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

• Shakespeare

  Hamlet – extract from Act 1 ‘I am thy Father’s Ghost’, Paul Copley

• 00:00

  John McCabe

  Fear in the Night

  Performer: The Hammer City Orchestra conducted by Philip Martell

  • Silva Screen FILMCD017.
• 00:03

  Charles Ives

  The Unanswered Question

  Performer: San Francisco Symphony Orchestra conducted by Michael Tilson Thomas

  • RCA 09026637032.

• Emily Dickinson

  I went to Heaven, Sophie Okonedo

• Wilfred Owen

  Strange Meeting, Paul Copley

• 00:12

  Benjamin Britten

  War Requiem – Let us sleep now

  Performer: Peter Pears, Dietrich Fischer Dieskau, Galina Vishnevskaya and the LSO conducted by Benjamin Britten

  • Decca 4143832.
• 00:15

  Lupo

  Fantasia a 6

  Performer: Fretwork

  • Virgin Classics VC5453462.

• Louise Chandler Moulton

  After Death, Sophie Okonedo

• 00:17

  Alexander Scriabin

  Sonata No 9 'Black Mass'

  Performer: Roberto Szidon

  • DG 4317472.

• Milton

  Paradise Lost – extract from Book 1 ‘The Argument’, Paul Copley

• 00:24

  Franz Liszt

  Faust Symphony – 3rd Movement 'Mephistopheles'

  Performer: The Philadelphia Orchestra conducted by Riccardo Muti

  • EMI CDC7490622.
• 00:32

  George Butterworth

  The Banks of Green Willow

  Performer: London Symphony Orchestra conducted by Richard Hickox

  • Chandos CHAN 9902.

• Thomas Hardy

  Transformations, Paul Copley

• 00:36

  Robert Schumann

  Child Falling Asleep Op 15 No 12 from Scenes from Childhood

  Performer: Lyn Garland

  • Unicorn UKCD2037.

• Alice Seebold

  The Lovely Bones, Sophie Okonedo

• 00:38

  Terry Riley

  Requiem for Adam – Ascending the Heaven Ladder

  Performer: Kronos Quartet

  • Nonesuch 7559796392.
• 00:40

  Steve Reich

  Different Trains – Europe during the War

  Performer: Kronos Quartet

  • Nonesuch 9791762.

• Dante

  The Divine Comedy – Inferno – Canto III, Sophie Okonedo

• 00:45

  Christoph Willibald Gluck

  Orfeo & Euridice – Andante & Chorus from Act 2, Scene 2

  Performer: Kammerchor Stuttgart, Tafelmusik conducted by Frieder Bernius

  • Sony Classical SX2K48040.
• 00:49

  Dee/Kent

  Bring Me Sunshine

  Performer: Morecambe & Wise

  • Virgin VTDCD332.

• Julian Barnes

  A History of the World in 10 ½ Chapters, Paul Copley

• 00:52

  Cy Coleman/Carolyn Leigh

  The Best Is Yet To Come

  Performer: Frank Sinatra

  • Reprise 8122735892.

• Dorothy Parker

  I Shall Come Back, Sophie Okonedo

• 00:55

  Adolphe Adam

  Giselle – Entre du Prince et apparition de Giselle (Act 2)

  Performer: Orchestra of the Royal Opera House conducted by Richard Bonynge

  • Decca 4175052.
• 00:58

  [unknown]

  Aint No Grave

  Performer: Johnny Cash

  • American Recordings 2733149.

• Walt Whitman

  Unnamed Lands, Paul Copley

• 01:04

  Keith Jarrett

  Americana

  Performer: Keith Jarrett

  • ECM 8373422.
• 01:07

  Giovanni de Macque

  Consonanze Strauaganti

  Performer: Lorenzo Ghielmi

  • Winter & Winter 9100552.

• Dante

  The Divine Comedy – Paradise – Canto XXXI, Sophie Okonedo

• 01:11

  Gabriel Fauré

  Requiem - In Paradisum

  Performer: Trinity College Choir

  • Conifer CDCF503.