11.03.2020 - Rhymes, Chants, Poems and Songs No. 2 Tongue Twisters A Verb Rap: Wake up and Sing Sarah Lattimore: The Writer of this Poem A wise old owl … A Puzzle Poem A Song for Winter Snow, Feathery soft and … Debussy: Children’s Corner/ The Snow is...
11.03.2020 - Rhymes, Chants, Poems and Songs No. 1 The Wheels on the Bus … Elgar: Nursery Suite / The Wagon Passes Old MacDonald had a Farm Elgar: The Wand of Youth Suite no. 2/ The Wild Bears Edwin Morgan: The Loch Ness Monster’s Song If I had a donkey…...
11.03.2020 - T.S. Eliot’s ‚Old Possum’s Book of Practical Cats‘ AND Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Musical ‚Cats‘ Texts read (by T.S. Eliot himself) and Music played: Rossini: Duetto buffo di due Gatti (1825)...
11.03.2020 - Christmas Texts read and music played: O Come, O Come, Emmanuel Henry Livingston Jr.: Account of a Visit from St.Nicholas Corelli: Concerto no.8, Fatto per la Notte di Natale (Allegro) Robert Frost: Christmas Trees Catalan Christmas Carol: Song of...
11.03.2020 - Clive James, 1939 -2019: Journalist, broadcaster, author … and POET! (A Tribute to … ) Texts read and music played: Clive James: My Father before Me Edith Piaf: La Vie en Rose Clive James: Edith Piaf Edith Piaf: L’Hymne a...
11.03.2020 - Schubert’s ‚Die Winterreise‘ Texts read and music played: Ian Bostridge: Schubert’s Winter Journey: Anatomy of an Obsession (2015) Benjamin Britten: Schubert’s Winterreise Schubert: Gute Nacht Dieter Fischer-Dieskau:...
11.03.2020 - The Island of IONA Playlist: texts read and music played 1. Dugald MacPhaill: The Isle of Mull 2. John Campbell: Iona of the Green Hills 3. Mendelssohn: Hebrides Overture (Fingal’s Cave) 4. William Wordsworth: Iona, Glory of the West 5....
12.11.2019 - Staffa: Inner Hebrides, Scotland Texts read and music played: Mendelssohn: Hebrides Overture (Fingal’s Cave) -start Donald B. MacCulloch: Staffa (1927) The Scots Magazine, Nov 1772 Dr Johnson: A Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland...
12.11.2019 - The Fair Maid of the Mill (Schubert) (anticipating A Performance of Die Schoene Muellerin, by Daniel Johannsen and Annette Seiler, Wed Oct 16 2019, at 19.00, in the Haus der Musik, Innsbruck) Texts read & music played: Schubert: Das Wandern...
12.11.2019 - Mountains of Scotland Texts read and music played: Hamish MacCunn: Land of the Mountain and the Flood Walter Scott: O Caledonia! (from Lay of the Last Minstrel) Thomas Campbell: Ben Lomond Frederick Delius: Song of the High Hills Ben Nevis...
12.11.2019 - Bavarian Lakes Tour (2): from Benediktbeuren to the Starnbergersee Playlist: texts read & music played 1. Yves Montand: A Bicyclette 2. Meditation Garden, Benediktbeuren 3. Goethe: Italian Journey (1786) – Benediktbeuren 4. Peter...
16.09.2019 - Bavarian Lakes Tour (3): from the Stanbergersee to the Achensee Texts and music played: Thomas Mann: diary entry May 1919 Thomas Mann: Der Zauberberg – Die Fuelle des Wohllauts Schubert: Der Lindenbaum (from Die Winterreise) Saint-Saens: The...
16.09.2019 - Bavarian Lakes CycleTour 1 From Scharnitz to Benediktbeuren… Texts read & music played: D.H. Lawrence: Bavarian Gentians (1927) Jerome K. Jerome: Three Men on the Bummel (1900) Instructions for British Servicemen in Germany (1944) Weber:...
16.09.2019 - Greek 6: Farewell to the Greek Islands Texts read & music played: Jannis Ritsos: Of the Sea ‚ (1967) Tony Robinson: Odysseus – The Greatest Hero of Them All Homer: the Odyssey, Book 5 (tr. Alexander Pope) Nikos Kazantzakis: Zorba...
