This programme focuses on the theme of autumn and seasonal change: not just the idea of leaves coming off trees, but also of departure and transition as we move though the Fall towards winter…

Poems read and Music played

1. Sonnet that accompanies ‘Autumn’ (Antonio Vivaldi, from the ‘Four Seasons’)
2. ‘Autumn’ (Allegro, Adagio molto, Allegro) (Antonio Vivaldi) (played by Takako Nishizaki, violin, and the Capella Istropolitana, under Stephen Gunzenhauser)
3. ‘Autumn Birds’ (John Clare)
4. ‘Ode to Autumn’ (John Keats)
5. Piano Trio no. 2: Andante con moto, DV929 (Franz Schubert)(played by the Trio di Trieste)
6. ‘Fall, leaves, fall’ (Emily Bronte)
7. ‘Autumn Fires’ (Robert Louis Stevenson)
8. ‘Falling Leaves’ (Andrew Downing)
9. ‘My Sorrow’ (Robert Frost)
10. ‘November’ (Hartley Coleridge)
11. ‘September in the Rain’ (Peggy Lee)
12. ‘October’ & ‘November’ (Vita Sackville-West)
13. ‘Autumn’ (Francois Coppee)
14. ‘Les Feuilles Mortes’ (Joseph Kosma & Jacques Prevert; sung by Yves Montand)
15. ‘In Autumn’ (Paul Verlaine)
16. ‘De Profundis’ (Georg Trakl)
17. Cello Concerto in E minor: Adagio (Edward Elgar) (Jacqueline du Pre, with the London Symphony Orchestra, under Sir John Barbirolli)