大象传媒

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

• 00:00

  Claude Debussy

  Dr Gradus ad Parnassas from Children's Corner.

  Performer: Noriko Ogawa (piano)

  • BIS CD 1205.

• Donald Justice

  The Pupil, read by Louise Jameson

• Robert Louis Stevenson

  Early in the morning I hear on your piano, read by Joshua Richards

• 00:02

  Camille Saint鈥怱a毛ns

  Pianistes from Carnival of the Animals

  Performer: Jean-Philippe Collard, Michel Beroff (pianos) Performer: Le Trio a Cordes Francaix

  • EMI CDC 7475432.

• Ogden Nash

  Piano Tuner, Untune me that Tune, read by Joshua Richards. Used by permission of Curtis Brown, Ltd. Copyright 漏 1945. All Rights reserved.

• 00:05

  Marilyn Monroe and Tom Ewell

  Excerpt from "Rachmaninov and Chopsticks" from "The Seven Year Itch".

  • Blue Moon BM 4102.
• 00:07

  Euphemia Allen, arr. Liberace

  Chopsticks

  Performer: Liberace (piano) and orchestra

  • Columbia 4989522.

• Billy Collins

  Piano Lessons, read by Louise Jameson

• 00:11

  Richard Rodgers

  "It might as well be Spring"

  Performer: Andre Previn (piano)

  • Emarcy 06025 172 983-1 6.

• D.H.Lawrence

  Piano, read by Joshua Richards.

• 00:16

  Frank Bridge

  Come to me in my dreams

  Performer: Yvonne Kenny (soprano), Caroline Almonte (piano)

  • ABC 476 158 1.

• John Updike

  Player Piano, read by Joshua Richards

• 00:19

  Jelly Roll Morton

  Midnight Mama

  Performer: Piano Roll (Jelly Roll Morton)

  • Nonesuch 7559793632.

• Randall Jarrell

  The Player Piano, read by Louise Jameson

• 00:25

  Fr茅d茅ric Chopin

  Waltz in A minor op 34.2

  Performer: Zoltan Kocsis

  • Philips 412 890-2.
• 00:31

  John Bull

  Chromatic Galliard

  Performer: Sophie Yates (virginals)

  • Chaconne CHAN 0699.

• Shakespeare

  Sonnet 128, read by Joshua Richards.

• Roy Helton

  In Passing, read by Louise Jameson

• 00:35

  Ludwig van Beethoven

  Fur Elise

  Performer: Steven Osborne (piano)

  • Hyperion CDA 67879.

• Robert Frost

  The Investment, read by Joshua Richards.

• Siegfried Sassoon

  Concert Party (Egyptian Base Camp), read by Louise Jameson

• 00:38

  Keith Nichols

  Till the sun comes shining through

  • KPM 358 CD.
• 00:40

  Zo Elliot

  There's a long, long trail a-winding.

  Performer: Thomas Allen (baritone) Malcolm Martineau (piano)

  • Hyperion CDA67374.

• Christopher Morley

  Hic Sudavit Sed Non Frustra, read by Joshua Richards.

• 00:44

  Alan Livingston

  Excerpt from "Sparky's Magic Piano".

  • EMI CDEMS1466.
• 00:46

  Fr茅d茅ric Chopin

  Etude in C minor ("Revolutionary"), Opus 10 number 12

  Performer: Maurizio Pollini (piano)

  • DG 413 794-2.

• Jane Austen

  Emma (excerpt from Chapter 10), read by Louise Jameson.

• 00:49

  Franz Schubert - Deutsche D 972 (Excerpt from Dances 3 and 2)

  Performer: Alice Ader (piano)

• 00:51

  John Field

  Excerpt from Rondo from Sonata no. 3 (H.8`3) (Op.1`3) in C minor,

  Performer: M铆ce谩l O'Rourke (piano)

  • CHAN 8787.
• 00:52

  Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

  Sonata for piano duet (K.19d) in C major, 3rd movement; Rondeau

  Performer: Christoph Eschenbach and Justus Frantz (piano duet)

  • DG 435 0422.

• Edward Clerihew Bentley

  Liszt, read by Louise Jameson

• 00:56

  Franz Liszt

  Totentanz for piano and orchestra (S.126) (opening)

  Performer: Krystian Zimerman (piano) Performer: Boston Symphony Orchestra Performer: Seiji Ozawa (conductor)

  • DG 477 9525.

• Stuart Isacoff

  A Natural History of the Piano (excerpt), read by Joshua Richards.

• 00:59

  Blackwell/Hammer

  Great Balls of Fire

  Performer: Jerry Lee Lewis

  • PCD 814.
• 01:00

  Johann Sebastian Bach

  Two-part inventions, no.13 BWV.784 in A min

  Performer: Glenn Gould (piano)

  • Sony Classical SMK 52596.

• Rachel Cusk

  The Bradshaw Variations (excerpt), read by Joshua Richards.

• 01:04

  Ludwig van Beethoven

  Piano Sonata no.8 in C minor Op.13 'Pathetique' (2nd mvt)

  Performer: Ingrid Fliter.

  Performer: Maria-Joao Pires (piano)

  • Apex 8573 89225 2.

• Linda Pastan

  Practicing, read by Louise Jameson

• 01:09

  Scott Joplin

  Elite Syncopations

  Performer: Alexander Peskanov (piano)

  • Naxos 8.559114.