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"Do you see this ring?" Susan Twist and Chris Jack read from Doris Lessing, Carol Ann Duffy, Shakespeare with music including Holst, John Adams and the end of Wagner's great cycle.

From Wagner and Valentines to ring roads, and the smoke rings made by the pipe of Sherlock Holmes: our readers are Susan Twist and Chris Jack and we鈥檒l hear music from Mozart鈥檚 composition for a glass harmonica and a Beethoven Rondo, Booker T and the MG鈥檚 Glass onion and the sound of a telephone conjured by the Penguin Caf茅 Orchestra. Howard Shore鈥檚 music for the Lord of the Rings films gives us Gollum, who liked describing the powerful one ring as 鈥渕y precious鈥�.

Produced in Salford by Ewa Norman

Readings:

John Donne: Devotions Upon Emergent Occasions - Meditation XVII
Doris Lessing: The Golden Notebook
William Shakespeare: The Merchant of Venice
Carol Ann Duffy: Valentine
Tolkien: The Lord of The Rings - The Fellowship of the Ring
Cathy Galvin: Walking the Coventry Ring Road with Lady Godiva
Sam Hickford: Poems Sketched upon the M60 鈥� First Journey: Moston
Virginia Woolf: The Waves
Graham Moore: The Last Days of Night
Joseph Silk: The Infinite Cosmos: Questions from the frontiers of cosmology
Simon Parkin: Elden Ring review 鈥� an unrivalled masterpiece of design and inventiveness
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley: Frankenstein
Ameen Rihani: A Sufi Song
Hermann Hesse: Wandering - Notes and Sketches
J. Walker McSpadden: Stories from Wagner
Robert Frost: Ring Around

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  • 00:23

    Arvo P盲rt

    Cantus in memoriam Benjamin Britten for string orchestra and bell

    Conductor: Jean鈥怞acques Kantorow. Performer: Juho Vartiainen. Performer: Tapiola Sinfonietta.
    • BIS.
    • BIS CD-834.
  • 00:20

    John Adams

    Road movies for violin and piano

    Performer: Callum Smart. Performer: Richard Uttley.
    • Orchid Classics.
  • 00:23

    Arvo P盲rt

    Cantus in memoriam Benjamin Britten for string orchestra and bell

    Conductor: Jean鈥怞acques Kantorow. Performer: Juho Vartiainen. Performer: Tapiola Sinfonietta.
    • BIS.
    • BIS CD-834.
  • 00:00

    Benjamin Britten

    Cantus in memoriam

    Performer: Tapiola Sinfonietta.
    • Part: Cantus in Memoriam.
    • BIS.
    • 5.

  • John Donne: Devotions upon Emergent Occasions

  • 00:30

    Simon Jeffes

    Telephone & Rubber Band

    Performer: Penguin Cafe Orchestra.
    • EG.
    • eegcd-11.
  • 00:30

    Simon Jeffes

    Telephone & Rubber Band

    Performer: Penguin Cafe Orchestra.
    • EG.
    • eegcd-11.
  • 00:05

    Penguin Cafe Orchestra

    Telephone and Rubber Band

    • Editions.
  • 00:06

    Big Thief

    Velvet Ring

    • Masterpiece.
    • Saddle Creek.
    • 9.
  • 00:09

    Franz Leh谩r

    Gold and Silver Waltz

    Performer: Vienna Philharmonic.
    • DG.

  • Doris Lessing: The Golden Notebook

  • 00:32

    Big Thief

    Velvet Ring

    • Saddle Creek.
    • LBJ-233.
  • 00:32

    Big Thief

    Velvet Ring

    • Saddle Creek.
    • LBJ-233.

  • Shakespeare:The Merchant of Venice

  • 00:35

    Franz Leh谩r

    Gold and silver - waltz Op.79

    Conductor: Sir John Eliot Gardiner. Performer: Vienna Philharmonic.
    • DG.
    • 4631852.
  • 00:35

    Franz Leh谩r

    Gold and silver - waltz Op.79

    Conductor: Sir John Eliot Gardiner. Performer: Vienna Philharmonic.
    • DG.
    • 4631852.
  • 00:13

    Booker T. & The M.G.'s

    Green Onions

    • Atlantic.

  • Carol Ann Duffy:Valentine

  • 00:39

    Booker T. & The M.G.'s

    GREEN ONIONS

    Music Arranger: N/A.
    • TELSTAR.
    • TCD-2524.
  • 00:39

    Booker T. & The M.G.'s

    GREEN ONIONS

    Music Arranger: N/A.
    • TELSTAR.
    • TCD-2524.
  • 00:41

    Richard Wagner

    Gotterdammerung

    Performer: Eric Halfvarson.
    • Gotterdammerung WWV 86D.
    • Naxos.
    • 14.
  • 00:41

    Howard Shore

    Roots and Beginnings

    Conductor: Howard Shore. Performer: London Philharmonic Orchestra. Performer: London Voices.
    • Reprise.
    • 9362 486092.
  • 00:41

