David Mitchell
Michael Berkeley's guest is the writer David Mitchell.
David Mitchell is the author of nine time-traversing, genre-bending novels. His first, Ghostwritten, was published 25 years ago, and his third, Cloud Atlas, made his name around the world, and later became a Hollywood film. It follows six interlocking lives in an ambitious narrative that circles the globe and travels through time from 19th-century New Zealand to a post-apocalyptic future in Hawaii 鈥 and back again.
Closer to home, he drew on his own childhood in Worcestershire in his coming-of-age tale Black Swan Green, about a teenager attempting to overcome a stammer and negotiate playground hierarchies, all against the backdrop of the Falklands War.
His most recent novel, Utopia Avenue, charts the rise of an imaginary rock band in the late 1960s.
David's musical choices include Debussy, Rimsky-Korsakov, Sibelius and Hildegard von Bingen.
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Jean Sibelius
Andante festivo
Orchestra: Lahti Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Osmo V盲nsk盲.- Snofrid - Cantatas and Orchestral Works.
- BIS.
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Felix R枚sch
In Memory Of A Honey Bee
Performer: Matija Strni拧a. Ensemble: Mond毛na Quartet.- Fragmente.
- SilentGreen Records.
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Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov
The Flight of the Bumble Bee
Performer: Adam Gyorgy. Music Arranger: Sergey Rachmaninov.- Karmatronic Sound Mgmt, LLC.
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Anon.
Hanacpachap cussicuinin
Singer: Grace Davidson. Ensemble: Ex Cathedra. Conductor: Jeffrey Skidmore.- Moon, Sun & All Things: Baroque Music from Latin America 2.
- Hyperion.
- 1.
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Mark O鈥機onnor
Appalachia Waltz
Performer: Yo鈥怸o Ma.- Essential Yo-Yo Ma.
- Sony Classical.
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Johnny Flynn
The Water
Singer: Johnny Flynn. Singer: Laura Marling.- Been Listening.
- Transgressive.
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Ana茂s Mitchell
Wedding Song (Hadestown)
Ensemble: Original Broadcast Cast.- Hadestown (Original Broadway Cast Recording).
- Sing It Again Records.
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Christoph Willibald Gluck
M茅lodie de Gluck
Performer: James Rhodes. Music Arranger: Giovanni Sgambati.- James Rhodes: Five.
- SIGNUM.
- 13.
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Bill Evans
Peace Piece
Performer: Bill Evans.- Everybody Digs Bill Evans.
- Riverside.
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Claude Debussy
De l'aube 脿 midi sur la mer (La Mer)
Orchestra: London Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Fran莽ois鈥怷avier Roth.- Debussy: La mer, Pr茅lude 脿 l'apr猫s-midi d'un faune 鈥 Ravel: Rapsodie espagnole.
- Lso Live.
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Benjamin Britten
Corpus Christi Carol
Composer: Jeff Buckley. Performer: Jeff Buckley.- Grace.
- Sony Music Entertainment UK Ltd.
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Hildegard von Bingen
Quia ergo femina mortem instruxit
Ensemble: Ensemble for Medieval Music.- deutsche harmonia mundi.
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