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

• 00:00

  Richard Strauss

  Ein Heldenleben op 40 – Des Helden Weltflucht und Vollendung

  Performers: Michael Schewalbe (violin), Berlin Philharmoniker, Herbert Von Karajan (conductor)

  • Strauss: Ein Heldenleben.
  • EMI CDM7690272.

• Lord Byron

  Solitude read by Paul McGann

• William Wordsworth

  Personal Talk read by Kirsty Besterman

• 00:05

  Traditional - All Through the Night

  Arranger: Gordon Langford Performers: The Sellers Engineering Band, Alan Morrison (conductor)

• Li Bai

  Drinking Alone by Moonlight read by Paul McGann (translator Arthur Waley)

• 00:10

  Rose Murphy

  Me and My shadow

  Composer: Rose, Jolson, Dryer

  • The Orginal Pop Idols.
  • AVID AMSC748.
• 00:12

  Robert Muczynski

  Three Preludes for unaccompanied Flute - Allegro

  Performer: Alexandra Hawley

  • Muczynski: Complete works for Flute.
  • MARCO POLO 8225041.

• Michael Drayton

  Sonnet XI: You Not Alone read by Paul McGann

• 00:14

  Henry Purcell

  O Solitude, my sweetest choice

  Performer: Daniel Taylor

  • On the Muse’s Isle.
  • ATMA ACD22133.

• Walt Whitman

  A noiseless patient spider read by Kirsty Besterman

• 00:20

  Benjamin Britten

  The Sally Gardens

  Performers: The Vibrators

  • Meltdown.
  • FM REVXD121.
• 00:21

  Bob Crewe And Bob Gaudio.

  The sun Ain't gonna shine

  Performers: The Walker Brothers

  • The Sun Ain’t Gonna Shine.
  • Phillips 320 212 BF.

• Maya Angelou

  Alone read by Maya Angelou

• 00:26

  Thelonious Monk

  Round Midnight

  Performers: Thelonious Monk, George Taitt, Sahib shihab, bob paige, art blakey

  • The best of Thelonious Monk.
  • Blue Note CDP7956362.

• James Tate

  Cricket Cricket read by Kirsty Besterman

• 00:30

  Johann Sebastian Bach

  Suite No 2 in D minor – Prelude

  Performer: Matt Haimovitz

  • Oxingale.
  • OX2000 CD 1.

• Philip Larkin

  Best Society read by Paul McGann

• 00:36

  Domenico Gabrielli

  Trumpet sonata no 4 in D Major - Presto

  Performers: Thomas Reiner And Southwest German Chamber Orchestra Pforzheim, Sebastian Tewinkel (conductor)

  • Baroque Trumpet.
  • Naxos 8570501.

• Tomas Transtromer

  Solitude I read by Kirsty Besterman (translated by Robert Bly)

• 00:38

  Rued Langgaard

  String Quartet No. 6 In one movement on a Swedish folk tune 1918-1919

  Performers: The Kontra Quartet

  • Marco Polo DCCD 9302 –.

• Tomas Transtromer

  Solitude II read by Paul McGann (translated by Robert Bly)

• Ws Merwin

  The Lantern read by Kirsty Besterman

• 00:44

  Alexander Scriabin

  Prelude in C sharp minor for left hand op 9 no1

  Performer: Stephen Coombs

  • The Early Scriabin.
  • Helios CDH55286.

• Michael Drayton

  The Song of Jonah in the Whales Bellie read by Paul McGann

• 00:47

  Gabriel Fauré

  Cantique de Jean Racine

  Performers: Cambridge singers, Rutter (conductor)

  • Faure: Requiem etc..
  • Collegium Colcd109.

• Alexandre Dumas

  Count of Monte Cristo read by Paul McGann (Translated by David Coward)

• Stevie Smith

  The Commuted Sentence read by Kirsty Besterman

• 00:55

  Sergey Prokofiev

  Cinderella

  Performers: Cleveland Orchestra, Askenaxy (conductor)

  • Prokofiev: Cinderella.
  • DECCA 4101622 CD1.

• Emily Dickinson

  It Might be Lonelier by read by Kirsty Besterman

• 00:59

  Louis Spohr

  Clarinet concerto no 1 in c minor op 26 - Adagio

  Performers: Michael Collins (clr), Swedish Chaber Orchestra, Robin O’Neil (conductor)

  • Hperion CDA67509.

• W.B.Yeats

  The Lake Isle of Innisfree read by Paul McGann

• 01:03

  Frederick Delius

  Song of the High Hills – With quiet easy movement

  Performers: Orchestra and Chorus of Welsh National Opera, Charles Mackerras (conductor)

  • Delius: Appalachia/Song of the High Hills.
  • Decca 4431712.