List of Private Passions episodes (2020–present)
This is a list of Private Passions episodes from 2020 to present. It does not include repeated episodes or compilations.
2020
| Date | Guest | Composer | Title | Performer / Label |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 5 Jan 2020 | Carlo Rovelli | Beethoven | Benedictus (Missa Solemnis) | Orchestra: New York Philharmonic. Conductor: Bruno Walter. |
| Vivaldi | Violin Concerto in B flat major, Rv.583 | Performer: Piero Toso. Orchestra: I Solisti Veneti. Conductor: Claudio Scimone. | ||
| Arvo Pärt | Fur Alina | Performer: Jeroen van Veen. | ||
| Mozart | Dies Irae (Requiem) | Choir: New College Oxford Choir. Orchestra: Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment. Conductor: Edward Higginbottom. | ||
| Philip Glass | Knee Play 5 (Einstein on the Beach) | Ensemble: Philip Glass Ensemble. Conductor: Michael Riesman. | ||
| Schubert | Piano Trio no.2 in E flat major (2nd mvt: Andante) | Ensemble: Beaux Arts Trio. | ||
| Bach | Wir eilen mit schwachen (Cantata no.78: Jesu, der du meine Seele) | Singer: Julianne Baird. Singer: Allan Fast. Ensemble: Bach-Collegium Stuttgart. Conductor: Joshua Rifkin. | ||
| 12 Jan 2020 | Helen Cammock | Barbara Strozzi | Che si puo fare | Performer: Leonardo García Alarcón. Performer: Mariana Flores. Ensemble: Cappella Mediterranea. |
| Traditional Danish | Sekstur from Vendsyssel/The Peat Dance | Ensemble: Danish String Quartet. | ||
| Francesca Caccini | Ciaconna | Ensemble: Cappella di Santa Maria degli Angiolini. Director: Gian Luca Lastraioli. | ||
| Bach | Goldberg Variations BWV.988 (Aria & Variations 1 & 2) | Performer: Glenn Gould. | ||
| Henry Purcell | Thy hand Belinda... When I am laid in earth (Dido and Aeneas) | Singer: Jessye Norman. | ||
| Shostakovich | Cello Concerto no.1 in E flat major (1st mvt: Allegretto) | Performer: Truls Mørk. Orchestra: Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Vasily Petrenko. | ||
| Nina Simone | African Mailman | Performer: Nina Simone. | ||
| 19 Jan 2020 | William Sieghart | Mozart | Piano Concerto no.18 in B flat major, K.456 (2nd mvt: Andante un poco sostenuto) | Performer: Imogen Cooper. Orchestra: Northern Sinfonia of England. |
| Schubert | Standchen | Performer: Lise de la Salle. Music Arranger: Franz Liszt. | ||
| Bach | Concerto in D minor for two violins (1st mvt: Allegro) | Performer: Isabelle Faust. Performer: Bernhard Forck. Orchestra: Berlin Academy for Early Music. | ||
| Debussy | Clair de lune | Performer: Paul Crossley. | ||
| The Skatalites | Swing Easy | Ensemble: The Skatalites. | ||
| Felix Mendelssohn | Song without Words, Op.30 no.6 | Performer: Murray Perahia. | ||
| 2 Feb 2020 | James Thornton | Jean Sibelius | Violin Concerto in D minor (3rd mvt: Allegro) | Performer: Jascha Heifetz. Orchestra: Chicago Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Walter Hendl. |
| Mozart | Der Holle Rache (The Magic Flute, Act 2) | Singer: Lucia Popp. Orchestra: Philharmonia Orchestra. Conductor: Otto Klemperer. | ||
| Brian Eno | Just Another Day | Performer: Brian Eno. | ||
| Bach | Gottes Zeit ist die Allerbeste Zeit | Performer: György Kurtág. Performer: Márta Kurtág. Music Arranger: György Kurtág. | ||
| Béla Bartók | Sebes (Fast Dance) (Contrasts, 3rd mvt) | Performer: Benny Goodman. Performer: Joseph Szigeti. Performer: Béla Bartók. | ||
| Lou Harrison | La Koro Sutro (excerpt) | Choir: Chamber Chorus of University of California, Berkeley. Ensemble: American Gamelan Ensemble. Conductor: Philip Brett. | ||
| 9 Feb 2020 | Ann Wroe | Schubert | Piano Sonata in C minor, D.958 (4th mvt: Allegro) | Performer: Alfred Brendel. |
