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The Enclosed Garden

From paradise to The Secret Garden, the composer Michael Zev Gordon reflects on the peculiar magic of the enclosed garden. From the hopefulness of planting seeds to the delight of watching your garden grow.

A Falling Tree production for 大象传媒 Radio 4

28 minutes

Last on

Sun 23 Jan 2022 23:30

Music Played

  • Toru Takemitsu

    Spirit Garden

    Composer: Toru Takemitsu.
    • Takemitsu: Orchestral Works II.
    • Denon.
  • James Weeks

    Veni In Hortum Meum

    Performer: EXAUDI.
    • Unreleased.
  • Nicolas Gombert

    Hortus Conclusus Es

    • Gombert: Tribulatio et angustia.
    • Hyperion.
  • Manuel de Falla

    Nights in the Gardens of Spain

    Composer: Manuel de Falla.
    • Falla: Nights in the Gardens of Spain, 3-Cornered Hat, La Vida Breve.
    • Decca.
  • Bruce Springsteen

    Secret Garden

    • Bruce Springsteen: Greatest Hits.
    • Sony.
  • Anton Webern

    String Trio

    • String Trios.
    • Challenge Classics.
  • Joni Mitchell

    Woodstock

    • Ladies of the Canyon.
    • Sony.

Readings

The readers were Adjoa Andoh and Darren Altman听


Title: There Is Another Sky

Author: Emily Dickenson

Publisher: Heraklion Press

Title: Song of Songs

Text: The Holy Bible

Publisher: Harper Collins

Title: Come Into the Garden Maud

Author: Tennyson

Publisher: Wordsworth Editions

Title: History of Paradise: The Garden of Eden in Myth and Tradition

Author: Jean Delumeau

Publisher: University of Illinois Press

Title: The Secret Garden

Author: Frances Hodgeson Burnett

Publisher: Simon and Schuster UK

Title: Julian Johnson

Author: Webern and the Transformation of Nature

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Title: Four Quartets

Author: TS Eliot

Publisher: Faber and Faber

Broadcasts

  • Sun 28 Jun 2015 06:05
  • Sun 28 Jun 2015 23:30
  • Sun 23 Jan 2022 06:05
  • Sun 23 Jan 2022 23:30