Words and Music: Transformations
Jonathan Keeble and Kim Gerard read literature inspired by change, with music performed by soprano Stephanie Corley and Northern Sinfonia. Recorded at the Free Thinking festival.
Jonathan Keeble and Kim Gerard join soprano Stephanie Corley, pianist Kate Thompson and members of Northern Sinfonia to perform a special edition of Words & Music exploring themes of change. Recorded live at the Free Thinking festival at The Sage Gateshead, the programme's transformations include those caused by ageing, cosmetic surgery, medical experiment, divine intervention and technology. With poetry and prose by Mary Shelley, Franz Kafka, Ted Hughes, Roald Dahl and Alan Bennett, and music by Saint-Saens, Strauss, Shostakovich and Schoenberg. Presented by Ian McMillan.
David Papp & Clara Nissen (producers).
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Ted Hughes
Tales from Ovid (excerpt), reader Jonathan Keeble
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Arnold Schoenberg
Verkl盲rte nacht (beginning)
Performer: Northern Sinfonia
Mary Shelley
Frankenstein (excerpt), reader Jonathan Keeble
Carl Hiaasen
Skin Tight (excerpt), reader Kim Gerard
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Bernard Herrmann
The Murder (from Psycho)
Performer: Northern Sinfonia
Ted Hughes
Pygmalion (from Tales from Ovid), reader Jonathan Keeble
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Richard Strauss
Morgen (Op. 27, No.4)
Performer: Stephanie Corley (soprano), Kate Thompson (piano), Kyra Humphreys (violin)
Franz Kafka
Metamorphosis, reader Kim Gerard
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Igor Stravinsky
The Devil's Dance (from The Soldier's Tale)
Performer: Northern Sinfonia
Charles Baudelaire, trans. David Papp
La chambre double, reader Jonathan Keeble
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Dmitry Shostakovich
Recitative (from String Quartet No. 11 in F minor)
Performer: Northern Sinfonia
Oliver Sacks
Awakenings, reader Kim Gerard
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Jack Yellen & Milton Ager
Big Boy!
Performer: Stephanie Corley (soprano), Kate Thompson (piano)
Roald Dahl
George鈥檚 Marvellous Medicine, readers Jonathan Keeble & Kim Gerard
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Gy枚rgy Ligeti
Molto vivace. Capriccioso
Performer: Northern Sinfonia
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Gy枚rgy Ligeti
Allegro grazioso (from 6 Bagatelles for Wind Quintet)
Performer: Northern Sinfonia
Sylvia Plath
Mushrooms, reader Jonathan Keeble
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Johannes Brahms
Adagio mesto (from Horn Trio, Op. 40)
Performer: Tim Thorpe (horn), Kyra Humphreys (violin), Kate Thompson (piano)
Gerard Manley Hopkins
Binsey Poplars (Felled 1879), reader Kim Gerard
Alan Bennett
Untold Stories (excerpt), reader Jonathan Keeble
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Traditional English Folk-Song
General Ludd's Triumph
Performer: Stephanie Corley (soprano), Kate Thompson (piano)
Don Paterson
The Machine, reader Kim Gerard
Andrew Crumey
Mr Mee, reader Jonathan Keeble
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Francis Poulenc
Finale (Prestissimo - subito tres lent) (from Sextet for Piano & Wind)
Performer: Northern Sinfonia, Kate Thompson (piano)
Simon Gray
The Smoking Diaries, reader Jonathan Keeble
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Camille Saint鈥怱a毛ns
Tortoises (from Carnival of the Animals)
Performer: Northern Sinfonia, Kate Thompson (piano)
Dorothy Nimmo
Ill-Wishing Him, reader Kim Gerard
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Claude Debussy
Syrinx
Performer: Juliette Bausor (flute)
John Donne
The Good-Morrow, reader Jonathan Keeble
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Arnold Schoenberg
Verkl盲rte nacht (conclusion)
Performer: Northern Sinfonia
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