| William Walton | Symphony No.1 (1st mvt: Allegro assai) | Orchestra: Orchestra of Opera North. Conductor: Paul Daniel. | ||
| Jacques Brel | Les Ramparts de Varsovie | Performer: Jacques Brel. | ||
| Frank Bridge | The Sea (3rd mvt: Moonlight) | Orchestra: Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Sir Charles Groves. | ||
| Jonathan Dove | Seek Him that maketh the seven stars | Choir: Choir of St John's College, Cambridge. Conductor: Andrew Nethsingha. | ||
| Ralph Vaughan Williams | Roadside Fire (Songs of Travel) | Performer: Viola Tunnard. Singer: John Shirley-Quirk. | ||
| Ravel | Rigaudon (Le Tombeau de Couperin) | Orchestra: Les Siècles. Conductor: François-Xavier Roth. | ||
| 16 Feb 2020 | Jonathan Aitken | Handel | Ev'ry Valley (Messiah) | Singer: Richard Lewis. Orchestra: Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Malcolm Sargent. |
| Traditional Irish | The Garden where the praties grow | Performer: John McCormack. | ||
| Britten | Sammy's bath (The little sweep) | Orchestra: English Opera Group. Conductor: Benjamin Britten. | ||
| Wagner | Entry of the Gods into Valhalla (Das Rheingold) | Singer: Iain Paterson. Orchestra: Hallé. Conductor: Sir Mark Elder. | ||
| Beethoven | O welche Lust (Fidelio) | Choir: Arnold Schoenberg Chor. Orchestra: Lucerne Festival Orchestra. Conductor: Claudio Abbado. | ||
| Joseph Barnby | Psalm 24 | Performer: Andrew Lumsden. Choir: Choir of Westminster Abbey. Conductor: Martin Neary. | ||
| Arthur Sullivan | When I was a lad (HMS Pinafore) | Performer: John Reed. Orchestra: D'Oyly Carte Opera Orchestra. Conductor: Isidore Godfrey. | ||
| Handel | All we like sheep (Messiah) | Singer: Emma Kirkby. Orchestra: Academy of Ancient Music. Conductor: Christopher Hogwood. | ||
| 23 Feb 2020 | Chibundu Onuzo | Christian Petzold | Minuet in G | Performer: Lang Lang. |
| Handel | Hallelujah Chorus (Messiah) | Orchestra: City of Prague Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: David Temple. Choir: Crouch End Festival Chorus. | ||
| Traditional music | I wonder as I wander | Singer: Gerald Finley. Choir: The Cambridge Singers. Conductor: John Rutter. | ||
| Antonín Dvořák | Symphony no.9 in E minor (From the New World)(2nd mvt: Largo) | Orchestra: Chineke! Orchestra. Conductor: Kevin John Edusei. | ||
| Fela Kuti | Water no get enemy | Performer: Fela Kuti. | ||
| Walter Donaldson | My baby just cares for me | Lyricist: Gus Kahn. Performer: Nina Simone. | ||
| Ken Okeke | The Lord is my Shepherd (Psalm 23) | Performer: Chibundu Onuzo. | ||
| 1 Mar 2020 | Piers Gough | William Walton | The Writing on the Wall (Belshazzar's Feast) | Conductor: William Walton. Singer: Dennis Noble. Orchestra: Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra. |
| Monteverdi | Pur ti miro (L'incoronazione di Poppea) | Singer: Roberta Invernizzi. Singer: Sonia Prina. Ensemble: Claudiana Ensemble. Conductor: Luca Pianca. | ||
| Orlando Gough | Perils of Tourism | Ensemble: Man Jumping. | ||
| Handel | Endless pleasure, endless love (Semele) | Singer: Rosemary Joshua. Orchestra: Early Opera Company. Conductor: Christian Curnyn. | ||
| Truckstop Honeymoon | Truckstop Honeymoon | Ensemble: Truckstop Honeymoon. | ||
| Ravel | Daphnis and Chloe | Orchestra: Los Angeles Philharmonic. Conductor: Charles Dutoit. | ||
| Paulo Vinicius | Blue in the flame | km_ Tanya Wells. Ensemble: Seven Eyes. | ||
| 15 Mar 2020 | Isabel Allende | Mozart | Flute Concerto no.1 in G major (2nd mvt: Adagio) | Performer: Jean-Pierre Rampal. Orchestra: Israel Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Zubin Mehta. |
| Víctor Jara | Te Recuerdo Amanda | Singer: Víctor Jara. | ||
