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Feuds, Rivalries, Arguments and Quarrels

Arguing gods, quarrelling composers and sibling rivalry: Pooky Quesnel and Andonis Anthony read poems and prose on the theme of feuds and arguments from the petty to the deadly.

It's hatred rather than love that inspires us this week as we turn our attention to feuds, rivalries, arguments and quarrels. We feature literary spats between the Romantic poets; Katherine Mansfield and Virginia Woolf; and Lord Byron and pretty much everyone. Plus sibling rows, family feuds, and lovers at odds, as well as stand-offs between gangs, good versus evil in Heaven and one man鈥檚 quest to hunt a certain whale. The musical rivalries include Mozart v Salieri, Brahms v Liszt and Debussy v Ravel.

Readers: Andonis Anthony & Pooky Quesnel
Producer: Jessica Treen

Readings:
John Milton: Paradise Lost
Jilly Cooper: Rivals
Percy Bysshe Shelley: To Wordsworth
Thomas Carlyle: Letter to Robert Browning
Lord Byron: English Bards, And Scotch Reviewers (extract)
Percy Bysshe Shelley: Letter to Thomas Love Peacock
Lord Byron: Don Juan (extract)
Charles Lamb: Letter to Bernard Barton
Eleanor Farejon: The Quarrel
Edward Albee: Who鈥檚 Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
Roger Lewis: Erotic Vagrancy
Emily Bronte: Wuthering Heights
Anon (trans. H.A Bellows): The Poetic Edda
Herman Melville: Moby Dick
EF Benson: Mapp & Lucia
RF Kuang: Yellowface
Margaret Drabble: A Summer Bird Cage
AS Byatt: The Game
Zadie Smith: On Beauty
Virginia Woolf: The Diary of Virginia Woolf, Vol. 2: 1920-1924

1 hour, 14 minutes

Last on

Sun 29 Sep 2024 18:00

Music Played

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

  • 00:00

    Dmitry Shostakovich

    Quartet for strings no. 8 (Op.110) in C minor, 2nd movement; Allegro molto

    Performer: St. Petersburg String Quartet.
    • Hyperion.
    • Tr10.
  • John Milton

    Paradise Lost

  • 00:01

    Dmitry Shostakovich

    Quartet for strings no. 8 (Op.110) in C minor, 2nd movement; Allegro molto

    Performer: St. Petersburg String Quartet.
    • String Quartets Nos 4, 6 & 8.
    • Hyperion.
    • 1.
  • 00:02

    Nicholas Britell

    Succession (Main Title Theme)

    Performer: Nicholas Britell.
    • Milan.
    • Tr1.
  • 00:04

    Nicholas Britell

    Succession (Main Title Theme)

    Performer: Nicholas Britell.
    • Succession: Season 1 (HBO Original Series Soundtrack).
    • Milan.
    • 1.
  • Jilly Cooper

    Rivals

  • 00:05

    Franz Liszt

    Piano Sonata in B Minor, S. 178: Cantando espressivo

    Performer: Martha Argerich.
    • Deutsche Grammophon (DG).
    • Tr11.
  • 00:06

    Franz Liszt

    Piano Sonata in B Minor, S. 178: Cantando espressivo

    Performer: Martha Argerich.
    • Steinway Legends: Martha Argerich.
    • Deutsche Grammophon (DG).
    • 1.
  • 00:08

    B茅la Bart贸k

    Allegro Barbaro

    Performer: Zolt谩n Kocsis.
    • PHILIPS.
    • Tr4.
  • 00:11

    Luigi Boccherini

    String Quintet in E Major, Op. 11 No. 5, G. 275: III. Minuetto

    Performer: Jamie Laredo.
    • Sony Classical.
    • Tr7.
  • 00:08

    B茅la Bart贸k

    Allegro Barbaro

    Performer: Zolt谩n Kocsis.
    • Zoltan Kocsis plays Bartok.
    • Philips.
    • 1.
  • Percy Bysshe Shelley

    To Wordsworth

  • Thomas Carlyle

    Letter to Robert Browning

  • 00:11

    Luigi Boccherini

    String Quintet in E Major, Op. 11 No. 5, G. 275: III. Minuetto

    Performer: Jamie Laredo.
    • Sony Classical.
  • Lord Byron

    English Bards, And Scotch Reviewers (extract)

