Main content
Sorry, this episode is not currently available

In Search of the Sublime

The inexorable yearning for transcendence: Stephen Mangan and Adjoa Andoh read prose and poems by Keats, Mary Wollstonecraft and Robert Scott with music by Janacek and Prokofiev.

1 hour, 15 minutes

Last on

Wed 29 Dec 2010 17:00

Music Played

Timings (where shown) are from the start of the programme in hours and minutes

  • 00:00

    Leos JanáÄek

    Quatour no. 1 "Sonate à Kreutzer", Adagio

    Performer: Quatuor Talich

    • CALLIOPE CAL9699.
  • Sappho (trans. Anne Carson)

    Fragment 31 read by Adjoa Andoh

  • 00:04

    James Brown, Johnny

    Please, Please, Please

    Performer: James Brown and his Famous Flames

    • POLYDOR.
  • Frank O’Hara

    Radio read by Stephen Mangan

  • 00:07

    Sergey Prokofiev

    Sonata pour deux violins op. 65, Andante cantabile

    Performer: David Oistrakh, Igor Oistrakh

    • PRAGA PR250041.
  • 00:11

    Joseph Haydn

    Die Schöpfung, Die Himmel erzählen die Ehre Gottes

    Performer: The Monteverdi Choir, The English Baroque Soloists, cond. John Eliot Gardiner

    • ARCHIV 4492172.
  • Mary Wollstonecraft

    Extract from Short Residence in Sweden, Norway and Denmark read by Adjoa Andoh

  • 00:16

    Thomas Adès

    The Tempest, Act One, Scene One "Hell is Empty"

    Performer: Royal Opera Chorus, The Orchestra of the Royal Opera house, Thomas Thomas Adès

    • EMI 6952342.
  • William Beebe

    Extract from A Round Trip to Davy Jones’ Locker read by Stephen Mangan

  • 00:20

    Gustav Holst

    The Planets Suite, Neptune, the Mystic

    Performer: Orchestre symphonique de Montréal, cond Charles Dutoit

    • DECCA 4175532.
  • John Keats

    On First Looking Into Chapman’s Â鶹ԼÅÄr, read by Stephen Mangan

  • Elizabeth Jennings

    Stargazers and Others, read by Adjoa Andoh

  • 00:29

    Johann Sebastian Bach

    Cello Suite, No 2 (BWV 1008) Menuet I

    Performer: Mstislav Rostropovich

    • EMI CDS5553632.
  • 00:31

    Richard Hawley

    Late Night Final, Cry a Tear for a Man on the Moon

    Performer: Richard Hawley

    • SETANTA B00005Q3ZG.
  • Lavinia Greenlaw

    For the First Dog in Space, read by Adjoa Andoh

  • 00:31

    Pascal Content and Wu Wei

    Iceberg, Amery Ice Shelf

    Performer: Pascal Content, Wu Wei

    • SIGNATURE SIG11056.
  • Robert Falcon Scott

    Diary extract, read by Stephen Mangan

  • 00:41

    Lili Boulanger

    Pie Jesu

    Performer: Alain Fauqueur (boy soprano of the Petits Chantueurs de Vincennes), JJ Grunenwald ( organ), Igor Markevitch (conductor)

    • EVEREST EVC9034.
  • Percy Bysshe Shelley

    Ozymadias, read by Adjoa Andoh

  • 00:47

    Ludwig van Beethoven

    Symphony No. 5 in C minor, op 67, Allegro (extract)

    Performer: Berliner Philharmoniker, Herbert Von Karajan (conductor)

    • DEUTSCHE GRAMMOPHON 4139322.
  • Hart Crane

    Proem to Brooklyn Bridge, read by Adjoa Andoh

  • 00:53

    C J Parker

    Charlie Parker: Bird / The Savoy Recordings, Parker's Mood

    Performer: Charlie Parker

    • SAVOY ZD70737.
  • Gerard Manley Hopkins

    God’s Grandeur, read by Stephen Mangan

  • 00:57

    Richard Strauss

    Vier Letzte Lieder, Beim Schlafengehen

    Performer: Jessye Norman, Gewandhaus Orchester Leipzig, Kurt Masur conductor

    • PHILIPS 4110522.
  • TS Eliot

    Extract from part V, Dry Salvages, The Four Quartets, read by Paul Scofield

  • 01:05

    Olivier Messiaen

    Quatuor pour la fin du temps, viii Louange a l'immortalite de Jesus

    Performer: Gil Shaham (violin), Paul Meyer (clarinet), Jian Wang (violoncello), Myung-Whun Chung (piano)

    • DEUTSCHE GRAMMOPHON 4690522.

Broadcasts

  • Sun 26 Sep 2010 22:15
  • Wed 29 Dec 2010 17:00

The hidden history of plant-based diets

The hidden history of plant-based diets

Forget social media influencers - the meat-free movement started with the Victorians.

Books website

Get closer to books with in-depth articles, quizzes and our picks from radio & TV.