SCHUBERTIADE 2 Playlist (texts read and music played) Statements by Richard Baker, W.H. Auden, T.S. Eliot, & S.T. Coleridge. Wilhelm Müller/ Schubert: Der Lindenbaum Plaque on lime-tree in Toblaten Thomas Mann: extract from The Magic Mountain...
At the Schubertiade (1) Playlist (Texts by Goethe read & music by Schubert played) Gretchen am Spinnrade Heidenrōslein Das Veilchen (Mozart) Erlkōnig Rastlose Liebe Am Flusse Erster Verlust Schäfers Klagelied Willkommen und Abschied
Erik Satie: Poetry through Music Playlist (texts by and about Satie read & music by Satie played) 1. Gymnopédie no. 1 (original piano, Jacques Loussier Trio & Debussy orchestration)) 2. Contamine de Latour: Les Antiques 3. Debussy on...
Maurice Ravel (3) Playlist: texts read & music played 1. Ravel: Valses nobles et sentimentales 2. Aloysius Bertrand: Gaspard de la Nuit 3. Ravel: Gaspard de la Nuit – Ondine 4. Debussy: Préludes II – Ondine 5. Baudelaire: Un...
Maurice Ravel (2) Playlist: texts read & music played 1. Ravel: Introduction and Allegro 2. Ravel: Le Cygne, from Histoires Naturelles 3. Ravel: Cinq Mélodies populaires grecques – Le Réveil 4. Ravel: Rapsodie Espagnole – Prélude...
Maurice Ravel: 150 Years on…. Playlist: texts read & music played 1. Ravel: Boléro 2. Ravel on Boléro 3. Ravel: Menuet Antique 4. Ravel: Ouverture de Féérie 5. Ravel: Deux Epigrammes de Clément Marot 6. Ravel: Pavane pour une Infante...
Texts read & music played Rudyard Kipling: ‘On the Road to Mandalay’ Leonard Woolf: ‘Growing’ Bizet: Au Fond du Temple Saint (from Les Pêcheurs de Perles) George Bernard Shaw on Ceylon in the 1930s Mathew Arnold: film...
Texts read & music played 1. Bizet: Les Pêcheurs de Perles – Prélude 2. V. Ganeshananthan: Hole-in-the-Heart 3. Advert for Brides, Sunday Observer, March 2 2025 4. ‘Colonel Bogey’ whistled (from The Bridge on the River Kwai) 5. Dire...
King Arthur (Purcell/ Dryden) Playlist (texts read & music played) 1. Leslie Alcock: ‘Arthur’s Britain’ (1971 & 1989) 2. John Dryden/ Henry Purcell: ‘King Arthur’ – ‘Fairest Isle’ 3. Act 1: Overture, Air, Overture 4. Act...
