Reconciliation
Poetry and music relating to reconciliation, with readings by Harriet Walter and Oliver Dimsdale. With Donne, Peter Porter, Christina Rossetti, plus Tchaikovsky, Adams, Nick Cave.
In our personal lives or on the world stage, reconciliation is an essential part of humankind's co-existence and civility. It can sometimes be a painful process, admitting our mistakes or failings, but it can also be a moment of celebration where we achieve redemption and forgiveness; where we can put the past behind us and move forward with great hope and optimism. Actors Harriet Walter and Oliver Dimsdale read poetry by John Donne, Peter Porter and Christina Rossetti, with music by Tchaikovsky, John Adams and Nick Cave.
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Timings (where shown) are from the start of the programme in hours and minutes
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00:00John Adams
Nixon in China
Performer: Orchestra of St Lukeβs; Edo de Waart
- Elektra/Nonesuch 979 177-2.
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Shenagh Pugh
Sometimes
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00:02Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Le Nozze di Figaro
Performer: Thomas Allen; Kiri te Kanawa; Lucia Popp; Samuel Ramey; Robert Tear; Philip Langridge; Giorgio Tadeo
- DECCA 410 150-2.
Derek Mahon
Everything is going to be alright
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00:08Leos JanΓ‘Δek
String Quartet No.2 "Intimate Letters"
Performer: Pavel Haas Quartet
- Supraphon SU 3877-2.
Christina Rossetti
I loved you first: but afterwards your love
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00:16Nick Cave
Love Letter
Performer: Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds
- MUTE CDSTUMM 164.
James Fenton
The Mistake
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00:22Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Acquiescence
Performer: Olga Borodina; Larissa Gergieva;
- PHILIPS 4420132.
Naomi Shihab Nye
Kindness
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00:29Johann Sebastian Bach
Invention No.15 in B Minor, BWV 786
Performer: Glenn Gould
- SONY CLASICAL 82876787662.
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00:30Johann Sebastian Bach
Sinfonia No.15 in B Minor, BWV 801
Performer: Glenn Gould
- SONY CLASICAL 82876787662.
J. Wolfgang von Goethe
Reconciliation
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00:32Stephin Merritt
All My Little Words
Performer: Magentic Fields
- Merge Records B00000JY1X.
Wendell Berry
The Peace of Wild Things
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00:35Michael Nyman
Reconciliation
Performer: Michael Nyman Band; Michael Nyman
- DECCA 425 224-2.
Laurie Lee
The Long War
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00:38Franz Schubert
Piano Sonata in A, D.959
Performer: Alfred Brendel
- PHILIPS 422 229-2.
Anna Swir
Tomorrow They Will Carve Me
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00:47Antonio Lotti
Motet Γ 6, Crucifixus
Performer: Westminster Abbey Choir; Abbey Consort; Martin Neary
- Sony Classical SK 66615.
Siegfried Sassoon
Reconciliation
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00:52Enoch Mankayi Sontonga
Nkosi Sikelel 'lAfrica
Performer: Ladysmith Black Mambazo
- Heads Up HUCD 3109.
Phillis Wheatley
On being bought from Africa to America
Desmond Tutu
Forgiving and being reconciled
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00:55John Adams
News has a kind of mystery
Performer: Sanford Sylvan; James Maddalena; Thomas Hammons; Orchestra of St. Lukeβs; Edo de Waart
- Elektra/Nonesuch 979 177-2.
Peter Porter
The Imperfection of the World
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01:04Ludwig van Beethoven
Symphony no.9 Op. 125
Performer: Wiener Philharkmoniker; Sir Simon Rattle
- EMI 7243 5 57572 2 7.
John Donne
Death Be Not Proud
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01:11Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Requiem K 626
Performer: Helen Donath; Yvonne Minton; Ryland Davies; Gerd Nienstedt; John Alldis Choir; ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ Symphony Orchestra; Sir Colin Davis
- PHILIPS 438 800-2.
Broadcasts
- Sun 31 Jul 2011 22:15ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ Radio 3
- Sun 29 Apr 2018 17:30ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ Radio 3
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