Am Laid In Earth (Dido and Aeneas)
Dido ...... Veronique Gens (soprano)
Les Arts Florissants
William Christie (conductor)
ERATO 4509984772 Trs 1, 25
Duration: 1m56s/3m46s

Schubert: Impromptu No 3 in G flat, Op 90
Alfred Brendel (piano)
PHILIPS 4222372 Tr 3
Duration: 6m03s

Berg: Wozzeck (Act 3, Scs 2-3 transition)
Wozzeck ...... Franz Grundheber (baritone)
Marie ...... Hildegard Behrens (soprano)
Vienna Philharmonic
Claudio Abbado (conductor)
DG 423 588-2/589-2, CD 2 Trs 8-9
Duration: 2m53s

Handel: He Shall Feed His Flock (Messiah)
Carolyn Sampson (soprano)
Catherine Wyn-Rogers (alto)
The Sixteen
Harry Christophers (conductor)
CORO COR16062 Tr 21
Duration: 5m38s.

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