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Actress Claire Bloom reveals her musical passions to Michael Berkeley, including operas by Mozart, Bellini, Verdi, Tchaikovsky and Richard Strauss, as well as pianist Alfred Brendel playing Schubert, cellist Heinrich Schiff playing Bach and the end of Schoenberg's Transfigured Night.

Playlist:

M Berkeley: The Wakeful Poet (Music from Chaucer) (pub OUP)
Beaux-Arts Brass Quintet
BBQ BBQ 003 T10
00 25

Schoenberg: Verklarte Nacht
The Nash Ensemble
Schoenberg VIRGIN VC 791478-2 T11
04 30

Verdi: the end of Otello
Placido Domingo (Otello), Frank Little (Cassio), Paul Plishka (Lodovico), Malcolm King (Montano), National PO/James Levine
Otello RCA 74321 39501-2 CD2 T15
05 47

Bellini: Casta Diva (from Norma Act 1)
Maria Callas (Norma), Orchestra and Chorus of La Scala, Milan/Tullio Serafin
The incomparable Callas 5 EMI CDC 7493932 T1
05 34

Bach: Prelude from the Cello Suite No. 2 in D minor, BWV 1008
Heinrich Schiff (cello)
Bach EMI CZS 574179-2 CD1 T7
02 57

Mozart: Una donna a quindici anni (from Cosi fan tutte, Act 2)
Anna Steiger (Despina) Royal Concertebouw Orchestra, Amsterdam/Nikolaus Harnoncourt
Cosi fan tutte TELDEC 90317138-2 CD2 T9
03 43

Schubert: Piano Sonata in A, D959 (2nd movement, Andantino)
Alfred Brendel (piano)
Schubert PHILIPS 475 7193 CD2 T2
07 36

Tchaikovsky: The Letter Scene (from Eugene Onegin Act 1)
Mirelli Freni (Tatyana), Orchestra of the Vienna State Opera/Seiji Ozawa
Eugene Onegin ORFEO C6370421 CD1 T10
04 28

Strauss: Die Zeit, die ist ein sonderbar' Ding (the Marschallin's Act 1 aria from Der Rosenkavalier)
Elisabeth Schwarzkopf (The Countess), Christa Ludwig (Octavian), Philharmonia Orchestra/Herbert von Karajan
Der Rosenkavalier EMI 567605-2 CD1 T18-19
03 37.

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