Athens

Texts read & music played:

1. Nana Mouscouri: The White Rose of Athens
2. Shakespeare: A Midsummer Night’s Dream (extract)
3. P.B. Shelley: Ode to Liberty (extract)
4. John Milton: Paradise Regain’d (extract)
5. Nana Mouscouri: Ta Pedia Tou Pirea (Never on Sunday)
6. Lord Byron: The Curse of Minerva (extracts)
7. Music of Ancient Greece: Anakrousis
8. Mary Beard: The Parthenon
9. Lord Byron: Maid of Athens (extract)
10. John Keats: Ode on a Grecian Urn (extract)
11. Claude Debussy: Préludes Book 1: Danseuses de Delphes
12. Herman Melville: The Parthenon (extract)
13. Stephen Spender: In Attica (extract)
14. Erik Satie: Gnossienne no. 1
15. Edward Lear: extract from letter to his sister
16. Lawrence Durrell: Delos (extract)
17. Erik Satie: Gymnopédie no. 1
18. Plato: The Last Days of Socrates
19. Erik Satie: La Mort de Socrate (ending)
20. Music of Ancient Greece: a Delphic Hymn to Apollo
21. Jannis Ritsos: Athens 1970
22. Mikis Theodorakis: music from the soundtrack of the film ‘Z’
23. Giorgios Daláras: Things will Change