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

• 00:00

  Ralph Vaughan Williams

  The Lark Ascending (extract)

  Performer: Nicola Benedetti (violin) Performer: London Philharmonic Orchestra Performer: Andrew Litton (conductor)

  • DG 476619 Tr1.

• William Wordsworth

  Calm is all nature as a resting wheel, reader Joanna Tope

• Alexander Pope

  The Quiet Life, reader Joe Dunlop

• 00:05

  Claude Debussy

  En bateau from "Petite Suite"

  Performer: Katia and Marielle Labeque (piano)

  • Philips 454471 Tr4.

• John Donne

  The Calm, reader Joanna Tope

• 00:11

  Jonathan Harvey

  Wheel of emptiness (extract)

  Performer: Ictus Performer: Georges-Elie Octors (conductor)

  • Cyprus 5604 Tr1.

• Arthur Schopenhauer (trans Portbury)

  The World as Will & Idea (extract), reader Joe Dunlop

• 00:16

  Gustav Mahler

  Symphony No 8 (extract from Part 1)

  Performer: Chicago Symphony Orchestra Performer: Georg Solti (conductor)

  • Decca 430804 CD9 Tr5.
• 00:18

  Ludwig van Beethoven

  'Ha! Welch ein Augenblick' from Fidelio

  Performer: Karl Ridderbusch Performer: Berlin Philharmonic Performer: Herbert Von Karajan (conductor)

  • EMI 387787 CD48 Tr13.

• William Shakespeare

  Hotspur鈥檚 Speech from Henry IV Part 1, reader Joe Dunlop

• 00:23

  Carl Nielsen

  Allegro collerico from Symphony No 2 "The 4 Temperaments" (extract)

  Performer: Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra Performer: Esa-Pekka Salonen (conductor)

  • CBS 44934 Tr1.

• Dylan Thomas

  Do not go gentle into that good night, reader Joanna Tope

• 00:26

  Alexander Scriabin

  Prometheus (extract)

  Performer: London Philharmonic Orchestra Performer: Vladimir Ashkenazy (conductor)

  • Decca 417252 Tr5.

• Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (trans Edgar Alfred Bowring)

  Prometheus, reader Joe Dunlop

• 00:31

  Anton Bruckner

  Symphony No 8 (extract from 1st Movement)

  Performer: Staatskapelle Dresden Performer: Giuseppe Sinopoli (conductor)

  • DG 447744 CD1 Tr1.

• George Herbert

  The Collar, reader Joanna Tope

• 00:34

  John Dowland

  In darkness let me dwell

  Performer: Andreas Scholl (countertenor) Performer: Edin Karamazov (lute)

  • Decca 466-917-2 Tr3.
• 00:38

  Harrison Birtwistle

  The Shadow of Night (extract)

  Performer: The Hall茅 Performer: Ryan Wigglesworth (conductor)

  • NMC 156 Tr2.

• Robert Burton

  Anatomy of Melancholy (extract), reader Joe Dunlop

• John Milton

  Il Penseroso (extract), reader Joe Dunlop

• 00:45

  Benjamin Britten

  Lachrymae (extract)

  Performer: Roger Chase (viola) Performer: Nash Ensemble Performer: Lionel Friend (conductor)

  • Hyperion 66845 Trs12, 16, 17.

• Alfred Tennyson

  Marianna, reader Joanna Tope

• 00:52

  Benjamin Britten

  Nocturnal (Passacaglia)

  Performer: Craig Ogden (guitar)

  • Hyperion 67648 Tr16.
• 00:58

  George Frideric Handel

  L'Allegro (Haste thee nymph)

  Performer: Ian Bostridge (tenor) Performer: Ensemble Orchestral de Paris Performer: John Nelson (conductor)

  • Virgin 545417 CD1 Tr5.

• John Milton

  L鈥檃llegro (extract) , reader Joanna Tope

• 01:04

  Gustav Holst

  Jupiter, the Bringer of Jollity, from the Planets (extract)

  Performer: Berlin Philharmonic Performer: Herbert von Karajan (conductor)

  • DG 400028 Tr4.

• Geoffrey Chaucer (trans Joseph Glaser)

  The Franklin from the General Prologue to The Canterbury Tales, reader Joanna Tope

• William Shakespeare

  Falstaff鈥檚 monologue from Henry IV Part 2, reader Joe Dunlop

• 01:11

  Giuseppe Verdi

  Falstaff (Tutto nel mondo e burla)

  Performer: Tito Gobbi (Falstaff) Performer: Elizabeth Schwarzkopf (Mistress Ford) Performer: Nan Merriman (Mistress Page) Performer: Philharmonia Orchestra & Chorus Performer: Herbert von Karajan (conductor)

  • EMI 749668 CD2 Tr26.