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

• 00:00

  Jean Sibelius

  Pastorale – Pelleas and Melisande

  • Summer Nights.
  • FINLANDIA 8573856042.

• Kenneth Grahame

  Wind in the Willows read by Jamie Glover

• 00:02

  Percy Grainger

  Spoon River

  Performers: ´óÏó´«Ã½ Philharmonic, Richard Hickox (conductor)

  • CHANDOS CHAN9839.

• Alice Oswald

  River read by Juliet Stevenson

• 00:06

  Philip Glass

  Tapajos River

  • Uakti – Aguas da Amazonia.
  • Omm0026.

• U.A. Fanthorpe

  Rising Damp read by Juliet Stevenson

• 00:11

  Henryk Mikołaj Górecki

  Szeroka Woda

  Performers: Lira Chamber Chorus, Lucy Ding – conductor

  • ELEKTRA NONESUCH 7559793482.

• Osip Mandelstam

  The Factories Bathing in the Moscow River read by Juliet Stevenson

• 00:16

  Modest Mussorgsky

  Khovanshchina Prelude

  Performers: London Symphony Orchestra, Sir Georg Solti (conductor)

  • DECCA 4176892.

• Ted Hughes

  If read by Jamie Glover

• 00:22

  Randy Newman

  Louisiana 1927

  • Good Old Boys.
  • REPRISE 927 214-2.

• Katrina Porteous

  Long Nanny Burn read by Juliet Stevenson

• 00:26

  Talking Heads

  Take me to the River

  • More Songs about Buildings and Food.
  • SIRE K256532.

• John Clare

  The Ford read by Jamie Glover

• 00:32

  George Butterworth

  The Banks of Green Willow

  Performers: London Symphony Orchestra, Gordan Nikolitch (leader), Richard Hickox (conductor)

  • CHANDOS CHAN9902.

• Donald Davie

  Green River read by Jamie Glover

• 00:37

  Frederick Delius

  Summer Night on the River

  Performers: Academy of St Martin-in-the-Fields, Neville Marriner (conductor)

  • Delius Concert.
  • LONDON 4213902.

• John Burnside

  In Avon read by Juliet Stevenson

• 00:44

  Aaron Copland

  At the River

  Performers: Marilyn Horne (mezzo soprano), English Chamber Orchestra, Carl Davis (conductor)

  • The World of Aaron Copland.
  • DECCA 473 146-2.

• Robert Lowell

  The Charles River read by Jamie Glover

• 00:48

  Ferde Grofé

  Albany Night Boat – Hudson River Suite

  Performer: Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra, William Stromberg (conductor)

  • Death Valley Suite.
  • NAXOS 8559017.

• Ezra Pound

  The River Merchant’s Wife: A Letter read by Juliet Stevenson

• 00:54

  Bright Sheng

  The Stream Flows – China Dreams

  Performers: Hong Kong Philharmonic Orchestra, Samuel Wong (Musical Director)

  • Orchestral Works.
  • NAXOS 8555866.

• Charles Causley

  Eden Rock read by Charles Causley

• 01:02

  Paul Robeson

  Deep River

  • Paul Robeson Volume 2.
  • MEMOIR CDMOIR426.

• Elizabeth Jennings

  Water Music read by Juliet Stevenson

• 01:06

  Sally Beamish

  Cello Concerto 'River' – Low Water

  Performers: Robert Cohen (cello), Swedish Chamber Orchestra, Ola Rudner (conductor)

  • BIS CD971.