Beating Time
Samira Ahmed drums her fingers and explores time. She talks to the conductor Charles Hazlewood about holding an orchestra to the beat and considers the impatience of Henri Bergson.
Samira Ahmed drums her fingers and explores waiting, measuring and keeping time. She talks to the conductor Charles Hazlewood about why holding an orchestra to the beat is like persuading a pony round the paddock and considers the impatience of Henri Bergson who understood the nature of time as he mixed himself a drink.
The programme includes readings from works by Virginia Woolf, RS Thomas and Rosa Luxemburg, with music by Chopin, Messiaen and Brian Eno.
The readers are Emily Joyce and Hazel Holder.
Producer: Natalie Steed
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The secret musical life of metronomes, prison camps & airport lounges
Music Played
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Fr茅d茅ric Chopin
Waltz No.11 in G flat, Op.70 No.1
Performer: Vladimir Ashkenazy.- Chopin: Favourite Piano Works.
- London.
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Brian Eno
1/1
- Ambient 1 Music For Airports.
- Editions EG.
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Gy枚rgy Ligeti
Pohme Symphonique for 100 Metronomes
Performer: Frangoise Terrioux.- Ligeti: Works for Barrel-Organ & Player Piano.
- Sony.
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Olivier Messiaen
Quatuor pour la fin du temps: VIII. Louange 脿 l'Immortalit茅 de J茅sus
Performer: Olli Mustonen. Performer: Joshua Bell. Performer: Steven Isserlis. Performer: Michael Collins.- Messiaen: Quatuor pour le fin du temps.
- DECCA.
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Dave Brubeck
Unsquare Dance
Performer: The Dave Brubeck Quartet.- Dave Brubeck, The Very Best.
- Columbia.
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Jacques Brel
La Valse 脌 Mille Temps
Performer: Jacques Brel.- Quinze ans d'amour - Best of Brel.
- Barclay.
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Sarvar Sabri
Banjara
Performer: Sarvar Sabri.- Masters Of Percussion.
- Arc Music.
Readings
Title: Insomnia Song, from Acquainted with the Night: Insomnia Poems (anthology)
Author: Gregory Orr
Publisher: Columbia Press
滨厂叠狈:听023111544
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Title: Extract from Creative Evolution; Chapter 1: The Evolution of Life, Mechanism and Teleology
Author: Henri Bergson (trans Arthur Mitchell)
Publisher: Dover Publications Inc
ISBN: 0486400360
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Title: Extract from The Waves
Author: Virginia Woolf
Publisher: Harper Collins
ISBN: 0586044523
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Title: Extract from Letter to Sophie Liebknecht, Breslau, December 1917
Author: Rosa Luxemburg
Publisher: London: Independent Labour Party 1972. (Square One Pamphlets) (1972)
ISBN:听
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Title: Clockwork, from Communion used by permission of flipped eye publishing; Recording used by permission of The Poetry Archive
Author: Jacob Sam La Rose
Publisher: flipped eye publishing
ISBN: 1905233051
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Title: Extract from, A Portion of the Journal Kept by Thomas Raikes, Esq.,
Author: Thomas Raikes
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108045251
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Title: Kneeling, from The Collected Poems
Author:听 R S Thomas
Publisher: Phoenix
ISBN: 0753811057
Broadcasts
- Sun 5 Oct 2014 06:05大象传媒 Radio 4
- Sun 5 Oct 2014 23:30大象传媒 Radio 4