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)...
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 –...
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...
The Lark and the Nightingale Playlist (texts read & music played) Ralph Vaughan Williams: The Lark Ascending (in 4 parts), with faded overlaps (Pinchas Zukerman, English Chamber Orchestra under Daniel Barenboim) George Meredith: The Lark...
The Fairy Queen Playlist (texts read & music played) 1. Henry Purcell: The Fairy Queen – Overture 2. Duet: Come, let us leave the Town…. 3. Promotional text for the production by the Tiroler Landestheater 4. First Act Tune – Jig 5....
Pygmalion and My Fair Lady Playlist (texts read/ heard & music played) 1. Why can’t the English teach their children how to speak? 2. The rain in Spain stays mainly in the plain 3. Get me to the Church on time 4. Act II (Longman ed. pp. 21...
With: Andrew, Bernadette, Sandra Playlist: Joan Baez Music played: 1. ‘Once I had a Sweetheart’ 2. ‘Banks of the Ohio’ 3. ‘Help Me Make it through the Night’ 4. ‘House of the Rising Sun’ 5. ‘With God on our Side’ 6....
Texts read and music played 1. Edith Nesbit: New Year Snow 2. Christina Rossetti: In the bleak mid-winter (& music by Gustav Holst) 3. Peter Härtling: Schnee für später/ Snow for later (from An den Ufern meiner Stadt, Späte Gedichte,...
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...
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...
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...
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...
