Robert Louis Stevenson, Travels with a Donkey in the Cévennes (1879)

Texts read and Music played:

1. Letter from Stevenson to his mother, Oct 1874

2. Vaughan Williams, The Vagabond, from Songs of Travel (Stevenson)

3. “I travel not to go anywhere, but to go.”

4. Vincent d’Indy: Symphonie sur un chant montagnard français, 1^st movement

5. Equipment and buying the donkey Modestine

6. D’Indy, 2^nd movement

7. Leaving Le Monastier

8. D’Indy, 3^rd movement

9. Pradelles; the Beast; Langogne

10. Vincent d’Indy, Jour d’été à la montagne: Aurore

11. Poem: Here the tongue ceases…

12. D’Indy, Jour d’été: 2^nd movement

13. Chasserades; Modestine

14. D’Indy, Jour d’été: Soir

15. A Night among the Pines

16. Florac; The Heart of the Country

17. Canteloube: Chants d’Auvergne / Bailero

18. A ballad in Occitan: Quant vols ganhar joina pastorelona

19. The Last Day: Saint-Germain-de-Calberte

20. Night Walk to Saint-Jean-du-Gard; selling Modestine

21. I have trod…, from Songs of Travel

22. Richard Holmes, Footsteps (extract)

23. Claude Debussy, Nuages, from Nocturnes

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