大象传媒

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

• 00:00

  Jon Balke

  Anodyne 2

  Librettist: Yusef Komunyakaa. Choir: Trondheim Voices. Ensemble: Batagraf.

  • Grappa.
  • 493596.
  • 2.

• Osip Mandelstam - Somebody Gave Me This Body (trans - Paul Schmidt)

  Read by Sophie Robinson

• Walt Whitman - I Sing the Body Electric

  Read by Giles Terera

• 00:03

  Yusef Komunyakaa, David Cieri & Mike Brown

  Anodyne

  • White Dust.
  • 1.

• Walt Whitman - I Sing the Body Electric

  Read by Giles Terera

• 00:10

  Aaron Copland

  Fanfare For The Common Man

  Music Arranger: Keith Emerson. Performer: Emerson, Lake & Palmer.

  • Fanfare For The Common Man - PT. 1.
  • Atlantic 鈥�.
  • 3398.
  • 1.
• 00:13

  Arthur Bax

  The Maiden With The Daffodil

  Performer: Ashley Wass.

  • Piano Works, Vol. 3.
  • Naxos 鈥�.
  • 8.557769.
  • 3.

• Robert Browning - Rhyme for a Child Viewing a Naked Venus in a Painting of 鈥淭he Judgement of Paris鈥�

  Read by Sophie Robinson

• 00:17

  Richard Rodgers, Lorenz Hart

  My Funny Valentine

  Performer: Elvis Costello.

  • Armed Forces.
  • Rhino Records.
  • R2 78190.
  • 7.

• Eavan Boland - Self-Portrait on a Summer Evening

  Read by Sophie Robinson

• 00:19

  脡liane Radigue

  Naldjorlak I (Pour Violoncelle) - Mouvement 3

  Performer: Charles Curtis.

  • Naldjorlak I II III.
  • Shiiin 鈥�.
  • shiiin 9.
  • 3.

• Christina Rossetti - In an Artist's Studio

  Read by Giles Terera

• 00:24

  Jay Livingstone

  Mona Lisa

  Singer: Nat King Cole. Orchestra: Les Baxter and His Orchestra. Lyricist: Ray Evans.

  • Mona Lisa.
  • Capitol Records.
  • F1010.
  • 1.

• Anne Carson - Short Talk On The Mona Lisa

  Read by Sophie Robinson

• 00:27

  Sonny Sharrock

  Portrait Of Linda In Three Colors, All Black

  • Black Woman.
  • Vortex Records.
  • 2014.
  • 3.

• Anne Carson - Short Talk On Hedonism

  Read by Sophie Robinson

• 00:30

  Rachel Portman

  Mirror

  Orchestra: The City of Prague Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: David Snell.

  • Belle - Original Motion Picture Soundtrack.
  • Var猫se Sarabande 鈥�.
  • VSD-7278.
  • 5.

• Lord Byron - She Walks in Beauty

  Read by Giles Terera

• Jan Beatty - Sitting Nude

  Read by Sophie Robinson

• 00:34

  George Frideric Handel

  Semele, HWV 58: Act III Scene 3: Myself I shall adore

  Singer: Rosemary Joshua. Orchestra: Early Opera Company. Conductor: Christian Curnyn.

  • Handel: Semele.
  • Chandos.
  • CHAN 0745.
  • 10.

• Maya Angelou - Phenomenal Woman

  Read by the Author

• 00:41

  Cooper-Moore

  My Body Is My Body

  • Woo-men.
  • WFMU.
  • 1.
• 00:44

  William Onyeabor

  Fantastic Man

  • Tomorrow.
  • Wilfilms Records.
  • WRLP 1003.
  • 2.

• Claudia Rankine - Citizen - An American Lyric - VII

  Read by Giles Terera

• 00:47

  Kamala Sankaram

  Keeping The Look Loose

  Librettist: Claudia Rankine. Choir: Brooklyn Youth Chorus. Conductor: Dianne Berkun Menake.

  • Keeping The Look Loose.

• Rupert Brooke - Thoughts on the Shape of the Human Body

  Read by Sophie Robinson

• 00:49

  厂补濒迟鈥怤鈥怭别辫补

  I Am The Body Beautiful

  • To Wong Foo, Thanks For Everything! Julie Newmar - Music From The Motion Picture.
  • MCA Soundtracks.
  • MCAD-11231.
  • 1.

• Ella Wheeler Wilcox - I Love You

  Read by Sophie Robinson

• 00:52

  Elvis Presley

  Young And Beautiful

  • Jailhouse Rock.
  • RCA Victor 鈥�.
  • EPA-4114.
  • 2.

• Federico Garcia Lorca - Casida Of The Reclining Woman (trans - W.S. Merwin)

  Read by Giles Terera

• 00:54

  Charles Ives

  Study No. 21 "Some South-Paw Pitching"

  Performer: Donald Berman.

  • The Unknown Ives.
  • Composers Recordings Inc. (CRI) 鈥庘��.
  • CD 811.
  • 8.

• Mark Doty - At the Gym

  Read by Giles Terera

• 00:58

  William Horsley

  Slow Fresh Fount

  Ensemble: The Clerks of Christ Church. Librettist: Ben Jonson.

  • A Garland of the Elizabethan.
  • Somm Recordings.
  • SOMMCD 047.
  • 11.

• Craig Raine - Marcel鈥檚 Fancy Dress Party

  Read by Giles Terera

• 01:04

  Matmos

  California Rhinoplasty

  • A Chance To Cut Is A Chance To Cure.
  • Matador.
  • ole 489-2.
  • 7.

• Sylvia Plath - Face Lift

  Read by Sophie Robinson

• 01:08

  Billy Bragg

  The Busy Girl Buys Beauty

  • Life's A Riot With Spy Vs Spy.
  • Utility 鈥�.
  • UTIL 1.
  • 3.

• Thomas Hardy - I Look Into My Glass

  Read by Giles Terera

• 01:10

  Benjamin Britten

  6 Metamorphoses After Ovid - Op. 49 X: V. Narcissus

  • BRITTEN / SAUNDERS / JACKMAN: Music for Solo Oboe.
  • BIS.
  • BIS-CD-769.
  • 5.

• Constantine P Cavafy - Remember, Body鈥� (trans - Aliki Barnstone)

  Read by Sophie Robinson