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Michael Berkeley's guests is Jasper Conran, one of Britain's best-known fashion designers. In 1978, Conran began producing women's clothing, and has since concentrated on such diverse fields as home furnishings, crystal and china, as well as designing costumes and sets for ballets, plays and opera.
His musical choices encompass singers such as Kathleen Ferrier, Ella Fitzgerald, Bessie Smith and Cat Stevens, as well as works by Mozart, Schubert, Chopin, and his favourite composer, Handel.
M Berkeley: The Wakeful Poet (Music from Chaucer) (pub OUP)
Trad: Blow the Wind Southerly
Schubert: Impromptu No 4 in A flat, D899
Elizabeth Welch: Stormy Weather (Harold Arlen and Ted Koehler)
Handel: Where'er you Walk (Semele - Act 2, Sc 3)
Bessie Smith: You Gotta Give Me Some (Spencer Williams)
Mozart: Laudate Dominum (Vesperae solennes de Confessore, K339)
Ella Fitzgerald: Undecided (Charles Shavers and Sid Robin)
Chopin: Waltz in G flat, Op 70 No 1
Handel: Comfort Ye My People (Messiah)
Cat Stevens: Morning has broken (words Eleanor Farjeon; music arr Cat Stevens)
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Michael Berkeley's guests is Jasper Conran, one of Britain's best-known fashion designers. In 1978, Conran began producing women's clothing, and has since concentrated on such diverse fields as home furnishings, crystal and china, as well as designing costumes and sets for ballets, plays and opera.
His musical choices encompass singers such as Kathleen Ferrier, Ella Fitzgerald, Bessie Smith and Cat Stevens, as well as works by Mozart, Schubert, Chopin, and his favourite composer, Handel.
M Berkeley: The Wakeful Poet (Music from Chaucer) (pub OUP)
Trad: Blow the Wind Southerly
Schubert: Impromptu No 4 in A flat, D899
Elizabeth Welch: Stormy Weather (Harold Arlen and Ted Koehler)
Handel: Where'er you Walk (Semele - Act 2, Sc 3)
Bessie Smith: You Gotta Give Me Some (Spencer Williams)
Mozart: Laudate Dominum (Vesperae solennes de Confessore, K339)
Ella Fitzgerald: Undecided (Charles Shavers and Sid Robin)
Chopin: Waltz in G flat, Op 70 No 1
Handel: Comfort Ye My People (Messiah)
Cat Stevens: Morning has broken (words Eleanor Farjeon; music arr Cat Stevens)

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