Michael Berkeley is joined by the poet David Harsent , winner of the 2005 Forward Poetry Prize for his collection Legion. In addition to nine poetry collections he has written opera libretti, notably for Harrison Birtwistle , with whom he is currently working on a new opera, The Minotaur. His musical choices range from Britten's setting of The Lyke Wake Dirge and Billie Holiday singing Fine and Mellow to
Wagner's Siegfried Idyll, Beethoven's Emperor concerto and the Sanctus from Gounod's St Cecilia Mass.