Warmth
Actors Amanda Hale and Oliver Alvin-Wilson read a selection of poetry and prose wrapped in a varied selection of music exploring feelings and ideas about the nature of 'warmth'.
Actors Amanda Hale and Oliver Alvin-Wilson chart a course through our varied and various perceptions of warmth. The desire for comfort and cosiness. The warmth of affection, of friendship and of love. The attraction of warmer climes or the 鈥渨armth of other suns鈥. The anxiety of global warming.
George Orwell is 鈥榙own and out鈥 in a London winter; Alexander Pushkin counters a frozen Russian landscape with the passion of young love; Johann von Goethe bids us find warmth in the land where "citron-apples bloom"; Paul Kerschen ponders the thoughts of John Keats, recuperating in the Italian sunshine; Haruki Murikami rediscovers the warmth of a certain phrase of music; while Zadie Smith, looking up at the sky, suggests 鈥渆veryone knows it shouldn鈥檛 be this hot!鈥.
Other featured authors include John Donne, Charles Dickens, Johann Von Goethe, Isabel Wilkerson, DH Lawrence, Emile Zola, Emily Dickinson, Richard Wright and Bai Juyi.
Complementary strains of music are given to us by - among others - David Lang, Robert Schumann, Giacomo Puccini, Piotr Tchaikovsky, Georges Bizet, Johnny Dankworth, Tori Amos, Georgy Sviridov, William Grant Still and with the comforting familiarity of 鈥楾rad鈥.
Producer: Chris Wines
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Words & Music: Warmth TX 15.01.2023
Duration: 01:14:09
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Timings (where shown) are from the start of the programme in hours and minutes
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Georgia
Intro
00:01Gavin Bryars
Jesus' Blood Never Failed Me Yet
Ensemble: The Hampton String Quartet. Performer: Anon..- POINT MUSIC CD 442 412-2.
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00:01Gavin Bryars
Jesus' blood never failed me yet
Ensemble: Hampton String Quartet.George Orwell
Down And Out In London and Paris鈥 read by Oliver Alvin-Wilson
00:04Frederick Loewe
Wouldn鈥檛 It Be Loverly
Performer: Julie Andrews.00:04Frederick Loewe
Wouldn't it be loverly (My Fair Lady)
Singer: Julie Andrews.Hans Christian Andersen:
The Little Match Girl read by Amanda Hale
00:07David Lang
It was terribly cold
Performer: Matthew Brown. Performer: Michael Blanchard. Performer: Claire Fedoruk. Performer: Adriana Manfredi. Choir: Los Angeles Master Chorale. Conductor: Grant Gershon.- CANTALOUPE CA21119.
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00:07David Lang
The Little Match Girl Passion
Singer: Matthew Brown. Singer: Michael Blanchard.Hans Christian Andersen:
The Little Match Girl read by Amanda Hale
00:08David Lang
She lighted another match
Performer: Matthew Brown. Performer: Michael Blanchard. Performer: Claire Fedoruk. Performer: Adriana Manfredi. Choir: Los Angeles Master Chorale. Conductor: Grant Gershon.- CANTALOUPE CA21119.
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Hans Christian Andersen:
The Little Match Girl read by Amanda Hale
00:09David Lang
We sit and cry
Performer: Matthew Brown. Performer: Michael Blanchard. Performer: Claire Fedoruk. Performer: Adriana Manfredi. Choir: Los Angeles Master Chorale. Conductor: Grant Gershon.- CANTALOUPE CA21119.
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Hans Christian Andersen:
The Little Match Girl read by Amanda Hale
00:11Liu Tian Hua
Idyllic Tune
Performer: Yu Hong Mei, Wulin.- CHANNEL CLASSICS SKU 80206.
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00:11Yu Hong-mei
Idyllic Tune
Bai Juyi
Returning Late on the Road from Pingquan on a Winter's Day read by Oliver Alvin-Wilson
Ken Nesbitt
Hot Water read by Amanda Hale
Ken Nesbitt
Hot Water read by Oliver Alvin-Wilson
00:13Driftwood
Come Into The Warm
- BELL 1237.
00:12Giacomo Puccini
La Boh猫me - Act 1 - Questo Mar Rosso
Singer: Rolando Villaz贸n. Singer: Boaz Daniel. Singer: Vitalij Kowaljow. Orchestra: Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Bertrand de Billy.- DG 4776600.
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00:13Driftwood
Come Into The Warm
00:13Giacomo Puccini
Questo mar rosso (La Boheme)
Singer: Rolando Villaz贸n. Orchestra: Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Bertrand de Billy.Thomas de Quincy
Confessions of an Opium-Eater read by Oliver Alvin-Wilson
00:17Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
The Seasons - January - By The Fireside鈥
Performer: Mikhail Pletnev.- ERATO 4820552.
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00:17Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
January - By the fireside (The Seasons)
Performer: Mikhail Pletnev.00:23Victor Hely-Hutchinson
A Carol Symphony - 3rd Mvt: Andante quasi lento
Orchestra: The City of Prague Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Gavin Sutherland.- NAXOS 8.557099.
