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

• 00:00

  Colleen

  Charles's birthday card - Colleen et les boites a musique

  Performer: Colleen (Cecile Schott) (music boxes)

  • BAY 53CDP/LC 12877, T3.
• 00:46

  Trad

  Silent Night

  • Polyphon disc musical box (Victorian music box) SAYDISC CD SDL 327 T7.

• Christina Georgina Rossetti

  My Gift, Sheila Hancock (singer)

• 00:02

  Orlande de Lassus

  Sibylla Libyca (Prophetiae Sibyllarum)

  Performer: Kuss Quartet

  • SONY 88697092162 T2.

• Samuel Longfellow

  Give Us This Day Our Daily Bread, Scott Handy (reader)

• 00:04

  Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky

  The Kingdom of Sweets (The Nutcracker, Act 2)

  Performer: Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra, Simon Rattle (conductor)

  • EMI 31621-2 CD2 T1.

• JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE, trans. Edgar Alfred Bowring

  The Christmas-Box, Sheila Hancock (reader)

• 00:08

  Richard Wagner - Siegfried Idyll

  Performer: Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Daniel Barenboim (conductor)

• Robert Herrick

  A Ring Presented to Julia, Scott Handy (reader)

• O Henry

  The Gift of the Magi (closing extract), Sheila Hancock (reader)

• Andy Razaf

  I'd Give a Dollar for a Dime, Sheila Hancock & Scott Handy (readers)

• 00:27

  John Openshaw & Leslie Cooke

  Love sends a little gift of roses (1919)

  Performer: Arthur Tracy (singer), Un-named orchestra

  • CDLK 4194 T9.

• Percy Bysshe Shelley

  To, Sheila Hancock (reader)

• 00:30

  Sergey Prokofiev

  Andante cantabile (Sonata for 2 violins in C major, Op.56

  Performer: Eugene Druker & Philip Setzer (violins)

  • DG 431 772-2 T4.
• 00:33

  Anon

  Angel Polka, Polyphon musical box (6 and a half inch disc model – Victorian music box)

  • SAYDISC CD-SDL 359 T7a.

• Edward Lear

  Limerick, Scott Handy (reader)

• Robert Graves

  On Giving, Sheila Hancock (reader)

• 00:34

  Pierre Boulez

  Memoriale (. . . explosante-fixe . . . original)

  Performer: Sophie Cherrier (flute), Ensemble Intercontemporain, Pierre Boulez (conductor)

  • ERATO 2292 45648-2 T5.

• Sheldon Allan Silverstein

  The Giving Tree, Scott Handy (reader)

• 00:39

  Colleen

  The Sad Panther. Colleen et les boites a musique

  Performer: Colleen (Cecile Schott) (music boxes)

  • BAY 53CDP/LC 12877 T5.

• William Wordsworth

  With a Small Present, Scott Handy (reader)

• Franz Grillparzer

  Sappho, Act 2 Scene 5, Sheila Hancock (reader)

• Robert Browning

  Lines for a Gift, Scott Handy (reader)

• 00:41

  Frédéric Chopin - Berceuse in D-flat major, Op.57

  Performer: Maurizio Pollini (piano)

• Walt Whitman

  Give Me the Splendid Silent Sun, Sheila Hancock & Scott Handy (readers)

• 00:47

  Igor Stravinsky

  Fireworks – Fantasy for Orchestra

  Performer: London Symphony Orchestra, Antal Dorati (conductor)

  • MERCURY 432 012-2 T1.

• Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Motto to ‘Gifts’, Scott Handy (reader)

• Mary Elizabeth Coleridge

  Broken Friendship, Sheila Hancock (reader)

• 00:51

  Sylvius Leopold Weiss

  Fantasie in C minor (Prague, 1719)

  Performer: Nigel North (lute)

  • BGS119 T15.

• William Butler Yeats

  Never Give All the Heart, Scott Handy (reader)

• 00:55

  Edward Elgar

  Chanson de nuit, Op.15 No.1

  Performer: English Sinfonia, Charles Groves (conductor)

  • IMP CLASSICS PCD 926.

• Thomas Grant Springer

  Giving and Forgiving, Sheila Hancock (reader)