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Classicist Llewelyn Morgan considers the problem of aspiring towards perfection, and how an acceptance, and even celebration, of our failings may be the better path to follow.

With readings from Orhan Pamuk, Horace and WB Yeats and music from Jascha Heifetz, John Foulds and Alessandro Scarlatti.

MUSIC

Music 1: Foulds: Kashmiri Boat Song
Performed by the London Salon Ensemble
(CD: The Art Deco Cafe)
Meridian 84361 Trk 14

Music 2: Taksim
Performed by Musique Soufi
(CD: The Dervishes of Turkey)
Playasound PS 65120 Trk 5

Music 3: Bach: ‘Ciaccona’
Partita Nr. 2 in D Minor BWV 1004
Performed by Jascha Heifetz
(CD: Bach: Sonaten and Partiten)
EMI CD 7644942 Trk 9

Music 4: Takemitsu: Clouds
Performed by Megumi Fujita (piano)
(CD: Takemitsu: Piano Pieces for Children)
ASV CD DCA 1120

Music 5: Scarlatti: Ave Lactea
Quae Est Ista
Performed by Il Seminario Musicale
(CD: Alessandro Scarlatti – Sacred Works)
Virgin Classics 5453662 Trk 33

Music 6: So What
Performed by Miles Davis
(CD: Kind of Blue)
Sony 88697439232 Trk 1

READINGS

Reading 1: Baburnama by Babur
Published by Modern Library

Poem 1: Epistles by Horace
Published by Kessinger Publishing

Reading 2: My Name is Red by Orhan Pamuk
Published by Faber and Faber

Reading 3: Letter to Jascha Heifetz from George Bernard Shaw

Poem 2: The Snow Party written by Derek Mahon.
Available in The Snow Party, published by Oxford University Press

Poem 3: Odes 2.10 by Horace.
Available in The Complete Odes and Epodes, published by Oxford
World Classics

Poem 4: Sailing to Byzantium by WB Yeats.
Available in The Collected Poems of W.B. Yeats, published by the
Wordsworth Poetry Library

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