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00:23Victor Hely-Hutchinson
A Carol Symphony (3rd mvt)
Orchestra: The City of Prague Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Gavin Sutherland.Charles Dickens
A Christmas Carol read by Amanda Hale
00:24John Dankworth
Winter - When Icicles Hang By The Wall
Singer: Cleo Laine.- PHILIPS 830 462.
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00:24Cleo Laine
When Icicles Hang by the Wall
Emily Dickinson
To See Her Is A Picture read by Oliver Alvin-Wilson
00:26Henry Purcell
King Arthur - Act 3, Tis Love That Hath Warm'd Ye
Singer: Elisabeth Priday. Choir: Monteverdi Choir. Ensemble: English Baroque Soloists. Conductor: Sir John Eliot Gardiner.- ERATO 2292-45211-2.
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00:26Henry Purcell
'Tis love that hath warm'd thee (King Arthur)
Orchestra: English Baroque Soloists. Conductor: Sir John Eliot Gardiner.00:28John Dowland
Mrs Winter's Jump
Performer: Jakob Lindberg.- BRILLIANT CLASSICS 93698.
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William Shakespeare
Sonnet 2 read by Oliver Alvin-Wilson
00:28John Dowland
Mrs Winter's Jump
Performer: Jakob Lindberg.00:29Tori Amos
Winter
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00:29Tori Amos
Winter
00:35Georges Bizet
Symphony in C - Mvt 2 Adagio
Orchestra: Scottish Chamber Orchestra. Composer: Fran莽ois Leleux.- LINN CKD624.
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00:35Georges Bizet
Symphony in C (2nd mvt)
Orchestra: Scottish Chamber Orchestra. Conductor: Fran莽ois Leleux.脡mile Zola
The Fortune of the Rougons read by Amanda Hale
00:38Donny McCaslin
A Song The Children Dance To
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00:38Warmth
A Song the Children Dance to
John Donne
The Sun Rising Read by Oliver Alvin-Wilson
DH Lawrence
Lady Chatterley鈥檚 Lover read by Amanda Hale
00:42Georgy Sviridov
The Snowstorm - 1.Troika
Orchestra: Moscow Radio Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Vladimir Fedoseyev.- ALTO ALC1317.
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00:42Georgy Sviridov
Troika (The Snowstorm)
Orchestra: USSR TV Radio Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Vladimir Fedoseyev.Alexander Pushkin
The Blizzard from The Tales Of The Late Ivan Petrivich Beikin read by Amanda Hale
00:45Robert Schumann
Kennst Du Das Land?
Performer: Barbara Sukowa. Performer: Reinbert de Leeuw. Ensemble: Sch枚nberg Ensemble.- WINTER & WINTER 9101322.
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00:45Robert Schumann
Kennst du das Land?
Singer: Barbara Sukowa. Ensemble: Sch枚nberg Ensemble.Johann von Goethe
Mignon鈥檚 Song - Wilhelm Meister read by Amanda Hale
00:48Franz Schubert
Meeresstille
Singer: Barbara Sukowa. Ensemble: Sch枚nberg Ensemble.00:48Franz Schubert
Meeresstille
Performer: Barbara Sukowa. Performer: Reinbert de Leeuw. Ensemble: Sch枚nberg Ensemble.- WINTER & WINTER 9101322.
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Paul Kerschen
The Warm South read by Oliver Alvin-Wilson
00:51Hugo Wolf
Serenade in G Italian Serenade
Performer: Brodsky Quartet.- CHANDOS CHAN 10761.
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00:51Hugo Wolf
Italian Serenade
Ensemble: Brodsky Quartet.00:57William Grant Still
Symphony No 1 African American, Mvt 1 - Longing
Orchestra: Detroit Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Neeme J盲rvi.- CHANDOS CHAN 9154.
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00:57William Grant Still
Symphony no.1 (African-American) (1st mvt: Longing)
Orchestra: Detroit Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Neeme J盲rvi.Paul Lawrence Dunbar
In Summer read by Amanda Hale
Isabel Wilkerson
The Warmth of Other Suns read by Amanda Hale
Richard Wright
The Black Boy read by Oliver Alvin-Wilson
01:01Anushka
Too Hot Outside
- BANDCAMP.
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01:01Anushka
Too Hot Outside
Zadie Smith
NW read by Oliver Alvin-Wilson
Daniel Sherrell
Coming of Age at the End of Our World Read by Amanda Hale
01:03Peter Gregson
Warmth
Performer: Carducci String Quartet.- DG Digital Download.
01:09Trad.
O Danny Boy
Singer: Ren茅e Fleming. Orchestra: Philharmonia Orchestra. Conductor: Sebastian Lang-Lessing.10:07Gustavo Santaolalla
The Last Of Us - Forgotten Memories
01:03Peter Gregson
Warmth
Ensemble: Carducci String Quartet.01:07Gustavo Santaolalla
Forgotten Memories (The Last of Us)
Haruki Murikami
Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End Of The World read by Oliver Alvin-Wilson
01:09Trad.
O Danny Boy
Lyricist: Frederick Edward Weatherly. Singer: Ren茅e Fleming. Orchestra: Philharmonia Orchestra. Conductor: Sebastian Lang-Lessing.- DECCA 4785107.
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