大象传媒

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

• 00:00

  Trad. Mongolian

  Gunan Khar (Horse Song)

  Performer: Otgontsetseg

  • 大象传媒 World Routes recording.

• Mongolian horse

  大象传媒 World Routes recording

• Ted Hughes

  The Horses, reader Emily Taaffe

• 00:03

  Gustav Mahler

  Symphony No.1, Movement 1

  Performer: New York Philharmonic Performer: Leonard Bernstein (conductor)

  • SONY SX12K89499.

• Anna Sewell

  Black Beauty, reader Sam Troughton

• Cormac McCarthy

  All the Pretty Horses, reader Emily Taaffe

• 00:10

  Doc Watson

  Tennessee Stud

  Composer: Jimmie Driftwood

  • VANGUARD VCDD 415582.

• Anon, trans. Brian Stone

  Gawain and the Green Knight, reader Sam Troughton

• 00:15

  Harrison Birtwistle

  Introduction from Gawain's Journey

  Performer: Philharmonia Orchestra/Elgar Howarth

  • COLLINSCLASSICS 13872.

• Cervantes, trans. J. M. Cohen

  Don Quixote, reader Emily Taaffe

• 00:18

  Gioachino Rossini

  William Tell, Overture

  Performer: National Philharmonic Orchestra Performer: Riccardo Chailly (conductor)

  • DECCA 417 797 2.

• Thomas Hardy

  No Buyers, reader Sam Troughton

• 00:23

  Gustav Mahler

  Symphony No.1, Movement 3

  Performer: New York Philharmonic Performer: Leonard Bernstein (conductor)

  • SONY SX12K89499.

• Enid Bagnold

  National Velvet, reader Emily Taaffe

• Grand National 2009

  Jim McGrath (commentator)

• Philip Larkin

  At Grass, reader Emily Taaffe

• 00:31

  Frank Bridge

  Nocturne from Suite for String Orchestra

  Performer: English String Orchestra Performer: William Boughton (conductor)

  • NIMBUS NI521013.

• Tolstoy, translated Rosemary Edmonds

  Anna Karenina, reader Sam Troughton

• 00:38

  Charles Ives

  Runaway Horse on Main Street

  Performer: The President鈥檚 Own United States Marine Band Performer: Colonel Timothy W. Foley (director)

  • NAXOS 8570559.

• Jonathan Swift

  Gulliver's Travels (abridged), reader Sam Troughton

• 00:41

  William Boyce

  Symphony No.3 in C major

  Performer: The English Concert Performer: Trevor Pinnock (conductor)

  • ARCHIV 419 631 2.

• Virgil, translated by John Dryden

  The Aeneid, reader Emily Taaffe

• 00:49

  Hector Berlioz

  Les Troyens, Act 1 "Chatiment effroyable"

  Performer: Gary Lakes, Gregory Cross, Gino Quilico, Rene Schirrer, Michel Phillippe, Catherine Dubosc, Claudine Carlson Performer: Montreal Symphony Orchestra Chorus Performer: Montreal Symphony Orchestra Performer: Charles Dutoit (conductor)

  • DECCA 443 694-2.

• W. B. Yeats

  Michael Robartes bids his beloved be at peace, reader Emily Taaffe

• 00:57

  Johannes Brahms

  Es tont ein voller Harfenklang from Gesange Op.17

  Performer: Jan Schroeder (horn), Hans-Ulrich Winkler (horn) Performer: Julia Raines Hahn (harp) Performer: North German Radio Chorus

  • DG 477 8258.

• Shakespeare

  Venus and Adonis, reader Sam Troughton

• 01:04

  Robert Schumann

  Piano Quintet Op.44, Movement 3

  Performer: Beaux Arts Trio Performer: Samuel Rhodes (viola) Performer: Dolf Bettelheim (violin)

  • PHILIPS 420791 2.

• Sylvia Plath

  Whiteness I Remember, reader Emily Taaffe

• 01:10

  Bat for Lashes

  Horse and I

  Composer: Natasha Khan

  • ECHO ECHCD72.