大象传媒

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

• 00:00

  Maurice Ravel

  Lever du jour from Daphnis et Chloe, Lever du jour from Daphnis et Chloe

  Performer: Boston Symphony Orchestra, Claudio Abbado

  • DG4594392.

• Keats

  On first looking into Chapman鈥檚 Homer (CH)

• Homer (trans by George Chapman)

  Beg of The Odyssey (CH)

• 00:06

  MAW

  Odyssey

  Performer: CBSO, Simon Rattle

  • EMI 7542772.

• Cavafy (trans Edmund Keeley & Philip Sherrard)

  Ithaka (CH)

• 00:11

  Henri Duparc

  L'invitation au voyage

  Performer: Barbara Hendricks, soprano, Orchestre de l鈥橭pera de Lyon, John Eliot Gardiner

  • EMI7496892.

• Tennyson

  Ulysses (TM)

• 00:20

  Jacques Offenbach

  Couplets des Rois from La belle Helene

  Performer: Various soloists, Les Musiciens du Louvre, Marc Minkowski

  • Virgin45477.

• Marlowe

  Faust鈥檚 speech from Dr Faustus (TM)

• 00:24

  Richard Strauss

  Zweite Brautnacht from Die Agyptische Helene

  Performer: Deborah Voigt, Helen, American Symphony Orchestra, Leon Botstein

  • Telarc80605.

• Shakespeare

  Intro to Troilus and Cressida (CH)

• 00:30

  Tippett

  Start of King Priam ("War! War!")

  Performer: London Sinfonietta, London Sinfonietta Chorus, David Atherton

  • Chandos9406.

• W. H. Auden

  The Shield of Achilles (TM)

• 00:35

  Tippett

  O rich-soiled land from King Priam

  Performer: Robert Tear, Achilles, Timothy Walker, guitar, David Atherton

  • Chandos9406.

• Cavafy (trans Edmund Keeley & Philip Sherrard)

  The Horses of Achilles (CH)

• 00:40

  Leonard Bernstein

  Agathon from Serenade (after Plato's Symposium)

  Performer: Gidon Kremer, violin, Israel Philharmonic, Leonard Bernstein

  • DG447947.

• Plato (trans Benjamin Jowett)

  Agathon鈥檚 speech from the Symposium (TM)

• Racine (trans by Robert Bruce Boswell)

  from Phaedra (CH)

• 00:50

  Benjamin Britten

  Start of Phaedra to "I want your sword's spasmodic final inch"

  Performer: Ann Murray, mezzo, ECO, Steuart Bedford

  • Collins70372.

• Goethe (trans Stephen Plunkett)

  Ganymede (CH)

• 00:57

  Schubert

  Ganymede

  Performer: Ian Bostridge, tenor, Julius Drake, piano

  • EMI56347.

• Yeats

  Leda and the Swan (TM)

• 01:02

  Igor Stravinsky

  Prologue to Apollon Musagete

  Performer: Sinfonietta de Montreal, Charles Dutoit

  • Decca440327.

• Matthew Arnold

  Apollo Musagetes (TM)

• 01:09

  Richard Strauss

  End of An dem Baum Daphne

  Performer: 大象传媒 Singers, Choristers of Kings College, Cambridge, Stephen Cleobury

  • Collins14952.