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Timings (where shown) are from the start of the programme in hours and minutes

• 00:00

  Modest Mussorgsky

  Tuileries (Pictures at an Exhibition)

  Performers: Wiener Philharmoniker, Andre Previn – conductor

  • PHILIPS 432512.

• Emily Dickinson

  My Garden, read by Fiona Shaw

• Wordsworth

  Summer Vacation from The Prelude, read by Robert Glenister

• 00:01

  Judith Weir

  Sumer is i-cumen in (Themes and Variations)

  Performers: ´óÏó´«Ã½ Symphony Orchestra, Jac van Steen – conductor

  • NMCD062.

• William Blake

  The Schoolboy, read by Robert Glenister

• 00:05

  Joan Baez

  Never dreamed you'd leave in summer

  • Diamonds and Rust.
  • A&M 3932332.
• 00:08

  Gustav Mahler

  po di Menuetto (Symphony no 3)

  Performers: Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Bernard Haitink – conductor

  • CSOR901701.

• August Kleinzahler

  The Damselfly, read by Fiona Shaw

• Paul Laurence Dunbar

  Summer in the South, read by Robert Glenister

• 00:18

  Olivier Messiaen

  Les Orioles (Des Canyons aux Etoiles)

  Performers: Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France, Myung-Whun Chung – conductor

• F. Scott Fitzgerald

  from The Great Gatsby, read by Fiona Shaw

• 00:25

  Charlie Parker's Reboppers

  Once upon a summertime

  Performer: Gil Evans – conductor

  • Quiet Nights, Complete Columbia Sessions.
  • CXK 67397.

• Qabbani

  In the summer, read by Fiona Shaw

• Walt Whitman

  from Song of Myself, read by Fiona Shaw

• 00:30

  Manuel de Falla

  Danza Lejana - Nights in the Gardens of Spain

  Performer: London Philharmonic Orchestra, Rafael Fruhbeck de Burgos – conductor

  • DECCA 4102892.

• Mark Doty

  After the Fourth, read by Robert Glenister

• 00:37

  John Cage

  Summer (The Seasons)

  Performers: American Composers Orchestra, Dennis Russell Davies – conductor

  • ECM 4651402.

• Mark Strand

  My mother on an evening in late summer, read by Fiona Shaw

• 00:46

  Gerald Finzi

  In five-score Summers

  Performers: Roderick Williams – baritone, Iain Burnside – piano

  • NAXOS 8557644.
• 00:47

  Zoltán Kodály

  Summer Evening

  Performers: Budapest Philharmonic Orchestra, Zoltan Kodaly – conductor

  • DEUTSCHE GRAMMOPHON 4274082.
• 00:53

  Stephen Sondheim

  Night Waltz (A Little Night Music)

  Performer: Richard Rodney Bennett

  • A Different Side of Sondheim.
  • DRGCD5182.

• Carol Ann Duffy

  Midsummer Night, read by Fiona Shaw

• 00:57

  Felix Mendelssohn

  A Midsummer Night's Dream

  Performers: London Symphony Orchestra, Andre Previn – conductor

  • EMI 5749812.

• Seamus Heaney

  Night Drive, read by Robert Glenister

• A Teasdale

  Summer Night, Riverside, read by Fiona Shaw

• 01:04

  George Gershwin

  Summertime

  Performer: Sarah Vaughan

  • The Essential Sarah Vaughan.
  • CBS 4671522.

• John Clare

  Summer Evening, read by Robert Glenister

• 01:09

  Ralph Vaughan Williams

  The Water Mill

  Performers: Robert Tear – tenor, Philip Ledger – piano

  • LONDON 4303682.

• Ted Hughes

  The Harvest Moon, read by Fiona Shaw

• 01:12

  Toru Takemitsu

  Rain Tree Sketch II

  Performers: Fujita Piano Trio

  • ASV CDDCA1120.

• John Burnside

  Summer, read by Fiona Shaw

• 01:17

  Antonín Dvořák

  Adagio (Symphony no 8)

  Performers: Berliner Philharmoniker, Rafael Kubelik – conductor

  • DEUTSCHE GRAMMOPHON 4579022.