Enemies
Poetry and music on the theme of enemies. Struan Rodger and Siobhan Redmond read William Blake, Dorothy Parker, Baudelaire with music from Bach, Walton and Shirley Bassey.
One enemy can do more hurt than ten friends can do good. So said Jonathan Swift, and this week's Words and Music takes a closer look at what we have to fear from those who wish us harm. Struan Rodger and Siobhan Redmond read work by William Blake, Dorothy Parker, Charles Baudelaire, Penelope Shuttle and Naomi Shihab Nye, with music from Mozart, Handel, Berlioz and Shirley Bassey.
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Timings (where shown) are from the start of the programme in hours and minutes
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00:00
Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov
"Mozart's Requiem" Adagio
After Mozart Performer: Yuli Turovsky, I Musici de Montr茅al, Marc-Andr茅 Hamelin
- Chandos CHAN 9149.
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Naomi Shihab Nye
What He Said to His Enemies, read by Struan Rodger
00:02Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
String Quartet No. 17 in B flat ("Hunt")
Performer: Alban Berg Quartet
- EMI CDC 7 54052 2.
J P Dancing Bear
Natural Enemies, read by Siobhan Redmond
Siegfried Sassoon
Enemies, read by Struan Rodger
00:10Robert Schumann
Waldszenen, Verrufene Stelle (Haunted Spot)
Performer: Vladimir Ashkenazy
- DECCA 421 290-2.
Penelope Shuttle
Thief, read by Siobhan Redmond
00:18Gy枚rgy Kurt谩g
Messages of the Late Miss R. V. Troussova, Op 17, Loneliness, The day has fallen
Performer: Rosemary Hardy, Ensemble Modern, Peter E枚tv枚s
- Sony Classical SK 53 290.
00:20Ludwig van Beethoven
Wellington's Victory, Op 49
Performer: Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra, Lorin Maazel
- Masterworks CD 37252.
Adam Hansen
Skopje, 17-18 March 2004, read by Struan Rodger
00:27Bruce Springsteen
Your Own Worst Enemy
Performer: Bruce Springsteen
- Columbia 88697170602.
Andrew Fusek Peters and Polly Peters
Bruises Heal, read by Siobhan Redmond
00:31Leonard Bernstein
West Side Story
Performer: Leonard Bernstein, Kurt Ollmann, Orchestra and Chorus
- Deutsche Grammophon 415 253-2.
00:34Giuseppe Tartini
Sonata in G Minor 'Il trillo del Diavolo'
Performer: The Locatelli Trio
- Hyperion CDD22061.
Arthur Conan Doyle
Excerpt from The Final Problem, read by Struan Rodger
00:41George Frideric Handel
Israel in Egypt
Performer: John Eliot Gardiner, Monteverdi Choir, Monteverdi Orchestra
- Erato 2292-45399-2.
00:43John Barry
Goldfinger
Performer: Shirley Bassey
- EMI CDP-7-95345-2.
Dorothy Parker
Mortal Enemy, read by Siobhan Redmond
00:46Dory Previn and Andr茅 Previn
Can't We be Enemies
Performer: Dory Previn, Andr茅 Previn
- DRG Records MRS 503.
CHARLES BAUDELAIRE, translated by William A Sigler
The Enemy, read by Struan Rodger
00:50Ludwig van Beethoven
Sonata for Piano and Violin no 9 in A major (Kreutzer Sonata)
Performer: Martha Argerich, Gidon Kremer
- Deutsche Grammophon 447 054-2.
00:58Hector Berlioz
Les Troyens
Performer: Sir Colin Davis, Michelle DeYoung, London Symphony Orchestra, London Symphony Chorus
- LSO 0010 CD.
Edna St Vincent Millay
Weeds, read by Siobhan Redmond
01:02Pavel Grigorievich Chesnokov
Hasten to intercept your enemies
Performer: Children and Male Choir of the Moscow Choral Academy, Viktor Popov
- Saison Russe/Le Chant du Monde LDC 288 066.
Brian Turner
What Every Soldier Should Know, read by Struan Rodger
01:05Giacomo Puccini
Tosca, Vissi d'arte
Performer: Maria Callas, Victor de Sabata, Orchestra e Coro del Teatro alla Scala, Milano
- EMI 7243 5 56304 2 1.
William Blake
A Poison Tree, read by Struan Rodger
01:09Henry Thacker Burleigh
Go Down Moses
Performer: Paul Robeson, Lawrence Brown
- Pearl, GEMM CD 9264.
Broadcast
- Sun 22 Aug 2010 22:30大象传媒 Radio 3