| Tomaso Giovanni Albinoni | Oboe Concerto in D minor, Op.9 no.2 (2nd mvt: Adagio) | Performer: Anthony Camden. Orchestra: London Virtuosi. Conductor: John Georgiadis. | ||
| Traditional music | Si me quieres escribir | Performer: Rolando Alarcón. | ||
| Vivaldi | Spring (The Four Seasons) | Performer: Rachel Podger. Ensemble: Brecon Baroque. | ||
| Gonzalo Roig | Quiereme Mucho | Singer: Plácido Domingo. | ||
| Violeta Parra | Gracias a la vida | Performer: Mercedes Sosa. | ||
| 22 Mar 2020 | Stephen Schwartz | Leonard Bernstein | World without end (Mass) | Performer: Mary Bracken Phillips. Performer: Leonard Bernstein. |
| Beethoven | Sonata in C sharp minor (Moonlight) (1st mvt: Adagio) | Performer: Jonathan Biss. | ||
| Bach | Brandenburg Concerto no.6 in B flat major (3rd mvt: Allegro) | Orchestra: Marlboro Festival Orchestra. Conductor: Pau Casals. | ||
| Aaron Copland | Appalachian Spring (excerpt) | Orchestra: New York Philharmonic. Conductor: Leonard Bernstein. | ||
| Carl Orff | O Fortuna (Carmina Burana) | Orchestra: Atlanta Symphony Orchestra. Choir: Atlanta Symphony Chorus. Conductor: Donald Runnicles. | ||
| Stephen Schwartz | No one mourns the wicked (Wicked) | Performer: Cristy Candler. Performer: Kristin Chenoweth. Performer: Jan Neuberger. Performer: Sean McCourt. | ||
| Rachmaninov | Prelude in C sharp minor, Op.3 no.2 | Performer: Nikolai Lugansky. | ||
| Puccini | Chi il ben sogno di Doretta (La Rondine) | Orchestra: English Chamber Orchestra. Conductor: Jeffrey Tate. Singer: Renée Fleming. | ||
| 5 Apr 2020 | Jools Holland | Bach | Prelude in B minor (Well-Tempered Clavier, book 1) | Performer: Edwin Fischer. |
| Bach | Prelude in B flat minor (Well-tempered Clavier, book 1) | Performer: Friedrich Gulda. | ||
| Jean-Paul-Égide Martini | Plaisir d'amour | Performer: Tito Schipa. | ||
| Richard Strauss | Arabella (excerpt) | Singer: Elisabeth Schwarzkopf. Singer: Josef Metternich. Orchestra: Philharmonia Orchestra. Conductor: Lovro von Matačić. | ||
| Edwin T. Astley | The World Ten Times Over | Performer: Edwin T. Astley. | ||
| Felix Mendelssohn | Greeting, Op.63 no.3 | Performer: Gerald Moore. Singer: Kathleen Ferrier. Singer: Isobel Baillie. | ||
| Messiaen | Regard du Pere (Vingt regards sur l'enfant Jesus) | Performer: Yvonne Loriod. | ||
| Wagner | Pilgrim's Chorus (Tannhauser) | Performer: Donald Lambert. Music Arranger: Donald Lambert. | ||
| 12 Apr 2020 | Chris Watson | Ánde Somby | Gadni - Spirit of the Mountain | |
| Jean Sibelius | Tapiola | Orchestra: Lahti Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Osmo Vänskä. | ||
| Hildur Guðnadóttir | Folk faer andlit | |||
| Pierre Schaeffer | Etude aux Chemins de Fer | |||
| Britten | Cello Suite no.2 (5th mvt: Chaconne) | Performer: Mstislav Leopoldovich Rostropovich. | ||
| Adrian Corker | I have the package | |||
| Claire M Singer | Solas | |||
| 26 Apr 2020 | John Dyson | Beethoven | Piano Concerto no.1 in C major (1st mvt: Allegro con brio) | Performer: Anda Géza. Orchestra: Salzburg Camerata. |
| Leonard Bernstein | Chichester Psalms (1st mvt, excerpt) | Orchestra: Israel Philharmonic Orchestra. Choir: Vienna Youth Choir. Conductor: Leonard Bernstein. | ||
| Schubert | Fantasia in F minor, D.940 | Performer: Paul Badura-Skoda. Performer: Jörg Demus. | ||
| Bach | Goldberg Variations (opening) | Performer: Sir András Schiff. | ||
| Verdi | Otello (Act 1, finale) | Singer: Margaret Price. Singer: Carlo Cossutta. Orchestra: Vienna Philharmonic. Conductor: Georg Solti. | ||
| Richard Strauss | Im Abendrot (Four Last Songs) | Singer: Karita Mattila. Orchestra: Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Claudio Abbado. | ||
| John Lennon And Paul Mccartney | Hey Jude | Ensemble: The Beatles. |