Constraint
Music and poems on the theme of constraint. Siobhan Redmond and John Rowe read poems and prose by Rosa Luxemburg and Andrew Marvell, with music by Ethel Smyth and Poulenc.
A sequence of music, poems and prose on the theme of constraint. Artists have struggled against restriction, yearning for freedom and yet edges and boundaries can also be tremendous stimuli. Siobhan Redmond and John Rowe read poems and prose by Rosa Luxemburg, Andrew Marvell, Billy Collins and Emily Dickinson with music by Ethel Smyth, John Cage, Benjamin Britten and Francis Poulenc.
Producer: Natalie Steed.
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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
Jean Sibelius
The Oak Tree (Ariel) Plays the Flute, from The Tempest, Op. 109, Incidental Music to Shake
Performer: Lahti Symphony Orchestra, cond. Osmo V盲nsk盲
- BIS CD581.
- 9.
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Andrew Marvell
A Dialogue Between the Soul and the Body
00:04Purcell (arr Barbirolli)
Suite for Strings, Woodwind and Horns, I. Andante maestoso 鈥 Allegro (The Gordian Knot Unt
Performer: Halle Orchestra, cond. Barbirolli
- DUTTON LABORATORIES CDSJB1015.
- 05.
00:09John Cage
Sonata 2, Sonatas and Interludes for Prepared Piano
Performer: Gerard Fremy, Prepared piano
- ETCETERA KTC2001.
- 02.
Billy Collins
Japan
00:11Dave Brubeck
Unsquare Dance
Performer: Dave Brubeck Quartet
- SONY MUSIC B00004ZB1Y.
- 01.
Christian B枚k
鈥淚鈥, from Eunoia
00:14Leonard Bernstein
Carried Away from On The Town
Performer: Betty Comden and Adolph Green
- COLUMBIA CK2038.
- 03.
Emily Dickinson
They Shut Me Up in Prose
00:17Johann Sebastian Bach
Canon 2 Per augmentationem contrario motu, from Ein Musicalisches Opfer
Performer: Concentus musicus Wien, Cond Nikolaus Harnoncourt
- TELDEC 2292427482.
- 06.
William Wordsworth
Nuns Fret Not
00:20Camille Saint鈥怱a毛ns
Aquarium, from Le Carnaval des Animaux
Performer: The London Sinfonietta, Cond Charles Dutoit
- DECCA 4144602.
- 07.
Jane Austen
from Mansfield Park
00:22Muzio Clementi
Pi霉ttosto allegro con espressione from Sonata in F Sharp Minor
Performer: Bal谩zs Szokolay, piano
- NAXOS 8550452.
- 03.
T S Eliot
Hysteria
00:30Richard Thomas
Richard Thomas - Laughing Aria
Performer: Lore Lixenberg
00:31H. Wieniawski / Arr H. Schiff
Scherzo-Tarantella, Op 16
Performer: cello Heinrich Schiff, piano Samuel Sanders
- PHILIPS 4424092.
- 01.
Edward Baugh
Hedge Trimming
00:37Ethel Smyth
Elegy (In Memorium): Adagio, from Concerto for violin, horn and orchestra
Performer: Sophie Langdon, violin, Richard Watkins, horn, 大象传媒 Philharmonic, Odaline de la Martinez
- CHANDOS CHAN9449.
- 06.
00:44Benjamin Britten
Niobe, (Andante), from Six Metamorphoses after Ovid, for solo Oboe
Performer: Roy Carter, Oboe
- EMI CDC5553982.
- 14.
Seamus Heaney
The Grauballe Man
00:47Igor Stravinsky
(Le Chant du Rossignol
Performer:
James Stephens
The Cage
00:49Johnny Cash
Folsom Prison Blues
Performer: Johnny Cash
00:54Giacomo Puccini
Giacomo Puccini - E lucevan le Stella from Tosca
Performer: Placido Domingo, Philharmonia Orchestra, Cond. Giuseppe Sinopoli
00:58Olivier Messiaen
V. Louange 脿 L'Eternite de J茅sus, Quatuor pour la fin du temps
Performer: Gil Shahm, violin, Paul Meyer, Clarinet, Jian Wang Violoncello, Myung-Whun Chung piano
- 05.
Rosa Luxemborg
Diary Extract, Breslau Prison, December 1917
Siegfried Sassoon
Everyone Sang
01:09Francis Poulenc
Libert茅, from Figure Humaine
Performer: Tenebrae, musical director Nigel Short
- Signum Classics SIGCD197.
- 19.
Broadcast
- Sun 25 Sep 2011 18:30大象传媒 Radio 3