  • Percy Bysshe Shelley

    Letter to Thomas Love Peacock

  • Lord Byron

    Don Juan (Extract)

  • Charles Lamb

    Letter to Bernard Barton

  • 00:13

    Lee 鈥淪cratch鈥 Perry

    People Funny Boy

    Performer: Lee 鈥淪cratch鈥 Perry.
    • Sanctuary Records.
    • Tr17.
  • 00:13

    Lee 鈥淪cratch鈥 Perry

    People Grudgeful

    Performer: Sir Gibbs.
    • Trojan.
    • Tr4.
  • 00:14

    Lee 鈥淪cratch鈥 Perry

    People Funny Boy

    Performer: Lee 鈥淪cratch鈥 Perry.
    • People Funny Boy: The Early Upsetter Singles.
    • Sanctuary Records.
    • 1.
  • Eleanor Farjeon

    The Quarrel

  • 00:15

    Lee 鈥淪cratch鈥 Perry

    People Grudgeful

    Singer: Sir Gibbs.
    • The Reggae Train.
    • Trojan.
    • 1.
  • 00:15

    Sergey Prokofiev

    Cinderella-Suite Nr. 1, Op. 107: III. Quarrel

    Performer: Yuri Temirkanov.
    • Signum Classics.
    • Tr103.
  • 00:17

    Sergey Prokofiev

    Cinderella-Suite Nr. 1, Op. 107: III. Quarrel

    Conductor: Yuri Temirkanov.
    • Prokofiev: Excerpts from Cinderella and Romeo & Juliet.
    • Signum Classics.
    • 1.
  • Edward Albee

    Who鈥檚 Afraid of Virginia Woolf

  • 00:19

    Charlie Parker & Dizzy Gillespie

    Leap Frog

    • Documents.
    • Tr25.
  • 00:20

    Roger Lewis

    Erotic Vagrancy

  • 00:21

    Charlie Parker

    Leap Frog

    Performer: Charlie Parker. Performer: Dizzy Gillespie.
    • Charlie Parker.
    • Documents.
    • 1.
  • Emily Bronte

    Wuthering Heights

  • 00:24

    Brandy & Monica

    The Boy is Mine

    • Atlantic Records.
    • Tr3.
  • 00:25

    Gustav Holst

    The Planets Suite, Op. 32: I. Mars

    Performer: London Philharmonic Orchestra.
    • London Philharmonic Orchestra.
    • Tr101.
  • 00:25

    LaShawn Daniels

    The Boy is Mine

    Performer: Brandy. Performer: Monica.
    • Never Say Never.
    • Atlantic.
    • 1.
  • 00:26

    Gustav Holst

    The Planets Suite, Op. 32: I. Mars

    Performer: London Philharmonic Orchestra.
    • Holst: The Planets.
    • 1.
  • Unknown (trans HA Bellows)

    The Poetic Edda

  • Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

    Eugene Onegin: Duel Scene

    Performer: Dmitri Hvorostovsky.
    • Philips.
    • 8.
  • 00:32

    Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

    Eugene Onegin: Duel Scene

    Performer: Dmitri Hvorostovsky.
    • Eugene Onegin.
    • 8.
  • 00:37

    Benjamin Britten

    4 Sea interludes [from 'Peter Grimes'] (Op.33a) no.4; Storm

    Performer: London Symphony Orchestra.
    • London Symphony Orchestra.
    • Tr14.
  • Herman Melville

    Moby Dick

  • 00:37

    Benjamin Britten

    Peter Grimes

    Performer: London Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Steuart Bedford.
    • Britten - London Symphony Orchestra, Stuart Bedford.
    • LSO.
    • 14.
  • 00:40

    Mozart

    Andante and 5 variations K.501 for piano duet

    Performer: Radu Lupu.
    • SONY.
    • Tr10.
  • E.F Benson

    Mapp & Lucia

  • 00:50

    Irving Berlin

    Anything You Can Do

    Performer: Ethel Merman.
    • Annie Get Your Gun Soundtrack.
    • Verve.
    • 12.
  • 00:51

    Georges Bizet

    Carmen - Act 1; Au secours! [chorus]

