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Actor Toby Jones is the reader in a programme running the terrain between loneliness and solitude with music from Mozart to Billie Holiday, words from John Clare to Ralph Ellison.

The actor Toby Jones reads the words of John Clare, Ralph Ellison, Edward Thomas, John Williams and George Herbert amongst others; musical triangulation is provided by Elliott Carter, Mozart, John Coltrane, Hildegard von Bingen, Philip Glass, Billie Holiday, Gyorgy Ligeti, Puccini and Bach - masters of the ensemble but also of the solo.

This week Toby Jones is also making his own selection of music which you can hear on Thursday night from midnight and is downloadable as The Late Junction Mixtape.

For this Words and Music the readings explore the gap between solitude and loneliness. You can enjoy your own company and yet dislike being abandoned to your own devices. You can argue that we're born alone, live alone and die alone and yet we live life navigating our relations with other people. Even when we are in splendid and palpable isolation at times it feels as if there is more than one of us in the room.

Producer: Zahid Warley.

1 hour, 15 minutes

Last on

Sun 22 Oct 2017 17:30
大象传媒 Radio 3

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Music Played

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

  • 00:00

    Elliot Carter

    Adagio from Eight Pieces for Four Timpani

    Performer: Daniel Druckman.
    • Bridge.
    • Tr17.

  • John Clare

    I am by John Clare Read by Toby Jones

  • 00:03

    I Gordon- A Roberts- A Kaufman

    Me Myself and I from The Quintessential Billie Holiday

    Performer: Billie Holiday.
    • CBS.
    • Tr15.

  • William Wordsworth

    I wandered lonely as a cloud Read by Toby Jones

  • 00:07

    Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Allegro from Horn Concerto NO 3 in E flat major K 447

    Performer: Dennis Brain.
    • EMI.
    • Tr8.

  • Rudyard Kipling

    From The Cat who walked by Himself Read by Toby Jones

  • 00:14

    John Coltrane

    Syeeda聮s Song Flute

    Performer: John Coltrane.
    • Atlantic Jazz Masters.
    • Tr5.

  • Ralph Ellison

    From Invisible Man Read by Toby Jones

  • 00:23

    Philip Glass

    Metamorphosis 2

    • Sony.
    • Tr2.

  • William Carlos Williams

    Danse Russe Read by Toby Jones

  • 00:31

    Gy枚rgy Ligeti

    Sonata - Dialogo

    Performer: Matt Haimovitz.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.
    • Tr16.

  • Edward Thomas

    The Other Read by Toby Jones

  • 00:40

    Gy枚rgy Ligeti

    Sonata - Capriccio

    Performer: Matt Haimovitz.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.
    • Tr17.

  • Edward Thomas

    The Other Read by Toby Jones

  • 00:46

    Giacomo Puccini

    Tosca 聳 E lucevan le stelle

    Performer: Pl谩cido Domingo.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.
    • Tr16.

  • James Salter

    From Burning the Days Read by Toby Jones

  • 00:53

    Bob Dylan

    Knockin聮 on Heaven聮s Door from Dylan

    Performer: Bob Dylan.
    • Columbia.
    • Tr12.

  • George Herbert

    Affliction IV Selected poems of George Herbert Hutchinson Educational Read by Toby Jones

  • 00:57

    Hildegard von Bingen

    O Ignis Spiritus

    Performer: Vox Clamantis 聳 solo voice, Eve Kopli.
    • ECM.
    • Tr10.

  • John Williams

    From Stoner Read by Toby Jones

  • 01:05

    Johann Sebastian Bach

    Ich habe genug

    Performer: Lorraine Hunt Lieberson.
    • Nonesuch.
    • Tr1.

Broadcasts

  • Sun 9 Feb 2014 17:30
    大象传媒 Radio 3
  • Sun 22 Oct 2017 17:30
    大象传媒 Radio 3

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