18.11.2024 - The 1745 and ‘Outlander’ Playlist (texts read & music played): Melody of the Skye Boat Song (2x) Text of the Skye Boat Song (H. Boulton) Charles Edward Stuart (‘Bonnie Prince Charlie’) landing on Eriskay J.A. Carruth: ‘The...
28.10.2024 - Karl Jenkins: L’Homme Armé – A Mass for Peace Karl Jenkins’s L’Homme Armé: A Mass for Peace is being performed in Innsbruck with the University Orchestra , on Saturday October 26th at 19.30, in the Messehalle. Karl Jenkins...
28.10.2024 - Scots in Canada Runrig: ‘Alba’ ‘Canadian Boat Song’ (1829) Longfellow: ‘Evangeline’ (1847) A Breton Dance Runrig: ‘The Mighty Atlantic’ William MacGibbon: ‘The Water is Wide’ (1762) John Somerville: ‘Uallach Na Mara’...
08.10.2024 - From Cologne to Würzburg Playlist (texts read & music played) 1. Robert Schumann: Symphony no. 3 (Rhenish) 2. Robert Schumann/ Heinrich Heine: Dichterliebe – Im Rhein, im heiligen Strome… 3. (ditto) : Die alten, bōsen Lieder 4. George...
08.10.2024 - Byron Playlist (texts read & music played) Byron (1788 – 1824) on himself Derek Jacobi introduces Byron Byron: Dark Lochnagar Phil Coulter (arr.): Lochnagar Lady Caroline Lamb on Byron Byron: Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage (extracts from...
27.08.2024 - Paris Olympics 1924 – 2024 Playlist Vangelis: Chariots of Fire – Titles Sally Magnusson: The Flying Scotsman – The Eric Liddell Story (2007) Duncan Hamilton: For the Glory – The Life of Eric Liddell (2016) Vangelis: Chariots of Fire –...
27.08.2024 - Taylor Swift: a Tortured Soul? Music played (all by Taylor Swift): 1. Fortnight 2. The Tortured Poets Department 3. My Boy Only Breaks His Favorite Toys 4. So Long, London 5. Guilty as Sin? 6. I Can Do It with a Broken Heart 7. The Alchemy
27.08.2024 - Off to the Auvergne… Playlist (texts read and music played) 1. Georges Brassens: Chanson pour l’Auvergnat 2. Vincent d’Indy: Symphonie sur un chant montagnard français 3. Marie-Joseph Canteloube on his background 4. Canteloube: Trois...
27.08.2024 - Françoise Hardy & 1960s France Playlist (texts read & music played) 1. Françoise Hardy: Tous les garçons et les filles de mon âge 2. Oh, Oh Chéri 3. On se plait 4. J’ai jeté mon coeur 5. Va pas prendre un tambour 6. Avant de t’en...
04.07.2024 - Playlist (texts read & music played) 1. Pink Floyd: We don’t need no education…. 2. B.F. Skinner: Education…. 3. R.S. Thomas: Children’s Song 4. Gervase Phinn: Creative Writing 5. Albert Einstein: The art of a teacher…. 6. Tim...
25.06.2024 - Playlist (texts read & music played) 1. Erik Satie: Gymnopédie no. 1 (Jacques Loussier trio) 2. Roger McGough: Once upon a …. Love 3. Satie: Gnossiennes nos. 3, 6, 2, 4, 5 4. James Joyce: With lights of amethyst… 5. Joyce: from Dubliners...
11.06.2024 - Playlist (texts read & music played) 1. Franz Kafka: ‘The Trees’ 2. Kafka in his diary, Sept 23 1912 3. ‘The Metamorphosis’ (start) 4. Stephen Spender on Kafka’s work (1935) 5. Edward Sackville-West on ‘The Trial’ (1937)...
11.06.2024 - Playlist: texts read and music played 1. Christina Rossetti/ Gustav Holst: In the Bleak Midwinter…. 2. Charles Dickens: Bleak House (from Chapter 57) 3. William Blake: London 4. Alfred Lord Tennyson: Mariana 5. Leos Janacek: In the Mist –...
06.05.2024 - Playlist: texts read & music played 1. Verdi: Preludio 2. Librettist F.M. Piave on Shakespeare’s play ‘Macbeth’ 3. From letter by Verdi to Piave 4. Shakespeare’s Macbeth: Act I, Scene 5 5. Verdi’s opera for this scene 6. Macbeth...