    Performer: Ambrosian Singers.
    • 111 Years of Deutsche Grammophon: The Collectors' Edition 2.
    • 16.
  • 00:53

    Antonio Salieri

    Symphony in D Major, 'Veneziana': II. Andantino grazioso - Presto

    Performer: English Chamber Orchestra.
    • Universal.
    • Tr.
  • 00:41

    Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Andante and 5 variations K.501 for piano duet

    Performer: Radu Lupu.
    • Mozart: Concertos For Two & Three Pianos.
    • Sony.
    • 10.
  • 00:47

    Antonio Salieri

    Symphony in D Major, 'Veneziana': II. Andantino grazioso - Presto

    Performer: English Chamber Orchestra.
    • Sinfonia - Salieri, J.C. Bach, Arne, Purcell, Albinoni, Pachelbel.
    • Universal.
    • 1.
  • Rebecca F Kuang

    Yellowface

  • 00:49

    Irving Berlin

    Anything You Can Do

    Performer: Ethel Merman.
    • Verve.
    • Tr12.
  • 00:50

    Bizet

    Carmen - Act 1; Au secours! [chorus]

    Performer: Ambrosian Singers.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.
    • Tr16.
  • 00:53

    Beethoven

    Concerto for piano and orchestra no. 4 (Op.58) ..., 2nd mvt; Andante con moto

    Performer: Daniel Barenboim.
    • Decca.
    • Tr.
  • 00:54

    Ludwig van Beethoven

    Concerto for piano and orchestra no. 4 (Op.58) ..., 2nd mvt; Andante con moto

    Performer: Daniel Barenboim.
    • Daniel Barenboim Staatskapelle Berlin Beethoven For All The Piano Concertos.
    • Decca.
    • 1.
  • Margaret Drabble

    A Summer Bird-Cage

  • AS Byatt

    The Game

  • 00:57

    Bette Davis & Debbie Burton

    Whatever Happened to Baby Jane?

    • At the Movies, Inc..
    • Tr11.
  • 00:59

    Bette Davis & Debbie Burton

    Whatever Happened to Baby Jane?

    • Hollywood Movie Stars Sing.
    • At the Movies.
    • 11.
  • 00:59

    Rebecca Clarke

    Morpheus for viola and piano

    Performer: Kenneth Martinson.
    • Centaur.
    • Tr3.
  • 01:06

    Marry Waterson & David A. Jaycock

    Forgive Me

    • One Little Independent Records.
    • Tr9.
  • Zadie Smith

    On Beauty

  • Virginia Woolf

    The Diary of Virginia Woolf, Vol. 2: 1920-1924

  • 01:01

    Rebecca Clarke

    Morpheus for viola and piano

    Performer: Kenneth Martinson.
    • Rebecca Clarke: String Chamber Music.
    • Centaur.
    • 3.
  • 01:04

    Marry Waterson

    Forgive me

    Composer: David A. Jaycock. Performer: David A. Jaycock. Performer: Marry Waterson.
    • Death Had Quicker Wings Than Love.
    • One Little Independent Records.
    • 9.
  • 01:04

    Gabriel Faur茅

    脡l茅gie in C Minor, Op. 24 (Version for Cello & Piano)

    Performer: Steven Isserlis.
    • BIS.
    • Tr301.
  • 01:08

    Igor Stravinsky

    The Rite of Spring, Pt.1; Ritual of the rival tribes (Jeux des cites rivales) -

    Performer: Antal Dor谩ti.
    • Decca.
    • Tr20.
  • Bing Crosby

    Let's Call The Whole Thing Off

    Singer: Rosemary Clooney.
    • Bing Crosby.
    • 9.
  • 01:09

    Igor Stravinsky

    The Rite of Spring, Pt.1; Ritual of the rival tribes (Jeux des cites rivales)

    Performer: Antal Dor谩ti.
    • Stravinsky: Le Sacre du Printemps: Detroit Symphony Orchestra, Dorati.
    • 20.
  • 01:11

    George Gershwin

    Let's Call The Whole Thing Off

    Composer: Ira Gershwin. Performer: Bing Crosby. Performer: Rosemary Clooney.
    • Bing and Rosie - The Crosby Clooney Radio Sessions.
    • Bing Crosby Enterprises.
    • 9.

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