Hidden
Texts and music on the theme of concealment and the invisible, with readings by Alex Jennings and Maxine Peake. With Lewis Carroll and John Clare, plus Elgar, Bach and Janacek.
A sequence of poetry, prose and music on the theme of concealment and the invisible.
Alex Jennings and Maxine Peake read poems and prose by Lewis Carroll, Edward Thomas and John Clare about secrets, lost things and encrypted meaning. There's music by Elgar, Bartok, Britten and Poulenc.
Producer: Natalie Steed.
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00:00
John Barry
Main Title (from The Ipcress File)
Performer:
- Silva Screen Records.
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Ben Jonson
On Spies, reader Maxine Peake
Hannah Weiner
Code Poem, readers Alex Jennings, Maxine Peake
00:04John Tavener
The Hidden Treasure
Performer: Chilingirian Quartet
- VIRGIN CLASSICS 6932332.
Emily Dickinson
Split the Lark, reader Maxine Peake
Thomas Wyatt
Stand, whoso list, upon the slipper wheel of fame, reader Alex Jennings
00:08Gabriel Faur茅
Le Secret
Performer: Janet Baker, Geoffrey Parsons
- HYPERION CDA66320.
00:09Edward Elgar
Variations on an Original Theme ("Enigma"), X Intermezzo: Dorabella
Performer: Hall茅 Orchestra, Music Director, Mark Elder
- HALLE CDHLL 7501.
Lewis Carroll
from Alice in Wonderland, reader Alex Jennings
00:14Robert Schumann
Carnaval, Reconnaissance
Performer: Claudio Arrau
- PHILIPS 4208712.
00:16Tom Lehrer
Oedipus Rex
Performer: Tom Lehrer
- Rhino UK B00000340N.
Anon, translated by Kevin Crossley-Holland
Riddle 47, The Exeter Book of Riddles, reader Alex Jennings
00:18Camille Saint鈥怱a毛ns
Le Cygne, from Carnival of the Animals
Performer: Paul Tortellier
- EMI CDM7693862.
Anon, translated by Kevin Crossley-Holland,
Riddle 7, The Exeter Book of Riddles, reader Maxine Peake
Don Paterson
Breath, reader Alex Jennings
00:21Eric Whitacre
Water Night
Performer: The Eric Whitacre Singers
- GBUM71026533.
Kathleen Jamie
Ultrasound, reader Maxine Peake
Edward Thomas
Thaw, reader Maxine Peake
00:26Arnold Bax
Spring Fire, Symphony, In the Forest Before Dawn
Performer: Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, conductor Vernon Handley
- CHANDOS CHAN8464.
Simon Armitage
Diana and Actaeon, reader Alex Jennings
00:31Francis Poulenc
Aubade
Performer: Rotterdams Philharmonisch Orkest, James Conlon
- ERATO ECD88140.
Wendy Cope
Actaeon's Lover, reader Maxine Peake
00:37Akira Ifukube
Godzilla - Suite
Performer: City of Prague Philharmonic Orchestra
- Silva Screen.
- 5.
Alfred, Lord Tennyson
Kraken, reader Alex Jennings
00:39Claude Debussy
Pr茅ludes, Book 1, Profond茅ment calme (La cath茅drale engloutie)
Performer: Yukie Nagai
- BIS CD371.
U. A. Fanthorpe
7 Types of Shadow, reader Maxine Peake
John Burnside
Archeology, reader Alex Jennings
00:49Richard Strauss
Eine Alpensinfonie, Nebel steigen auf, Die Sonne verd眉stert sich allm盲hlich, Elegie
Performer: Berliner Philharmoniker, Herbert von Karajan
- DEUTSCHE GRAMMOPHON 4000392.
Seamus Heaney
The Bog Queen, reader Maxine Peake
John Clare
I hid my love, reader Alex Jennings
00:54B茅la Bart贸k
Strichquartett Nr. 3, 3. Coda: Allegro molto
Performer: Emerson String Quartet
- DEUTSCHE GRAMMOPHON 4236572.
Ruth Pitter
If you came, reader Maxine Peake
John Dryden
The Hidden Flame, reader Alex Jennings
00:59Benjamin Britten
Night covers up the rigid land
Performer: Neil Mackie, Roger Vignoles
- EMI CDC7492572.
01:02Antony
For Today I Am a Boy
Performer: The Unthanks
- RabbleRouser Music RRM009.
Carol Anne Duffy
Pope Joan, reader Maxine Peake
01:06William Byrd
Salve sancta parens
Performer: The Cardinall's Musick
- HYPERION CDA67675.
W. H. Auden
Twelve Songs [Song VIII, April 1936] reader Alex Jennings
01:09Leiber and Stoller
Is That All There Is?
Performer: Peggy Lee
- CAPITOL.
- 15.
Broadcast
- Sun 10 Feb 2013 18:30大象传媒 Radio 3