Ice
Carolyn Pickles and Alex Jennings read poetry and prose inspired by ice. With work from Wordsworth, Byron and Diski, and music from Vaughan Williams, Messiaen and Schubert.
In the second episode of programmes inspired by Robert Frost's poem Fire and Ice Carolyn Pickles and Alex Jennings read poetry and prose on the theme of ice. Fly with the Snow Queen, past the vivid blue icebergs of Antarctica and on to Byron's cold, dark vision of the end of the world.
You'll hear music by Purcell, Vaughan-Wiliams, Rachmaninov and Eliza Carthy as well as poems and prose from Charles Dickens, William Wordsworth, Edmund Spenser, Simon Armitage and Jenny Diski.
Producer Fiona McLean.
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00:00Ralph Vaughan Williams
Climbing the Glacier
Performer: Darius Battiwalla, 大象传媒 Philharmonic, Yuri Torchinsky, Rumon Gamba
- Chandos.
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Robert Frost
Fire and Ice read by Alex Jennings
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00:01Frederick Delius
Winter Landscape, North Country Sketches
Performer: Ulster Orchestra, Vernon Handley
- Chandos.
Edmund Spenser
Ice and Fire read by Carolyn Pickles
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00:06Henry Purcell
The Frost Scene, King Arthur
Performer: Monteverdi Choir, English Baroque Soloists
- Erato.
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00:08Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Winter Dreams
Conductor: Riccardo Muti
- 3.
Charles Dickens
Pickwick Papers read by Carolyn Pickles
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00:17Josef Strauss
Eislauf op. 261
Performer: Berlin Symphony Orchestra, Robert Stolz
- Eurodisk.
William Wordsworth
The Prelude read by Alex Jennings
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00:20Sergey Rachmaninov
Allegro
Performer: Robert Shaw, Atlanta Symphony Orchestra & Chorus
- Telarc.
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00:26Terje Isungset
Frozen
Performer: Terje Isungset, Iro Haarla, Arve Henriksen, Hilmar Jensson, Skuli Sverrison
- Unknown Public.
Simon Armitage
The Present read by Alex Jennings
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00:27Einojuhani Rautavaara
Melancholy, Cantus Arcticus
Performer: Richard Stoltzman, Helsinki Philharmonic Orchestra, Leif Segerstam
- Ondine.
Jenny Diski
Skating to Antarctica read by Carolyn Pickles
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00:32Ralph Vaughan Williams
Sherzo, Sinfonia Antartica
Performer: Bryden Thomson, The London Symphony Chorus, The London Symphony Orchestra, Roderick Elms, Catherine Bott
- Chandos.
Percy Bysshe Shelley
Mont Blanc read by Carolyn Pickles
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00:40Henry Purcell
Cold Song
Performer: Klaus Nomi
- BMG.
Hans Christian Andersen
The Snow Queen read by Alex Jennings
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00:45Sergey Prokofiev
Danilo meets his fellow villagers, The Tale of the Stone Flower
Performer: 大象传媒 Philharmonic, Yuri Torchinsky, Gianandrea Noseda
- Chandos.
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00:47Giacomo Puccini
Che gelida manina from La Boheme
Conductor: Riccardo Chailly
- 8.
W.B. Yeats
The Cold Heaven read by Alex Jennings
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00:53Franz Schubert
Looking Back, Winterreise
Performer: Ian Bostridge, Leif Ove Andsnes
- EMI.
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00:55Olivier Messiaen
Le Chocard des Alpes, Catalogue d'Oiseaux
Performer: Martin Zehn
- Arte Nova.
Helen Dunmore
Ice Coming read by Carolyn Pickles
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00:58[traditional]
The Snow It Melts the Soonest
Performer: Eliza Carthy, Saul Rose, Tristan Glover
- Topic.
Lord Byron (Actual In Time: 01:01:40)
Darkness by Alex Jennings
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01:00Sir George Benjamin
A Mind of Winter (Actual In Time: 01:02:00)
Performer: London Sinfonietta, George Benjamin, 大象传媒 Symphony Orchestra, Mark Elder
- Nimbus.
Broadcasts
- Sun 13 Mar 2011 22:30大象传媒 Radio 3
- Wed 28 Dec 2011 16:30大象传媒 Radio 3
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