Greece: 5. The Island of Corfu

Texts read & music played:

1. Lorentzos Mavilis: Aphrodite of the Islands
2. Kostis Palamas: Corfu
3. Shakespeare: The Tempest (Caliban: ‘This island’s mine…’)
4. Thomas Ades: The Tempest, Scene 4
5. Michael Nyman: Noises, Sounds and Sweet Airs (‘This damned witch…’)
6. Shakespeare: The Tempest (‘The isle is full of noises…’)
7. Thomas Ades: The Tempest, Scene 2
8. Michael Nyman: Noises, Sounds and Sweet Airs
9. Lawrence Durrell: Prospero’s Cell
10. Lawrence Durrell: ‘Truth’ (poem)
11. Lawrence Durrell: The Greek Islands
12. Maurice Ravel: Daphnis et Chloe, Suite no. 2
13. Gastouriotikos Horos (traditional Corfu music)
14. Henry Miller: The Colossus of Maroussi
15. Amaranthos (traditional Corfu music)
16. Gerald Durrell: My Family and Other Animals
17. Brian Dicks: The Greek Islands
18. Edward Lear: There was an old person of Paxo… (limerick)
19. Noel Coward: Mad Dogs and Englishmen
20. Imnos stin Eleftheria (Hymn to Liberty): Greek National Anthem
21. Lawrence Durrell: The Greek Islands (on the Gorgon)
22. Sergei Rachmaninov: The Isle of the Dead
23. Elisabeth, Empress of Austria (‘Sisi’): Abschied und Rueckfahrt
24. Nana Mouscouri: Tora Pou Pas Stin Xenitia
25. Homer: The Odyssey, Book VII (extract)
26. Thomas Hardy: The Return of the Native
27. Jim Potts: Corfu (poem, from ‘Corfu Blues’)
28. Kato Ston Ai Giorgi (traditional Corfu song)