    Howard Shore

    Roots and Beginnings

    Conductor: Howard Shore. Performer: London Philharmonic Orchestra. Performer: London Voices.
    • Reprise.
    • 9362 486092.
  • 00:44

    Howard Shore

    GOLLUM'S SONG (FROM THE FILM: THE LORD OF THE RINGS: THE TWO TOWERS)

    Music Arranger: N/A. Performer: Emil铆ana Torrini. Performer: Fran Walsh. Performer: Howard Shore.
    • Reprise Records.
    • 9362-48379-2.
  • 00:44

    Howard Shore

    GOLLUM'S SONG (FROM THE FILM: THE LORD OF THE RINGS: THE TWO TOWERS)

    Music Arranger: N/A. Performer: Emil铆ana Torrini. Performer: Fran Walsh. Performer: Howard Shore.
    • Reprise Records.
    • 9362-48379-2.
  • 00:16

    Howard Shore

    Roots and Beginnings

    Performer: London Philharmonic Orchestra.
    • The Lord of the Rings - the Return of hte Kings - The Complete Recordings.
    • Reprise.
    • 1.

  • Tolkein:The Fellowship of the Ring

  • 00:46

    John Adams

    Road movies for violin and piano

    Performer: Callum Smart. Performer: Richard Uttley.
    • ORCHID CLASSICS.
    • ORC100149.
  • 00:46

    John Adams

    Road movies for violin and piano

    Performer: Callum Smart. Performer: Richard Uttley.
    • ORCHID CLASSICS.
    • ORC100149.

  • Cathy Galvin:Walking the Coventry Ring Road with Lady Godiva

  • 00:26

    Eugene Gifford

    Smoke Rings

    Composer: Ned Washington. Performer: The Mills Brothers.
    • The Mills Brothers Collection 1931-52.
    • Fabulous.
    • 11.

  • Virginia Woolf: The Waves

  • 00:52

    The Mills Brothers

    Smoke Rings

    • Buzzola.
    • B2CD-014.
  • 00:52

    The Mills Brothers

    Smoke Rings

    • Buzzola.
    • B2CD-014.
  • 00:28

    Various Artists

    Elden Ring

    • Elden Ring Original Soundtrack.
    • SKU.
    • 1.

  • Graham Moore:The Last Days of Night

  • 00:30

    Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Adagio K.356 for glass harmonica

    Performer: Thomas Bloch.
    • Naxos.

  • Joseph Silk: The Infinite Cosmos: Questions from the frontiers of cosmology

  • 00:32

    Elden Ring

    • Elden Ring.
    • BandaiNamco.
    • 1.
    • 1.

  • Simon Parkin: Elden Ring

  • 00:34

    Trad.

    Traditional Anatolian: Sufi Dance

    Performer: Moslem Rahal. Performer: Siar Hashimi. Performer: Pedro Estevan.
    • Ibn Battuta The Traveller of Islam.
    • Alia Vox.
    • 26.

  • Mary Shelley: Frankenstein

  • 00:55

    Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Adagio in C major K.356 for glass harmonica

    Performer: Thomas Bloch.
    • NAXOS.
    • 8.555295.
  • 00:55

    Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Adagio in C major K.356 for glass harmonica

    Performer: Thomas Bloch.
    • NAXOS.
    • 8.555295.
  • 00:58

    Traditional Anatolian

    Sufi Dance

    Performer: Moslem Rahal. Performer: Pedro Estevan. Performer: Siar Hashimi.
    • ALIA VOX.
    • AVSA9930.
  • 00:58

    Traditional Anatolian

    Sufi Dance

    Performer: Moslem Rahal. Performer: Pedro Estevan. Performer: Siar Hashimi.
    • ALIA VOX.
    • AVSA9930.
  • 00:37

    Ludwig van Beethoven

    Sonata no.15 in D major

    Performer: Jonathan Biss.
    • Onyx.

  • Ameen Rihani: A Sufi Song

  • Hermann Hesse: Wandering Notes and Sketches

  • 01:00

    Ludwig van Beethoven

    Sonata no. 15 in D major Op.28 (Pastoral) for piano

    Performer: Jonathan Biss.
    • ONYX.
    • ONYX-4115.
  • 01:00

    Ludwig van Beethoven

    Sonata no. 15 in D major Op.28 (Pastoral) for piano

    Performer: Jonathan Biss.
    • ONYX.
    • ONYX-4115.
  • 01:05

    Richard Wagner

    Gotterdammerung [Part 4 of 'Der Ring des Nibelungen']

    Conductor: Jaap van Zweden. Performer: Eric Halfvarson. Performer: Hong Kong Philharmonic Orchestra.
    • NAXOS.
    • 8.660428-31.
  • 01:05

    Richard Wagner

    Gotterdammerung [Part 4 of 'Der Ring des Nibelungen']

    Conductor: Jaap van Zweden. Performer: Eric Halfvarson. Performer: Hong Kong Philharmonic Orchestra.
    • NAXOS.
    • 8.660428-31.

  • J Walker McSpadden: Stories from Wagner

  • Robert Frost: Ring Around

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