大象传媒

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

• Catholic News agency report May 5, 2008 (extract)

  Read by Jenny Agutter

• 00:00

  Thomas Bloch

  Sancta Maria (extract)

  Performer: Fabrice Di Falco (male soprano) Performer: Thomas Bloch (glass harmonica)

  • Naxos 8.555295.
• 00:01

  Maurice Durufl茅

  Tota pulchra es (from Quatre motets su des theme gregoriens)

  Performer: The Choir of St John鈥檚 College Cambridge Performer: Christopher Robinson (conductor)

  • Nimbus NI5599.

• Salve Regina (Catholic prayer)

  Read by Andrew Buchan

• George Gordon Noel Byron: The Ave Hour

  Read by Andrew Buchan

• 00:05

  Robert Parsons

  Ave Maria

  Performer: The Cardinall鈥檚 Musick Performer: Andrew Carwood (conductor)

  • Hyperion CDA67874.

• Rupert Brooke: Mary and Gabriel

  Read by Jenny Agutter

• 00:11

  Einojuhani Rautavaara

  Cantus Arcticus (Concerto for birds and orchestra): Mvt II Melankolia (extract)

  Performer: Royal Scottish National Orchestra Performer: Hannu Lintu (conductor)

  • Naxos 8.554147.

• Bible 鈥� Luke 1:35-37

  Read by Andrew Buchan

• Magnificat (from Bible) Luke 1:46-55

  Read by Jenny Agutter

• 00:14

  Johann Sebastian Bach

  Magnificat 鈥� opening movement

  Performer: Monteverdi Choir Performer: John Elliot Gardiner (conductor)

  • Philips 411 458-2.

• Gerard Manley Hopkins: The May Magnificat

  Read by Andrew Buchan

• 00:17

  Frederick Delius

  On hearing the first cuckoo in Spring (extract)

  Performer: Royal Philharmonic Orchestra Performer: Richard Hixkox (conductor)

  • Decca 440 323-2.
• 00:19

  John Adams

  El Ni卢卢帽o: Now she was sixteen years old (extract)

  Performer: Willard White (baritone) Performer: Daniel Brubeck (counter tenor) Performer: Brian Cummings (counter tenor) Performer: Steven Rickards (counter tenor)

  • Nonesuch 79634-2.

• Robert Herrick: Another

  Read by Andrew Buchan

• George Mackay Brown: Carpenter

  Read by Andrew Buchan

• 00:21

  Olivier Messiaen

  La Nativit茅 du Seigneur: mvt I La Vierge et l'Enfant (extract)

  Performer: Olivier Latry (organ)

  • DG 471 480-2.
• 00:22

  Sir James MacMillan

  And lo, the Angel of the Lord

  Performer: Cappella Nova Performer: Alan Tavener (conductor)

  • Linn CKD 383.

• William Butler Yeats: The Mother of God

  Read by Jenny Agutter

• 00:27

  Benjamin Britten

  This Little Babe (from A Ceremony of carols)

  Performer: Coventry Cathedral Boys' Choir Performer: John Marson (harp) Performer: David Lepine (conductor)

  • Chapter 1 Records: CMS 1007.
  • 7.

• Dorothy Parker: Prayer for a new mother

  Read by Jenny Agutter

• 00:29

  John Ireland

  The Holy Boy

  Performer: Maggini Quartet

  • Naxos 8.557777.

• Carol Ann Duffy: The Virgin Punishing the Infant (after the painting by Max Ernst)

  Read by Andrew Buchan

• 00:33

  Henry Purcell

  Tell me, some pitying angel (The Blessed Virgin's Expostulation)

  Performer: Nancy Argenta (soprano) Performer: Nigel North (archlute) Performer: Richard Boothby (viola da gamba) Performer: Paul Nicholson (chamber organ)

  • Virgin VC 7 59324 2.
• 00:40

  Anthony Kerr

  Where are you

  Composer: Jacqui Dankworth Performer: Jacqui Dankworth (voice) Performer: Anthony Kerr (vibraphone) Performer: Bosco de Oliviera (percussion)

  • EFZ1010.

• Bible 鈥� Luke 2:46-52

  Read by Jenny Agutter

• 00:44

  Steve Reich (b1936)

  The Desert music (extract)

  Performer: Chorus sine nomine Performer: Tonk眉nstler-Orchester Nieder枚sterreich Performer: Kristjan J盲rvi (conductor)

  • Chandos CHSA 5091.

• Thomas Hardy: An evening in Galilee

  Read by Jenny Agutter

• 00:47

  Antonio Vivaldi

  Stabat Mater (opening mvt)

  Performer: Andreas Scholl (counter tenor) Performer: Ensemble 415 Performer: Chiara Banchini (director)

  • HMC 901571.
• 00:50

  Sir James MacMillan

  Woman, behold thy Son! (from Seven Last Words from the Cross)

  Performer: Polyphony Performer: Britten Sinfonia Performer: Stephen Layton (conductor)

  • Hyperion CDA67460.

• Bible - John 19:26-27

  Read by Andrew Buchan

• 00:54

  Jules Massenet

  The last sleep of the Virgin (from La Vierge)

  Performer: Matthew Lee (cello) Performer: 大象传媒 Concert Orchestra Performor: Barry Wordsworth (conductor)

  • Naxos 8.570331.
  • 3.

• Clyde McGee: Mary at the cross

  Read by Jenny Agutter

• 00:59

  Pavel Lukaszewski

  Ave Maria

  Performer: Tenebrae Performer: Nigel Short (conductor)

  • Signum SIGCD085.

• Oscar Wilde: San Miniato

  Read by Andrew Buchan

• Marina Warner: Alone of all her sex (extract)

  Read by Jenny Agutter

• 01:03

  Ermanno Wolf鈥怓errari

  Intermezzo from Act III Jewels of the Madonna

  Performer: Philadelphia Orchestra Performer: Eugene Ormandy (conductor)

  • Sony SBK 63053.

• Siegfried Sassoon: Morning Glory

  Read by Andrew Buchan

• Timothy Daniel Sullivan: Fisherman鈥檚 Prayer

  Read by Andrew Buchan

• 01:07

  Nick Drake

  Cello Song (from the album Five leaves left)

  Performer: Nick Drake (voice) Performer: Clare Lowther (鈥榗ello) Performer: Danny Thompson (bass) Performer: Rocki Dzidzornis (congas)

  • IMCD 8/842 915-2.

• Seamus Heaney: 鈥淢other of God A History of the Virgin Mary鈥�

  Read by Andrew Buchan

• 01:11

  Charles Gounod

  Ave Maria (arr from Bach Prelude No1 BWV 846)

  Performer: Cecilia Bartoli (mezzo-soprano) Performer: Cinzia Maurizio (harp) Performer: Orchestra dell鈥橝ccademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia Performer: Myung-Whun Chung (conductor)

  • Decca 478 2249.