Women Beware Women
Texts and music on the theme of women, with readings by Anne Reid and Michelle Terry.
Women Beware Women is an unashamed tribute - not to the bloodthirsty vision of Middleton's Jacobean tragedy from which it borrows a title but to some of the poetry and prose written by women and to some of the music they've composed.
As you might expect there's quite a range - from Virginia Woolf and Djuna Barnes to Elizabeth Bishop and Anna Wickham; and from Ute Lemper to Meredith Monk and Lili Boulanger. Mothers and daughters; lovers, children, friends and missing men - they're all part of a programme, which while not polemical does try to sketch out the profile of a distinct sensibility. In the end the title is an invitation rather than a warning. It could hardly be anything else with Anne Reid and Michelle Terry acting as the hosts.
Producer: Zahid Warley.
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Music Played
Timings (where shown) are from the start of the programme in hours and minutes
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00:00Meredith Monk
Travelling
Performer: Meredith Monk.- ECM.
- Tr2.
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May Swenson
The Centaur Read by Anne Reid and Michelle Terry
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00:08Unsuk Chin
From Six Piano Etudes- In C
Performer: Mei Yi Foo.- Odradek.
- Tr15.
Jorie Graham
Cagnes sur Mer 1950 Read by Anne Reid and Michelle Terry
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00:17Elizabeth Maconchy
Prayer Before Birth
Performer: 大象传媒 Singers conducted by Odaline de la Martinez.- Lorelt.
- Tr16.
Anna Wickham
Nervous Prostration Read by Anne Reid
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00:24Kurt Weill
Ballade von der sexuellen Horigkeit
Performer: Ute Lemper.- Decca.
- Tr5.
Emily Berry
Letter to Husband Read by Michelle Terry
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00:29Laurie Anderson
O Superman( for Massenet)
Performer: Laurie Anderson.- Nonesuch.
- Tr6.
Virginia Woolf
From Mrs Dalloway Read by Anne Reid
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00:42Thea Musgrave
From The Seasons - Autumn
Performer: Victoria Soames and the 大象传媒 Scottish Symphony Orchestra.- Cala.
- Tr7.
Elizabeth Bishop
At the Fishhouses Read by Anne Reid
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00:55Gubaidulina
Song of the Fisherman from Musical toys
Performer: Mei Yi Foo.- Odradek.
- Tr6.
Djuna Barnes
From Nightwood Read by Michelle Terry
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00:59Hildegard von Bingen
O nos peregrine sumus from Ordo Virtutum
Performer: Sequentia.- DHM.
- Tr3.
Tess Gallagher
Black Silk Read by Michelle Terry
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01:02Lili Boulanger
Vieux Priere Bouddhique
Performer: Monterverdi Choir, London Symphony Orchestra.- Deutsche Grammophon.
- Tr3.
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01:11Hymn by Joyce Grenfell
- EMI.
- Tr6.
Producer's Note
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As you might expect there鈥檚 quite a range 鈥� from Virginia Woolf and Djuna Barnes to Elizabeth Bishop and Anna Wickham; and from Ute Lemper to Meredith Monk and Lili Boulanger. Mothers and daughters; lovers, children, friends and missing men 鈥� they鈥檙e all part of a programme, which while not polemical听 does try to sketch out听 the profile of a distinct sensibility. In the end the title is an invitation rather than a warning.听 It could hardly be anything else with Anne Reid and Michelle Terry acting as听the hosts.
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Producer: Zahid Warley
Broadcasts
- Sun 16 Feb 2014 17:30大象传媒 Radio 3
- Sun 28 Feb 2016 17:30大象传媒 Radio 3
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