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...
15.07.2019 - Greece: 5. The Island of Corfu Texts read & music played: Lorentzos Mavilis: Aphrodite of the Islands Kostis Palamas: Corfu Shakespeare: The Tempest (Caliban: ‚This island’s mine…‘) Thomas Ades: The Tempest, Scene 4...
11.06.2019 - reece: 4. Ithaca Texts read & music played: Homer: The Odyssey (Book 13, extract) Carl Nielsen: Helios Overture, op.17 George Seferis: It’s an old Harbour… Lawrence Durrell: The Greek Islands (Ithaca) Lord Byron: Childe Harold’s...
11.06.2019 - Greece: 3. Kefallonia Playlist: texts read and music played Song: Mia Morfi Nisiotissa, sung by Irini Konitopoulou Lord Byron at Metaxata, summer 1823 Byron’s confession to his friend Kennedy Traditional instrumental piece: Ximeroni (The Day...
11.06.2019 - Athens Texts read & music played: Nana Mouscouri: The White Rose of Athens Shakespeare: A Midsummer Night’s Dream (extract) P.B. Shelley: Ode to Liberty (extract) John Milton: Paradise Regain’d (extract) Nana Mouscouri: Ta Pedia Tou Pirea...
18.04.2019 - Athens Texts read & music played: Nana Mouscouri: The White Rose of Athens Shakespeare: A Midsummer Night’s Dream (extract) P.B. Shelley: Ode to Liberty (extract) John Milton: Paradise Regain’d (extract) Nana Mouscouri: Ta Pedia Tou Pirea...
01.04.2019 - Texts read and music played: R.D. Leitch: The Loss of HMS Punjab Henry Wood: Fantasia on British Sea Songs – Jack’s the Lad (Sailor’s Hornpipe) R.D. Leitch: The End of the Bismarck ‚Rule Britannia‘ R.D. Leitch:...
01.04.2019 - Texts read and Music played: ‚On Hearing the First Cuckoo in Spring‘, Frederick Delius ‚Spring: the Cuckoo‘, William Shakespeare ‚Home Thoughts from Abroad‘, Robert Browning Symphony no. 6...
