大象传媒

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

• 00:00

  Benjamin Britten

  Introductions (Act II, A Midsummer Night's Dream)

  Performer: London Symphony Orchestra, cond Benjamin Britten

  • LONDON 4256632.

• Dante (trans Mark Musa)

  Inferno (extract), reader Juliet Stevenson

• 00:03

  Ludwig van Beethoven

  Prelude and Fugue fragment for string quintet in D minor, H40

  Performer: Endellion String Quartet

  • WARNER 2564687133.

• Kenneth Rexroth

  Delia Rexroth, died June 1916, reader Peter Marinker

• 00:06

  Fr茅d茅ric Chopin

  Etude No. 3, (op 10)

  Performer: Maurizio Pollini

  • Deutsche Gramaphon 4137942.

• Donald Justice

  Men at Forty (permission of Alfred A Knopf -Random House), reader Juliet Stevenson

• 00:11

  John Cage

  Fourth Interlude

  Performer: Maro Ajemian

  • El B000HC2OGY.

• Roddy Lumsden

  The Man I Could Have Been, reader Peter Marinker

• 00:17

  Bob Dylan

  I Shall Be Released

  Performer: Nina Simone

  • SonyBMG B000JU8FY4.
• 00:21

  Charles Williams

  The Young Ballerina

  Performer:

  • EMI B0000267MC.

• Thomas Campion

  Mediocrity in Love Rejected, reader Juliet Stevenson

• 00:24

  Tracey Thorn

  Oh The Divorces!

  Performer: Tracey Thorn

  • Strange Feeling B003CP12GG.

• George Meredith

  Modern Love I, reader Peter Marinker

• 00:29

  B茅la Bart贸k

  Violin Concerto no 2 , (middle section)

  Performer: James Ehnes (violin), BBc Philaharmonic

  • CHAN10690.

• Thomas Hardy

  Neutral Tones, reader Juliet Stevenson

• Emily Dickinson

  After Great Pain A Formal Feeling Comes, reader Juliet Stevenson

• 00:39

  Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

  Lachrymosa, Requiem

  Performer: Karl Richter (conductor), M眉nchener Bach-Chor, M眉nchener Bach-Orchester

  • TELDEC 4509979262.
• 00:42

  Aaron Copland

  Interlude, Music For Theatre

  Performer: Andrew Littion (cond), Dallas Symphony Orchestra

  • DELOS DE3221.

• Robert Frost

  The Oven Bird, reader Peter Marinker

• 00:48

  Ned Rorem

  Hymn For Evening, From Evidence of Things Not Seen, II Middles

  Performer: Monique McDonald, Delores Ziegler, Rufus M眉ller, Kurt Ollmann, Michael Barrett (piano)

  • NEWWORLD 805752.
  • 27.

• WH Auden

  Musee des Beaux Arts, (Permission Curtis Brown, Ltd. 漏 81939) reader Juliet Stevenson

• 00:52

  Dmitry Shostakovich

  Piano Concerto No 2 in F major (second movement)

  Performer: Marc-Andr茅 Hamelin (piano), 大象传媒 Scottish Symphony Orchestra, Andrew Litton (conductor)

  • HYPERION CDA67425.

• Michael Donaghy

  Machines, reader Peter Marinker

• 01:00

  Henry Purcell

  Sefauchi's Farewell in D Minor

  Performer: Leonhardt-Consort / Br眉ggen-Consort

  • TELDEC9031776082.

• Louis MacNeice

  Entirely, reader Juliet Stevenson

• 01:03

  Benjamin Britten

  Interlude, A Ceremony of Carols

  Performer: Rachel Masters (harp)

  • ARGO 4332152.

• Philip Larkin

  Born Yesterday, for Sally Amis, reader Peter Marinker

• 01:07

  Felix Mendelssohn

  Nocture, A Midsummer Night's Dream

  Performer: Gewandhausorchester Leipzig, Kurt Masur (cond)

  • TELDEC 2292463232.

• Ezra Pound

  And the days are not full enough