15.12.2022 - St. Andrews (2): Castle, the Reformation and University Playlist: texts read and music played Pavane et Galliarde (mid-16thc.) Words attibuted to George Wishart Ian Rankin on his childhood holidays in St Andrews Thomas Morley: ‘Now is the month...
22.11.2022 - St Andrews (1): History, Ghosts and Witches Playlist: texts read & music played 1. Andrew Lang: St Andrews by the Northern Sea 2. Robert Crawford: I love how…. 3. John Johnstoun: from ‚Poemata‘ 4. Tacitus, from...
31.10.2022 - Eva’s French PoemsTexts read & music played, celebrating Dr Eva Lavric’s retirement as Professor from the Institute for Romance Languages at the University of Innsbruck. At her retirement celebration in the Claudiana of the University of...
31.10.2022 - Hungarian Special Jozef Attila: By the Danube, O Europe, Mother/ Ady Endre: Leaving the Village/ András Imreh: The Bright Boys/ Monika Mesterházi: Wind Bela Bartok: Dance Suite / Zoltan Kodály: ‘Háry János’ Suite/ Zoltán Kodály:...
31.10.2022 - Ukraine (4): War vs. Peace 1. Carl Nielsen, in a letter to his wife (1914) 2. Carl Nielsen, writing to his friend Julius Röntgen (1920) 3. Carl Nielsen: Symphony no. 4 (‘The Inextinguishable’) – Allegro (finale) 4. ‘That which does not...
13.06.2022 - A South Shropshire Spring A.E. Housman: ‘Into my heart…’ Mary Webb: ‘Very Early’ Song of a blackbird ‘The Living Edge: a Wanderer’s Guide to Wenlock Edge’ (National Trust, 2011) John Ireland: ‘Spring will not wait’ (piano solo)...
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13.06.2022 - Ukraine (3): Poems about the war in Ukraine Georg Trakl: Grodek Shakespeare: Hamlet, from Act III, Sc. 1 Alan Maley on IATEFL’s collection of poems on the war in Ukraine John Donne: No man is an island…. Schubert: D960 (Andante sostenuto) Rod...
13.06.2022 - Ukraine (2): 19th & 20th centuries From Tolstoy: ‘War and Peace’ (1869) Taras Shevchenko: from ‘Testament’ (1845) Taras Shevchenko: from ‘Calamity Again’ (1859) Anne Applebaum: ‘Red Famine: Stalin’s War on Ukraine’ (2017)...
13.06.2022 - Ukraine (1): Cossacks through Byron, Liszt, and Janacek ‘War Criminal/ Vlad-the-Invader/ Put in Prison’ Ovid: from ‘Epistulae ex Ponto’ Serhii Plokhy: ‘The Gates of Europe: A History of Ukraine’ (2016) Mussorgsky/ Ravel: ‘The Great...
28.03.2022 - Speziell zur Sendung am Donnerstag, den 24. März 2022: Salome (Richard Strauss) R. Strauss: Salome – Dance of the Seven Veils (start) R. Strauss on an early Innsbruck production of Salome Gospel of St. Matthew, Chapter 14 Marie Wittich on the...
28.03.2022 - Speziell zur Sendung am Donnerstag, den 10. März 2022: Ulysses: Molly’s Soliloquy, James Joyce (1922) Tennyson, from the poem Ulysses T.S. Eliot on Joyce’s Ulysses Joyce: last 12 lines of Penelope (from Ulysses) Anthony Burgess, from Here...
15.02.2022 - Speziell zur Sendung am Donnerstag, den 10. Februar 2022:Façade Sir Osbert Sitwell on rehearsal of and background to Façade, Jan 1922 Edith Sitwell & William Walton: Façade – Fanfare Jack’s the Lad (a hornpipe) Façade – Hornpipe...
15.02.2022 - Speziell zur Sendung am Donnerstag, den 27. Jänner 2022: Nomads: Tinkers, the Jenisch, Pilgrims and other Itinerants Robert Louis Stevenson: ‘To travel hopefully…’ A Celtic Blessing: ’May the road rise to meet you…’ Robin Hall &...
