We take to the waves in this programme….exploring poems and music that evoke the sea!

Poems read and Music played

1. Hebrides Overture — Fingal’s Cave (Felix Mendelssohn)
2. Storm, from Four Sea Interludes ,from Peter Grimes (Benjamin Britten)
3. A Sailor’s Song (Paul Laurence Dunbar)
4. The Sea and Sinbad’s Ship, from Scheherezade (Rimsky Korsakov)
5. Ariel’s Song, from The Tempest (Shakespeare)
6. Where Corals Lie, from Sea Pictures (Edward Elgar)
7. from Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage (Byron)
8. The Sea Reivers (Granville Bantock)
9. A Sea Dirge (Lewis Carroll)
10. Under the Boardwalk (The Drifters)
11. The Owl and the Pussy-Cat (Edward Lear)
12. Sea Fever (poem by John Masefield)
13. Sea Fever (music by John Ireland)
14. Blow the Wind Southerly (sung by Kathleen Ferrier)
15. La Mer: De l’aube a midi sur la mer (Claude Debussy)
16. La Mer (Charles Trenet)
17. Tintagel (Arnold Bax)