Kit de Waal
Michael Berkeley's guest is writer Kit de Waal.
Author Kit de Waal was brought up in a working class family in the Moseley suburb of Birmingham in the 1960s and 70s. She talks to Michael Berkeley about how reading wasn鈥檛 part of her childhood; she didn鈥檛 discover a love of books until much later in life. Her bestselling first novel, My Name is Leon, written in her 40s, draws on her own childhood experiences and her early career as a legal worker in the foster care system, and she devoted some of the proceeds to setting up a scholarship for aspiring authors from working class backgrounds.
Her music choices include tracks from classic film scores - her father was an avid film buff - including Rachmaninov, Gershwin and Oscar Hammerstein's Broadway version of Carmen, alongside Bach, Chopin and Miles Davis.
Producer: Graham Rogers
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Sergey Rachmaninov
Piano Concerto No. 2 in C minor (1st mvt)
Performer: Evgeny Kissin. Conductor: Valery Gergiev. Orchestra: London Symphony Orchestra.- Rachmaninoff: Concerto No. 2 & 6 脡tudes-Tableaux.
- RCA Red Seal.
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Georges Bizet
Dat's love (Carmen Jones)
Music Arranger: Oscar Hammerstein II. Singer: Marilyn Horne. Conductor: Herschel Burke-Gilbert.- Carmen Jones (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack).
- Top Tracks.
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Johann Sebastian Bach
Partita in A minor, BWV 1013: I. Allemande
Performer: Marion Ralincourt.- NoMadMusic.
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Trad.
Casadh an tS煤g谩in (The Twisting of the Rope)
Singer: Iarla 脫 Lion谩ird.- Brooklyn (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack).
- Sony Classical.
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Bill Evans
Blue In Green
Performer: Miles Davis. Performer: Miles Davis. Performer: John Coltrane. Performer: Bill Evans. Performer: Paul Chambers. Performer: Jimmy Cobb.- Complete Columbia Recordings.
- Columbia.
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Antonio Vivaldi
Ah ch'infelice sempre (Cessate, omai cessate)
Singer: Andreas Scholl. Ensemble: Ensemble 415. Director: Chiara Banchini.- HARMONIA MUNDI.
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Fr茅d茅ric Chopin
Prelude in E minor Op.28 No.4
Performer: Maria Jo茫o Pires.- Chopin: Piano Concerto No.2 In F Minor, Op. 21; 24 Preludes, Op. 28.
- Deutsche Grammophon (DG).
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- Sun 4 Jun 2023 12:00大象传媒 Radio 3
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