13.11.2023 - Playlist: texts read and music played 1. Lennon (& Co.): Now and Then 2. Beatles: I Saw her Standing There 3. Beatles: Misery 4. Beatles: Please Please me 5. Beatles: There’s a Place 6. Beatles: It Won’t Be Long 7. Beatles: Not a Second...
06.11.2023 - Love, Marriage, Weddings Playlist (texts read & music played) 1. Mendelssohn: Wedding March from ‘Ein Sommernachtstraum’ 2. Viviani: Sonata for Trumpet and Organ in C Major, Andante 3. Goethe: ‘This is the true season of...
23.10.2023 - Donnerstag, den 12. Oktober 2023: ‘Five o’clock Tea: Tea for Two?’ Playlist (texts read & music played) 1. ‘Tea for Two’ (Tahiti Trot), Shostakovich 2. Sorting out vocabulary 3. Brewing the tea: 6 stages 4. Tea-drinking etiquette...
09.10.2023 - Speziell zur Sendung am Donnerstag, den 28. September 2023: Thomas HARDY: Poems (2) Playlist: texts read & music played 1. Vaughan Williams: The Lark Ascending 2. George Butterworth: The Banks of Green Willow 3. Thomas Hardy (TH): Shelley’s...
09.10.2023 - Speziell zur Sendung am Donnerstag, den 14. September 2023: Thomas HARDY: Poems (1) Playlist: texts read & music played 1. Thomas Hardy (TH): A Wet August 2. TH: The Harbour Bridge 3. TH: Weathers 4. John Ireland: Weathers 5. TH: The...
09.10.2023 - Speziell zur Sendung am Donnerstag, den 24. August 2023: Alma and Oskar PLAYLIST (texts read & music played) 1. Debussy: Prélude à l’aprѐs-midi d’un faune 2. Kokoschka: Die Träumenden Knaben 3. E.H. Gombrich on Kokoschka 4. Schoenberg:...
09.10.2023 - Speziell zur Sendung am Donnerstag, den 10. August 2023: The Eye Playlist (texts read & music played) 1. ‘Eye of the Tiger’ (Survivor) 2. ‘I spy with my little eye….’ 3. ‘My eyes are dim, ….’ 4. UEA, Norwich (English...
31.07.2023 - Ernani (Verdi’s opera) Playlist: texts read & music played 1. Quotes from Der Standard and Die Presse (July 2023) 2. Verdi: Ernani (Preludio) 3. Come rugiada al cespite…. 4. Ernani involami…. 5. Da quel di che t’ho veduta…. 6....
24.07.2023 - Tributes to Tina Turner and Harry Belafonte – The Queen of Rock ‘n’ Roll and the King of Calypso are both now dead. Playlist: texts read and music played 1. The Lovin’ Spoonful: Summer in the City 2. Tina Turner (TT): I Can’t Stand...
03.07.2023 - NW Scotland (3) Playlist (texts read & music played) 1. Robert Burns: ‘My Heart’s in the Highlands’ (sung by Karine Polwart) 2. Neil Gunn: from ‘Butcher’s Broom’ 3. Rob Donn: ‘Glen Golly’ 4. Rob Donn: ‘My opinion of...
19.06.2023 - NW Scotland (2) Playlist (texts read & music played) 1. Robert Burns/ Joseph Haydn: ‘O’er the hills and far away’ 2. Sydney Tremayne: ‘Remote Country’ 3. Neil Gunn: ‘Highland River’ (extracts) 4. Kenneth C. Mackenzie: ‘A...
19.06.2023 - Roald Dahl Playlist (texts read and music played) 1. R. Dahl: ‘St.Ives’ 2. R. Dahl: ‘Hot and Cold’ 3. R. Dahl: ‘Little Red Riding Hood and the Wolf’ 4. R. Dahl: ‘James and the Giant Peach’ 5. ‘Eating the Peach’ (film musical)...
06.06.2023 - NW Scotland (1) Playlist: texts read & music played 1. ‘Over the Hills…’ (18thc. Scottish melody) 2. Hugh Macdiarmid: ‘The Watergau’ (1925) 3. Norman MacCaig: ‘The mountains swirl water…’ 4. A.C. Mackenzie: Violin Concerto...
06.06.2023 - British Pageantry 2022-2023 Our programme covers how the nation mourned the death of Queen Elizabeth II in September 2022, the pageantry surrounding it, and the commemorative music played. We quote from the report of a friend’s experiences...
