Classic Arts

Michael Berkeley's guest on Sunday 13/12/2009 was Sam Taylor-Wood

Michael Berkeley meets the Turner Prize-nominated conceptual artist and filmmaker Sam Taylor-Wood, whose
latest work, `Nowhere Boy’, is a film about the early life of John Lennon. Much of her work has been inspired by music, from opera to Bach, and her choices today range from the opening of Gluck’s opera `Orfeo ed Euridice’ , the Kyrie from Mozart’s Requiem and the opening of Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony to an Indian raga, Nina Simone singing `Wild is the Wind’, and film scores by Ry Cooder and Michael Nyman.

The music played was:

1: Introitus from ‘Requiem in D Minor’ KV626 by Mozart

Bavarian Radio Chorus and Symphony Orchestra/Leonard Bernstein Marie McLaughlin (soprano)

CD/Record number:DG 431 041-2

2: ‘Prabhãti’ by Ravi Shankar

Ravi Shankar (sitar), Yehudi Menuhin (violin), Alla Rakha (tabla)

CD/Record number:EMI CDC7490702

3: Gluck by Ah ! Se intorno a quest’urna funesta from Orfeo ed

Bernarda Fink (Orfeo), Rias-Kammerchor/Freiburger Barockorchester dir René Jacobs

CD/Record number:HARMONIA MUNDI HMC90174243

4: Love by John Lennon

John Lennon

CD/Record number:PARLAPHONE CDP7915162

5: 1st mvt from Symphony no 9 in D minor Op 125 by Beethoven

Staatskapelle Berlin/Daniel Barenboim

CD/Record number:ERATO 4509 94353-2

6: Paris, Texas by Ry Cooder

Ry Cooder, Jim Dickinson, David Lindley

CD/Record number:WARNER 9252702

7: Wild is the Wind by Nina Simone

Nina Simone (piano/voice), Rudy Stevenson (guitar), Lisle Atkinson, (bass), Bobby Hamilton, (drums)

CD/Record number:MERCURY 8385452

8: 'The Heart asks Pleasure First’ from ‘The Piano’ by Michael Nyman

Michael Nyman (piano)

CD/Record number:VENTURE CDVE919