Celebration
Special edition for Radio 3's 2010 Free Thinking festival. Tony Neilson and Zita Frith read celebratory poetry and prose, including some with a North East flavour.
Celebration! Kathryn Tickell heads a distinguished musical line-up in this special edition recorded at The Sage Gateshead, as part of Radio 3's Free Thinking Festival. All kinds of celebratory poetry and prose are read by Donald McBride and Zita Frith, including a strong North East flavour evoking the area's landscapes, heroes and heroines.
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Music Played
Timings (where shown) are from the start of the programme in hours and minutes
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00:00
Bedrich Smetana
Allegro vivo appassionata (from String Quartet No. 1)
Performer: Elias String Quartet
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Algernon Charles Swinburne
Northumberland
RS Thomas
The Bright Field
00:08Kathryn Tickell
Lordenshaws
Performer: Kathryn Tickell (pipes), Elias String Quartet
Barry McSweeney
Pearl in the Silver Morning
Sid Chaplin
The Watchers and the Watched
00:12Traditional - Celebrated Working Man
Performer: Mike Tickell (voice), Peter Tickell (guitar), Singers from The Sage Gateshead with Edward Milner
00:14Traditional - The Lads of Alnwick
Performer: Kathryn Tickell (pipes)
William Shakespeare
Henry IV Part One, Act 1, Sc. 3
00:18Traditional - Chevy Chase
Performer: Mike Tickell (voice)
00:19Bede
Hymnum canamus Domino
Performer: Singers from The Sage Gateshead with Edward Milner
Gerard Manley Hopkins
The Windhover
00:22Thomas Tallis
If ye love me
Performer: Singers from The Sage Gateshead with Edward Milner
The Bible
Song of Solomon
William Shakespeare
Sonnet 18
00:25Felix Mendelssohn
Andante from String Quartet in D major Op. 44, No. 1
Performer: Elias String Quartet
William Wordsworth
Grace Darling
00:34Edvard Grieg
Ave maris stella
Performer: Singers from The Sage Gateshead with Edward Milner
00:37Per N酶rg氓rd
Pastoral from Babette's Feast
Performer: Sara Bittloch (violin), Martin Saving (viola), Marie Bittloch (cello)
Isak Dinesen (Karen Blixen)
Babette鈥檚 Feast
Jane Grigson
Cherry from Jane Grigson鈥檚 Fruit Book
00:44Traditional - The Cherry-Tree carol
Performer: Singers from The Sage Gateshead with Edward Milner
John Cunningham
Newcastle Beer
00:48Traditional - Cushie Butterfield
Performer: Mike Tickell (voice), Kathryn Tickell (fiddle), Peter Tickell (guitar), Singers from The Sage Gateshead with Edward Milner
00:50Henry Purcell
Fantasia
Performer: Elias String Quartet
London Evening Post, 29 April 1749
Royal Fireworks in Green Park
Newcastle Courant, 1st October 1825
Opening of the Stockton to Darlington railway
00:57Traditional - The Stephenson Monument
Performer: Mike Tickell (voice), Peter Tickell (guitar), Singers from The Sage Gateshead with Edward Milner
James Kirkup
Charity Carnival from Sorrows, Passions and Alarms
01:00Traditional - A U hinny burd
Performer: Mike Tickell (voice), Singers from The Sage Gateshead with Edward Milner
Siegfried Sassoon
Everyone Sang
01:03Bob Chilcott
Everyone Sang, from Singing by Numbers
Performer: Singers from The Sage Gateshead with Edward Milner
01:05Brendan Murphy
Improvisation
Performer: Brendan Murphy (percussion)
Christopher Smart
My Cat Jeoffry
Thomas Bewick
A Memoir of Thomas Bewick written by himself
01:11Traditional - Wild Hills of Wannies and Cuckold come out of the Amrey
Performer: Kathryn Tickell (pipes)
01:12Kathryn Tickell, Brendan Murphy
Improvisation
Performer: Kathryn Tickell (pipes), Brendan Murphy (percussion)
Basil Bunting
Briggflatts
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- Sun 7 Nov 2010 22:15大象传媒 Radio 3