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

• 00:00

  Antonín Dvořák

  Waltz no 4 in G Major

  Performer: Prague Symphony Orchestra Conductor: Jiri Belohlavek

  • SUPRAPHON SU31662.

• William Shakespeare

  from The Winter’s Tale read by Imogen Stubbs

• Laurence Binyon

  The Little Dancers read by Imogen Stubbs

• 00:03

  John Tavener

  To a Child Dancing in the Wind

  Performer: Patricia Rozario

  • COLLINS CLASSICS 14282.

• Don Paterson

  Dancer read by Joseph Kloska

• 00:06

  Roger Quilter

  English Dances – Allegro giocoso and Allegro scherzoso

  Performer: Northern Sinfonia of England Conductor: Richard Hickox

  • EMI CDC7499332.
• 00:11

  Ludwig Minkus

  La Bayadere

  Performer: English Chamber Orchestra Conductor: Richard Bonynge

  • DECCA 436172.

• Sacheverell Sitwell

  from La Bayadere read by Imogen Stubbs

• 00:12

  George Gershwin

  Three Preludes

  Performer: Michael Collins and Piers Lane

  • CHANDOS CHAN10615.

• Alfred Corn

  Choreography read by Joseph Kloska

• 00:17

  Irving Berlin

  Let's Face the Music

  Performer: Fred Astaire and the RKO Radio Studio Orchestra Conductor: Max Steiner

  • RHINO R275614.

• James Laughlin

  Martha Graham read by Imogen Stubbs

• 00:22

  Aaron Copland

  Appalachia Spring

  Performer: New York Philharmonic Conductor: Leonard Bernstein

  • SMK 63082.

• Adrian Mitchell

  For David Mercer read by Joseph Kloska

• 00:27

  Astor Piazzolla

  Libertango

  Performer: Yo-Yo Ma

  • SONY CLASSICAL SK89667.

• Rainer Maria Rilke translated by Stephen Mitchell

  Spanish Dancer read by Imogen Stubbs

• 00:31

  Yasmin Levy

  Por La Mia

  Performer: Yasmin Levy

  • Harmonia Mundi.
• 00:36

  Malcolm Arnold

  English Dances - Adantino

  Performer: Queensland Symphony Orchestra Conductor: Andrew Penny

  • NAXOS 8553526.

• Jane Austen

  from Emma read by Imogen Stubbs

• 00:40

  Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

  Three Contredanses

  Performer: The Boskovsky Ensemble Conductor: Willi Boskovsky

  • VANGUARD 08801571.
• 00:44

  Steve Reich

  Different Trains – America Before the War

  Performer: Kronos Quartet

  • NONESUCH 9791762.

• William Carlos Williams

  Overture to a Dance of Locomotives read by Joseph Kloska

• 00:47

  John Adams

  John's Book of Alleged Dances – Toot Nipple

  Performer: Kronos Quartet

  • NONESUCH 7559794652.

• Euripides translated by William Arrowsmith

  from the Bacchae read by Joseph Kloska

• Shelley

  from Prometheus Unbound read by Imogen Stubbs

• 00:50

  Bedrich Smetana

  Dance of the Comedians

  Performer: The Cleveland Orchestra Conductor: Christoph von Dohnanyi

  • DECCA 4448672.

• Gabriela Mistral translated by Ursula Le Guin

  Give me your hand read by Imogen Stubbs

• 00:56

  Hamish MacCunn

  Gillie's Dance

  Performer: Murray McLachlan

  • DIVINE ART 25003.
• 00:56

  Einojuhani Rautavaara

  Flute Concerto (Dances with the Winds) - Vivace

  Performer: Patrick Gallois, flute with the Helsinki Philharmonic Orchestra Conductor: Leif Segerstam

  • ONDINE ODE9212.

• Evelyn Waugh

  from Vile Bodies read by Joseph Kloska

• 01:00

  Jerry Leiber & Mike Stoller - Is that all there is?

  Performer: Peggy Lee

• 01:05

  Peteris Plakidis

  Two Grasshopper Dances

  Performer: Gidon Kremer

  • TELDEC 0630135972.

• T.S. Eliot

  from the Four Quartets read by Joseph Kloska

• 01:07

  Claude Debussy

  Danse Profane

  Performer: Lisa Wellbaum with the Cleveland Orchestra Conductor: Pierre Boulez

  • DEUTSCHE GRAMMOPHON 4716142.