大象传媒

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

• Metamorphosis

  Franz Kafka translated by Michael Hoffman (read by Harry Hadden-Paton)

• 00:00

  Philip Glass

  Metamorphosis Four

  Performer: Philip Glass, solo piano

  • SONY SBK64133.

• Thetis

  Carol Anne Duffy (read by Meera Syal)

• 00:03

  Philip Glass

  Metamorphosis Four

  Performer: Philip Glass, solo piano

  • SONY SBK64133.

• Actaeon

  Seamus Heaney (read by Harry Hadden-Paton)

• 00:06

  Claude Debussy

  Syrinx

  Performer: Roger Bourdin, flute

  • PHILIPS 4426552.

• The Tiger鈥檚 Bride

  Angela Carter (read by Meera Syal)

• 00:09

  Igor Stravinsky

  The Firebird (Berceuse)

  Performer: City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Simon Rattle

  • EMI CLASSICS 5855382.

• Mutability

  Percy Bysshe Shelley (read by Harry Hadden-Paton)

• 00:15

  Trad.

  Full Fathom Five (William Shakespeare, from The Tempest)

  Performer: Alfred Deller

  • EMI CDH 5655012.
• 00:17

  Jerry Herman (lyrics and music)

  A Little More Mascara (from La Cage Aux Folles)

  Performer: Douglas Hodge

  • P.S. CLASSICS.

• George鈥檚 Marvellous medicine

  Roald Dahl (read by Meera Syal)

• 00:24

  Carl Maria von Weber

  Rondo from Piano Sonata No.1 in C major, Op. 24 "Perpetuum Mobile"

  Performer: Jean Martin

  • ARION ARN268240.

• The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde

  Robert Louis Stevenson (read by Harry Hadden-Paton)

• 00:29

  Alexander Goehr

  Metamorphosis/Dance Op. 36

  Performer: The Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra, conducted by David Atherton

  • UNICORN UKCD 2039.

• Thetis

  Jo Shapcott (read by Meera Syal)

• 00:34

  Igor Stravinsky

  Petrouchka (Petrouchka's Room) (from Diaghilev and The Golden Age Of The Ballets Russes 19

  • RRCD641.

• The Frog Who Dreamed She Was An Opera Singer

  Jackie Kay (read by Meera Syal)

• 00:39

  George Frideric Handel

  Acis and Galatea (Be thou immortal & Heart, the seat of soft delight)

  Performer: Sophie Daneman (soprano), Les Arts Florissants, conducted by William Christie

  • ERATO 3984 255052.

• Transformations

  Thomas Hardy (read by Harry Hadden-Paton)

• 00:44

  Gy枚rgy Ligeti

  Chamber Concerto

  Performer: London Sinfonietta, conducted by David Atherton

  • DECCA 4256232.
• 00:45

  Alexander Nikolayevich Tcherepnin

  Narcisse (Narcissus is transformed into a flower) (from Diaghilev and The Golden Age Of Th

  Performer: The Hague Chamber Choir, Residentie Orchestra The Hague, conducted by Gennady Rozhdestvensky

  • CHANDOS CHAN 9670.

• Translated by Ted Hughes Tales From Ovid (Echo and Narcissus)

  Ovid (read by Meera Syal and Harry Hadden-Paton)

• 00:49

  Antonio Vivaldi

  A Major Violin Concerto ("Echo Concerto")

  Performer: Il Giardino Armonica, conducted by Giovanni Antonini, Enrico Onofri and Marco Bianchi (violins)

  • TELDEC 4509945522.
• 00:55

  Frederick Loewe

  The Rain in Spain (from My Fair Lady)

  Performer: Julie Andrews, Rex Harrison

  • COLUMBIA CK5090.
• 00:55

  Felix Mendelssohn

  A Midsummer Night's Dream, Overture and Incidental Music

  Performer: Staatskapelle Berlin Orchestra, conducted by Gunther Herbig

  • Berlin Classics B000GEIOL2.
• 00:59

  Benjamin Britten

  A Midsummer Night's Dream

  Performer: Alfred Deller as Oberonfathom

  • LONDON 4256632.

• Puck from A Midsummer Night's Dream

  William Shakespeare (read by Meera Syal)

• 01:01

  Benjamin Britten

  A Midsummer Night's Dream

  Performer: Owen Brannigan as Bottom, Norman Lumsden as Peter Quince, London Symphony Orchestra

  • LONDON 4256632.

• Puck from A Midsummer Night's Dream

  William Shakespeare (read by Meera Syal)

• 01:03

  Benjamin Britten

  A Midsummer Night's Dream

  Performer: Elizabeth Harwood as Tytania, London Symphony Orchestra

  • LONDON 4256632.
• 01:05

  Benjamin Britten

  A Midsummer Night's Dream

  Performer: Four solo Fairies, London Symphony Orchestra

  • LONDON 4256632.

• Bottom from A Midsummer Night's Dream

  William Shakespeare (read by Harry Hadden-Paton)

• 01:08

  Felix Mendelssohn

  A Midsummer Night's Dream (Bergomask/Dance of the Clowns)

  Performer: Staatskapelle Berlin Orchestra, conducted by Gunther Herbig

  • Berlin Classics B000GEIOL2.

• Harmonia and Cadmus

  Matthew Arnold (read by Harry Hadden-Paton)

• 01:10

  Igor Stravinsky

  The Firebird (Disparition du Palais)

  Performer: City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Simon Rattle

  • EMI CLASSICS 5855382.