15.02.2022 - Speziell zur Sendung am Donnerstag, den 28. Oktober 2021:John Keats (2) Texts read and Music played Keats: ‘To Autumn’ Henry Moses: from ‘A Collection of Antique Vases’ (1814) Haydon: from his Journal, January 1813 Keats: ‘On Seeing the...
15.02.2022 - Speziell zur Sendung am Donnerstag, den 14. Oktober 2021:John Keats (1) Texts read and Music played Opening line, ‘To Autumn’ Respighi: Pines near a Catacomb (from Pines of Rome) Keats: ‘On First Looking into Chapman’s Homer’ Keats:...
15.02.2022 - Poems by Robert Louis Stevenson, set to music by Ralph Vaughan Williams
15.02.2022 - Speziell zur Sendung am Donnerstag, den 22. Juli 2021: Playlist: texts read & music played Extract from the ‘Madeleine’ episode (from A la Recherche du Temps Perdu) Jean Giraudoux on Proust (1921) Claude Debussy: En Bateau (from Petite...
15.02.2022 - Speziell zur Sendung am Donnerstag, den 08. Juli 2021:Shakespeare Sonnets No 18 ‘Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day?’ No 130 ‘My mistress’ eyes are nothing like the sun…’ No. 29 ‘When, in...
15.02.2022 - Speziell zur Sendung am Donnerstag, den 24. Juni 2021:Benjamin Britten’s opera ‘The Rape of Lucretia’ Playlist: texts read & music played 1. ‘How is it possible…?’ (last lines of the Libretto) 2. Opening...
15.02.2022 - Speziell zur Sendung am Donnerstag, den 10. Juni 2021:From Spring to Summer Playlist (Texts read and Music played) Beethoven: Spring Sonata (F-major): Rondo Benjamin Britten: Spring Symphony Sine out! (16thc., anonymous) The Merry Cuckoo (Edmund...
06.12.2021 - Dylan at 80 Playlist (texts read and music heard) 1. Knockin' on Heaven's Door 2. Comments by Dylan (1965) 3. The Times they are a-changin' 4. Talkin' New York 5. Blowin' in the Wind 6. Desolation Row (live, 1966) 7. Like a Rolling Stone 8....
06.12.2021 - Birds of Spring (Cuckoo, Blackbird, Skylark, Nightingale) Playlist: texts read & music played:- 1. Song of Blackbird 2. Heine/ Schumann: ‘Im wunderschönen Monat Mai…’ (from Buch der Lieder, 1827/ Dichterliebe, 1840) 3. ‚Sumer is...
06.12.2021 - ‘The Hill We Climb’, Amanda Gorman Playlist: texts read & Music played 1. Interviews with Amanda Gorman 2. Miles Davis: A Kind of Blue 3. ‘The Hill We Climb’, Amanda Gorman (at Inauguration, Jan 20, 2021) 4....
06.12.2021 - Katherine Mansfield (2) Playlist: texts read & music played 1. Poem to Stanislaw Wyspianki 2. Alpine Folk Music 3. Letter February 4, 1920 4. ‘The Sister of the Baroness’ (from ‘In a German pension’): an extract 5....
06.12.2021 - Katherine Mansfield (1) 1888-1923 Playlist: texts read & music played 1. ‘To the Edge of the Earth’ (from ‘The Piano’) 2. from Mansfield: Prelude, 1917 3. from Mansfield: The Voyage (1921) 4. ‘Big my Secret’...
05.03.2021 - French Chanson singer ‘Barbara’ (1930 — 1997) Playlist: texts read & music played 1. Charles Trenet: Que reste-t-il de nos amours? 2. Barbara: Mon Enfance 3. Barbara: Au Coeur de la Nuit 4. Barbara: Nantes 5. Barbara:...
12.01.2021 - Playlist: texts read and music played 1. Wordsworth on Chatterton 2. Keats on Chatterton 3. Dr Johnson on Chatterton 4. Chatterton: ‘Song from Aella’ 5. George Butterworth: ‘The Banks of Green Willow’ 6. Peter Ackroyd:...
