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

• 00:00

  Paul Reade

  Aspects of Landscape (extract)

  Performers: Nicholas Daniel (oboe)

  • Leman LC 42801.

• Chia Tao

  Evening Landscape, Clearing Snow read by Jenny Agutter

• 00:00

  Michel Redolfi

  Mare Teno

  Performers: Thomas Bloch (ondes martenot)

  • Naxos 8.555779.

• Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  Frost at Midnight read by Anton Lesser

• 00:06

  Frédéric Chopin - Nocturne No.5 in F-sharp major, Op.15 No.2 (Larghetto)

  Performers: Maria Joao Pires (piano)

• Wilderness Act

  Wilderness Act - Public Law 88-566, September 3, 1964 read by Anton Lesser

• Robinson Jeffers

  Shine, Perishing Republic read by Jenny Agutter

• 00:15

  African American Spritual

  Go in the Wilderness

  Performers: The Princely Players

  • Smithsonian Folkways 40072.

• Gerald Manley Hopkins

  Inversnaid read by Anton Lesser

• 00:16

  Jean Sibelius

  The Swan of Tuonela

  Performers: Jukka Hirvikangas (cor anglais), Lahti Symphony Orchestra, Osmo Vanska (conductor)

  • BIS CD 1015.
• 00:26

  Paul Reade

  Aspects of Landscape (extract)

  Performers: Nicholas Daniel (oboe)

  • Leman LC 42801.

• Han Shan

  220 read by Jenny Agutter

• 00:26

  Dmitry Shostakovich

  String Quartet No 8 - Largo (4th movement)

  Performers: Brodsky Quartet

  • Teldec 244 919-2.

• Shackleton

  Beyond all Former Footsteps (extract) read by Anton Lesser

• W. H. Auden

  Journey to Iceland (AL & JA)

• 00:35

  Medieval Icelandic

  The song of Fire and Ice

  Performers: Sequentia

  • DHM 05472773812.
• 00:37

  György Ligeti

  Magany (Solitude)

  Performers: Groupe vocal de France

  • EMI 7540962.

• Robert Herrick

  His Change read by Anton Lesser

• Edgar Allan Poe

  The City in the Sea read by Jenny Agutter

• 00:41

  Henry Purcell

  O Solitude, My Sweetest Choice

  Performers: James Bowman (countertenor)

  • Hyperion CDA66253.

• Skeaping/Jeffrey

  In the Wilderness -timeless evocation: solo tambour

• Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Sand of the Desert in an Hour-Glass read by Anton Lesser

• 00:49

  Skeaping/Jeffrey

  Night in the Desert – descending scales: on santur

  • Sounds of the Jewish World.
  • KPM 342.
• 00:50

  Olivier Messiaen

  Le desert (from Des Canyons aux Etoiles)

  Performers: Yvonne Loriod (piano), Ensemble Ars Nova, Marius Constant (conductor)

  • Erato M2K 44762.

• Edward Hopper

  Fountains in the Wilderness read by Jenny Agutter

• 00:55

  Hotteterre

  Dans ces deserts paisable (air)

  Performers: Wilbert Hazelzet (traverse), Konrad Junghanel (theorbo)

  • Glossa GCD920801.
• 00:59

  Ralph Vaughan Williams

  Symphony No 3 – Lento Moderato

  Performers: London Symphony Orchestra, Andre Previn (conductor)

  • RCA GD90503.

• William Wordsworth

  IV on the sight of a manse in the south of Scotland read by Jenny Agutter

• John Clare

  Bird o’ the wilderness read by Anton Lesser

• 01:08

  Charlie McMahon

  Ephemeral Lakes

  • Manteca.

• Elizabeth Brown

  Spiritual Land read by Anton Lesser

• 01:12

  Paul Reade

  Aspects of Landscape (extract)

  Performers: Nicholas Daniel (oboe)

  • Leman LC 42801.

• T’ao Ch’ien

  Home Again Among Fields and Gardens read by Jenny Agutter