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Michael Berkeley's guest is DJ, producer, remixer and garage artist MJ Cole, whose debut album, Sincere, became a best-seller. He now DJs regularly at festivals including Glastonbury and The Big Chill, and has worked as a remixer with Mariah Carey and Amy Winehouse, among others. A classically trained musician, he has chosen piano music by Tchaikovsky, Prokofiev and Rachmaninov, Ravel's String Quartet, John Adams's A Short Ride in a Fast Machine and music by Radiohead and Sting.

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

MJ Cole: Sincere (excerpt)
Talkin Loud
Prolific Recordings TLD2LCO6521 Tr 10
Cole/Matrix Records
Duration: 1m42s

Tchaikovsky: Piano Concerto No 1 in B flat minor, Op 23 (3rd mvt)
Martha Argerich (piano)
Berlin Philharmonic
Claudio Abbado (conductor)
DG 4498162 Tr 3
Duration: 6m15s

Ravel: String Quartet in F (2nd mvt)
Belcea Quartet
String Quartets
EMI CDZ5740202 Tr 18
Duration: 6m00s

John Adams: A Short Ride in a Fast Machine (Two Fanfares for Orchestra)
San Francisco Symphony Orchestra
Edo de Waart (conductor)
Adams/Boosey and Hawkes
Earbox (Nonesuch 7559794532), CD 6 Tr 2
Duration: 4m15s

Rachmaninov: Prelude in C sharp minor, Op 3 No 2
Eldar Nebolsin (piano)
Preludes NAXOS 8570327 Tr 1
Duration: 4m16s

Radiohead: Nude
Radiohead/Warner Chappell Music Pub Ltd
In Rainbows XL XLCD324 Tr 3
Duration: 4m14s

Prokofiev: Toccata, Op 11
Martha Argerich (piano)
Argerich debut recital DG 44743020 Tr 4
Duration: 4m05s

Michael Andrews: Carpathian Ridge (Donnie Darko soundtrack)
Andrews/Elgonix Music/Sockeye Music inc BMI
Donnie Darko SANCTUARY SANDP251 Tr 1
Duration: 1m33s

Sting: Bring on the Night/When the World is Running Down (live) - excerpt
Englishman in New York A&M AMCD431 Tr 3
Duration: 6ms47s.

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