Nine Lives
Texts and music on the theme of cats, with readings by Juliet Stevenson and Kenneth Cranham. Including Kipling, Eliot, Carroll, and Ruth Padel, plus Saint-Saens, Rossini, Telemann.
From the mew of the pussycat to the roar of the lion, Nine Lives pays homage to the musicality and poetry of the feline form. Juliet Stevenson and Kenneth Cranham read poetry and prose from Rudyard Kipling, T.S. Eliot, Lewis Carroll, Ruth Padel and Grace Nichols accompanied by music from Saint-Saens, Rossini, Telemann, John Tavener, Ravel and Tchaikovsky.
Producer: Baya Cat
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Timings (where shown) are from the start of the programme in hours and minutes
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00:00Camille SaintβSaΓ«ns
Le Carnaval des animaux: Introduction et Marche royale du Lion
Performer: Martha Argerich, Nelson Freire, Gidon Kremer, Isabelle van Keulen, Tabea Zimmermann, Mischa Maisky, Georg Hortnagel
- Philips.
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Thea Obreht
The Tigerβs Wife, read by Juliet Stevenson
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00:03George Bruns
Jungle Book Overture
- Pickwick.
Rudyard Kipling
The Jungle Book, read by Kenneth Cranham
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00:06Aaron Copland
Scherzo Humoristique: The Cat and the Mouse
Performer: Mark Anderson
- Nimbus.
Alan Brownjohn
Mad Animals, read by Kenneth Cranham
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00:11Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Sleeping Beauty: Le Chat botte et la chatte blanche
Performer: Boston Symphony Orchestra
- Deutsche Grammophon.
Katherine Pierpoint
Cats Are Otherwise, read by Juliet Stevenson
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00:15Georg Philipp Telemann
Canary Cantata
Performer: Dorothee Mields, Ewald Demeyere
- Accent.
Yann Martel
Life of Pi, read by Kenneth Cranham
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00:21anne lebaron
Dog-Gone Cat
Performer: Anne LeBaron
- Mode.
Yann Martel
Life of Pi, read by Kenneth Cranham
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00:27John Tavener
The Tyger
Performer: Westminster Abbey Choir, Martin Neary
- Sony Classical.
Peter Porter
Mort aux Chats, read by Kenneth Cranham
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00:35Maurice Ravel
L'enfant et les Sortileges: "Oh ma tete! Oh ma tete!"
Performer: Armin Jordan & Orchestre de la Suisse Romande, Colette Alliot-Lugaz, Isabel Garcisanz, Philippe Huttenlocher
- Erato.
T.S. Elliot
Macavity read by Juliet Stevenson
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00:39Charlie Singleton
Cat's Paw
Performer: Lou Donaldson, Charlie Singleton, Morris Lane, Kelly Owens, Teddy Cromwell, Lester Jenkins
- Classics.
Jennifer Rahim
The Wild Cat, read by Juliet Stevenson
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00:43Gioachino Rossini
Dueto di due Gatti
Performer: Lux Musica, Linda Burman-Hall, Patrice Maginnis, Brian Staufenbiel, Boyd Jarrell
- Kleos Classics.
Ruth Padel
Jaguar Quartet: I Saviour, read by Kenneth Cranham
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00:48CΓ©sar Franck
Le Lion et le Coq
Performer: RTBF Symphony Orchestra, Andre Vandernoort
- Autographe.
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00:53Percy Grainger
Night-Song in the Jungle
Performer: The Polyphony Orchestra, Libby Crabtree, John Mark Ainsley, David Wilson-Johnson
- Hyperion.
Grace Nichols
Tabby, read by Juliet Stevenson
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00:54Erno Dohnanyi
Nocturne - Cats on the Roof
Performer: Lawrence Schubert
- Naxos.
Lewis Carroll
Alice in Wonderland, read by Juliet Stevenson
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01:03Robert Smith
The Lovecats
Performer: The Cure
- Fiction.
Alistair Reid
Curiosity, read by Kenneth Cranham
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01:10Benjamin Britten
For I Will Consider My Cat Jeoffrey, Rejoice in the Lamb
Performer: Sir David Willcocks, Philip Ledger, Choir of King's College, Cambridge
- EMI.
Broadcast
- Sun 18 Sep 2011 18:30ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ Radio 3
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