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07/09/2008

Michael Berkeley meets folk singer-songwriter Judy Collins, whose choices include Rachmaninov's Piano Concerto No 2, plus songs by Ned Rorem, Stephen Sondheim and Joni Mitchell.

Michael Berkeley meets American folk singer and songwriter Judy Collins, who made her name in the Greenwich Village scene of the 1960s in company with Bob Dylan, Joni Mitchell and Leonard Cohen. Four decades later, in 2008, she is still writing and recording her songs, as well as involving herself in social activism. Her eclectic musical choices range from Rachmaninov's Second Piano Concerto to songs by Ned Rorem, Stephen Sondheim and Joni Mitchell.

M Berkeley: The Wakeful Poet (from Music from Chaucer)
(Berkeley/OUP)
Beaux Arts Brass Quintet

Judy Collins : Since You鈥檝e Asked
鈥楾he Essential Judy Collins鈥� WILDFLOWER WFL1302-2 鈥� TRACK 7
(Collins/Universal Music Corp ASCAP)

Francesco Landini : 鈥楲asso ! Di Donna鈥�
鈥楾he Sport of Love鈥� DORIAN DOR 93175 鈥� Track 5
Jay Hill (voice), Colleen Sheinberg (harp), Art Sheinberg (vielle)
(from M煤sica Antigua de Albuquerque)

Ned Rorem : I am Rose (Gertrude Stein)
鈥楽ongs鈥� NAXOS 8559084 鈥� Track 21
Carole Farley (soprano), Ned Rorem (piano)
Rorem/Stein Boosey & Hawkes/CF Peters Corporation
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Ned Rorem : Early in the Morning (Robert Hillier)
鈥楽ongs鈥� NAXOS 8559084 鈥� Track 24
Carole Farley (soprano), Ned Rorem (piano)
Rorem/Hillier Boosey & Hawkes/CF Peters Corporation

Rachmaninov : 1st mvt from Piano Concerto no 2 in C Minor op 18
DG 00289 477 5499 鈥� Track 1
Lang Lang (piano), Orchestra of the Marinsky Theatre/Valery Gergiev

Joni Mitchell : Both Sides Now
Both Sides Now REPRISE 9362476202 鈥� Track 12
Featuring Wayne Shorter (soprano saxophone)
Orchestra arranged and conducted by Vince Mendoza
Mitchell/Crazy Crow Music

Copland : Lincoln Portrait (excerpt)
鈥楶ortraits of Freedom鈥� DELOS DE3140 鈥� Track 2
James Earl Jones (speaker), Seattle Symphony Orchestra/Gerard Schwarz

Sondheim : Pretty Women from Sweeney Todd (excerpt)
RCA 33792RC 鈥� Track 19
Edmund Lyndeck, Len Cariou, (Original Broadway Cast Recording)
Sondheim/Alfred Publishing

Kenny White : Symphony in 16 Bars
WILDFLOWER WFL 1304 鈥搕rack 11
Kenny White/MVP Music ASCAP

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