Beauty
Texts and music on the theme of beauty, with readings by Eve Best and Don Warrington. With Baudelaire, Sara Teasdale and Pope, plus music from Bach, Delius and Byrd.
'A thing of beauty is a joy forever.' John Keats' paean is a celebration of that which has inspired love, reverence and harmony. Beauty is an elevation of the senses or a perfect balance of nature. In this edition of Words and Music, Eve Best and Don Warrington put down their vanity mirrors and take the words of Baudelaire, Sara Teasdale and Alexander Pope to explore what became, for Narcissus, a watery obsession. With music from Bach, Delius and Byrd.
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Timings (where shown) are from the start of the programme in hours and minutes
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00:00Claude Debussy
La Fille aux chevaux de lin
Performer: Albrecht Mayer, Academy of St Martin in the Fields, Kenneth Sillito, Mathias Monius
- DECCA 478 2564.
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Walter Savage Landor
God Scatters Beauty, Eve Best
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00:02Christian Sinding
Pinselilje
Performer: Bodil Arnesen, Erling Ragnar Eriksen
- NAXOS 8553905.
Alexander Pope
The Rape of the Lock, Don Warrington
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00:04Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky
The Sleeping Beauty
Performer: Mikhail Pletnev
- VIRGIN CLASSICS VC7911692.
William Wordsworth
Lines composed a Few Miles above Tintern Abbey, Eve Best
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00:09Frederick Delius
The Walk to the Paradise Garden
Performer: The Orchestra of the Welsh National Opera, Sir Charles Mckerras
- ARGO 4302022.
Dante Gabriel Rossetti
Genius in Beauty, Don Warrington
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00:17Vincenzo Bellini
Casta Diva
Performer: Joan Sutherland, Choeurs de l鈥橭pera de Paris, Orchestre de la Societe ddes concerts du Conservatoire, Paris
- DECCA 4213052.
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00:22Johann Sebastian Bach
Cello Suite No.2 in D minor
Performer: Steven Isserlis
- HYPERION CDA 675412.
Charles Baudelaire
Beauty, Eve Best
Andrew Marvel
To his coy mistress, Don Warrington
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00:26Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Avue Passione
Performer: Viktoria Postnikova
- ERATO 2292459672.
Emily Dickinson
I died for beauty, Eve Best
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00:30Samuel Barber
Antony and Cleopatra
Performer: Christian Badea, Spoleto Festival Orchestra, Esther Hinds, Jeffrey Wells
- NEW WORLD NW32223242.
Thom Gunn
The Beautician, Don Warrington
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00:33Edvard Grieg
Gone, Op71 No.6
Performer: Leif Ove Andsnes
- EMI 5572962.
Charles Baudelaire
The Eyes of Beauty, Eve Best
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00:37Sergey Prokofiev
Romeo and Juliet
Performer: Valery Gergiev, Kirov Orchestra
- PHILIPS 4647262.
Christopher Marlowe
Hero and Leander, Don Warrington
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00:40Maurice Ravel
Jeux D'eau
Performer: Jean-Yves Thibaudet
- DECCA 4335152.
Sara Teasdale
Helen of Troy, Eve Best
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00:45Dmitry Shostakovich
Symphony No.11
Performer: Alexander Lazarev, Royal Scottish National Orchestra
- LINN CKD247.
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00:51William Byrd
Pavan & Galliard a 5
Performer: Fretwork, Christopher Wilson
- VIRGIN CLASSICS VC5450312.
WB Yeats
He Remembers Forgotten Beauty, Don Warrington
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00:55Hector Berlioz
Les Troyens
Performer: Pierre Boulez, London Symphony Orchestra, New York Philharmonic
- SONY CLASSICAL SM3K64103.
Paul Verlaine
Moonlight, Don Warrington
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01:04Fr茅d茅ric Chopin
Nocturne in E Minor, Op 72 No.1
Performer: Nelson Freire
- TELDEC 844076.
Pablo Neruda
Ode to Naked Beauty, Eve Best
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01:10Claude Debussy
Valse Romantique
Performer: Catrin Finch
- SONY CLASSICAL SK93103.
Broadcast
- Sun 29 Apr 2012 18:30大象传媒 Radio 3
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