大象传媒

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

• 00:00

  Harrison Birtwistle

  Orpheus Elegy No. 1

  Performer: Melinda Maxwell (oboe), Helen Tunstall (harp)

  • OBOE CLASSICS CC2020.

• Don Paterson

  Orpheus (after Rainer Maria Rilke鈥檚 鈥楾he Sonnets of Orpheus鈥�), read by Mariah Gale

• Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, trans, William Edmonstoune Aytoun

  The Story of Orpheus (excerpt), read by Kobna Holdbrook-Smith

• 00:03

  Ludwig van Beethoven

  Piano Concerto No. 4 in G major, Op. 58 (2nd movt)

  Performer: Mitsuko Uchida (piano) Performer: Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra Performer: Kurt Sanderling (conductor)

  • PHILIPS 446 082 2.

• Apollonius of Rhodes, trans by R.C. Seaton

  The Argonautica, Book 1 (excerpt), read by Mariah Gale

• 00:10

  attrib. Luigi Rossi

  Prima Canzon 'Scipione Stella'

  Performer: Andrew Lawrence-King (harp)

  • HARMONIA MUNDI HMU 907246.
• 00:15

  Jean鈥怭hilippe Rameau

  Za茂s (Overture, excerpt)

  Performer: Les Musiciens du Louvre Performer: Marc Minkowski (conductor)

  • DG ARCHIV 477 557 8.

• Alexander Pope

  Ode for Music on St Cecilia鈥檚 Day (excerpt), read by Kobna Holdbrook-Smith

• 00:16

  George Frideric Handel

  The Trumpet's Loud Clangor (Ode for St Cecilia's Day)

  Performer: Anthony Rolfe Johnson (tenor) Performer: Bachchor Stockholm / Concentus Musicus Wien Performer: Nikolaus Harnoncourt (conductor)

  • TELDEC 0630 123192.

• Dannie Abse

  Three Street Musicians, read by Kobna Holdbrook-Smith

• 00:21

  Ralph Vaughan Williams

  Orpheus with his lute

  Performer: Allan Clayton. Performer: James Baillieu.

  Performer: Anthony Rolfe Johnson (tenor), Graham Johnson (piano)

  • HYPERION CDA66480.

• Don Paterson

  Girl (after Rainer Maria Rilke鈥檚 鈥楾he Sonnets of Orpheus鈥�), read by Kobna Holdbrook-Smith

• Don Paterson

  A God (after Rainer Maria Rilke鈥檚 鈥楾he Sonnets of Orpheus鈥�), read by Mariah Gale

• 00:26

  William Corkine

  Come live with me

  Performer: Paolo Pandolfo (viola da gamba)

  • GLOSSA GCD920403.

• Virgil, trans. William Pattison

  Georgics, Book IV (excerpt), read by Kobna Holdbrook-Smith

• 00:32

  Claudio Monteverdi

  L'Orfeo (Act 3, excerpt)

  Performer: John Mark Ainsley (Orpheus), Simon Grant (Charon) Performer: New London Consort Performer: Philip Pickett (director)

  • L鈥橭ISEAU-LYRE 433 545-2.

• Robert Browning

  Eurydice to Orpheus, read by Mariah Gale

• 00:45

  Christoph Willibald Gluck

  Dance of the Blessed Spirits (Orph茅e et Eurydice)

  Performer: Barthold Kuijken & Claire Guimond (flutes) Performer: Tafelmusik Performer: Jeanne Lamon (director)

  • SONY CLASSICAL SK 48045.

• Ovid, trans. Henry, Bishop of Chichester King

  Orpheus in Hades (excerpt), read by Kobna Holdbrook-Smith

• Carol Ann Duffy

  Eurydice, read by Mariah Gale

• 01:00

  Harrison Birtwistle

  The Mask of Orpheus (Act 3, excerpt)

  Performer: 大象传媒 Symphony Orchestra Performer: Andrew Davis (conductor)

  • NMC NMCD050.

• Virgil, trans. Cecil Day Lewis

  Georgics, Book IV (excerpt), read by Kobna Holdbrook-Smith

• 01:03

  Poliziano

  Dunque piangamo (La favola d'Orfeo)

  Performer: Matthew Spring (voice and lira da braccio)

  • HYPERION CDA66814.

• Don Paterson

  The Trace (after Rainer Maria Rilke鈥檚 鈥楾he Sonnets of Orpheus鈥�), read by Mariah Gale

• 01:07

  Luigi Rossi, arr. David Douglass

  Passacaille del seigneur Luigi

  Performer: The King鈥檚 Noyse Performer: David Douglass (director)

  • HARMONIA MUNDI HMU 907246.