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29/01/2008 Wolfie and Bobby – one writer’s private passions
Music for Grown-Ups has often praised the concept of Private Passions, BBC Radio 3’s weekly series. It’s a slightly upmarket (but drifting downmarket) version of Desert Island Discs. Occasionally, the programme has a guest with impressively eclectic tastes and you get a rare chance to compare and contrast different genres. Mostly, however, it uses arts/establishment stiffs with exceedingly narrow musical instincts and, increasingly, lightweight show biz celebs who have little worthwhile to say about anything. Sunday’s programme, featuring writer Bryan Appleyard, was better than most: anyone who can rave knowledgeably about both Dylan and Mozart has to be on the right team. In the end, though, it disappointed – the music was narrower than expected. Appleyard’s Dylan choice was lost among a narrow range of classical favourites. A Miles and an Ali Farka Toure tune or two would have helped. Gerry Smith
BBC Radio 3 programme details: Michael Berkeley meets Bryan Appleyard, feature writer, commentator, reviewer and columnist for several newspapers and magazines, including The Sunday Times and The New Statesman. He is also a writer on cultural and social issues; one of his recent books is entitled How to Live Forever or Die Trying. His musical passions range from sacred music by Tallis and Bach to Bob Dylan, but his particular love is the classical string quartet. Duration: Private Passions playlist 27 January 2008 M Berkeley 1) Mozart Symphony No 41 'Jupiter' (4th movement, Molto allegro) 2) Bob Dylan The Lonesome Death of Hattie Carroll 3) Thomas Tallis Salvator Mundi 4) Gram Parsons She 5) Schubert String Quartet in D Minor (Death and the Maiden) (3rd movement, Scherzo) 6) Schubert Litanei auf das Fest Allerseelen , D343 7) Beethoven Quartet in B flat, Op 130 (4th movement, Alla danza tedesca) 8) Chopin Nocturne in C Minor (1837) 9) Bach Dona Nobis Pacem (Mass in B minor)
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