Winter
The theme here is Winter: Poems and Music evoking the atmosphere and spirit of Winter.

Poems read and Music played:

1. ‘Welcome Winter’ by Roger McGough
2. ‘Winter’: allegro non molto, largo, allegro (from the ‘Four Seasons’, by Vivaldi)
3. ‘Winter has got me in its grip’ (Don McLean)
4. ‘The Winter’s Spring’, by John Clare
5. ‘Spellbound’ by Emily Bronte
6. ‘Des Pas sur la Neige’ (from Preludes, Book 1, no.6, by Debussy)
7. ‘The Hurdy-Gurdy Man’, by Wilhelm Müller
8. ‘Der Leiermann’ (from ‘Die Winterreise’, by Schubert, sung by Peter Schreier, with Andras Schiff on piano)
9. ‘Woods in Winter’, by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
10. ‘Les Patineurs’ (‘The Skaters’ Waltz), by Emile Waldteufel
11. ‘Winter Time’, by Robert Louis Stevenson
12. ‘Sleigh Ride’, by Leroy Anderson
13. ‘A Winter Ride’, by Amy Lowell
14. ‘Troika’ (from the ‘Lieutenant Kije’ Suite), by Prokofiev
15. ‘Winter’, by Walter de la Mare
16. ‘The Garden in Winter’, by Lucy Maud Montgomery
17. ‘December’, by Vita Sackville-West
18. ‘Apples in Winter’ (an Irish jig)
19. ‘Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening’, by Robert Frost
20. Symphony no.1 in G minor (‘Winter Daydreams’), Adagio cantabile ma non tanto, by Tchaikovsky (played by the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra Amsterdam, under Bernhard Haitink)