The Rose
Texts and music on the theme of roses with readings by Lindsay Duncan and Iwan Rheon. Including Charles Tomlinson, Dorothy Parker and HD, as well as Britten, Delius and Wagner.
Poems, prose and music on the theme of the Rose. Ruby petals, emerald stems: the rose speaks love. Its language is beauty, tenderness and eternity; its colour is passion. But the rose also speaks a less familiar language, that of peace, nationalism and revolution, the strangeness of mysticism and the finality of death. This hymn plucks rare and wild roses for its verses with music by Britten, Delius and Wagner and words by Charles Tomlinson, Dorothy Parker and HD, read by Lindsay Duncan and Iwan Rheon.
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Timings (where shown) are from the start of the programme in hours and minutes
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Eric Whitacre
Go, Lovely Rose
Performer: Stephen Layton, Polyphony
- Hyperion CDA67543.
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George Eliot
Roses, read by Lindsay Duncan
Charles Tomlinson
A Rose for Janet, read by Iwan Rheon
00:04Gabriel FaurΓ©
Les Roses d'Ispahan
Performer: Kathleen Battle, James Levine
- DG 4455242.
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
A Dead Rose, read by Lindsay Duncan
00:10Frank Bridge
Music, when soft voices die (Shelley)
Performer: Louise Winter, Roger Vignoles, Roger Chase
- Hyperion CDA 67181/2.
Christopher Reid
The Ghost of a Rose, read by Iwan Rheon
00:14Ralph Vaughan Williams
Fantasia on 'Greensleeves'
Performer: Jonathan Snowden, Skaila Kanga, The London Chamber Orchestra, Christopher Warren-Green
- Virgin Classics VCY7908192.
WB Yeats
The Rose of Peace, read by Iwan Rheon
00:18Arthur Sullivan
Incidental Music to Shakespeare's Heanry VIII
Performer: Emmanuel Lawler, RTE Concert Orchestra, Andre Penny
- MARCO POLO 8223461.
Hugh MacDiarmid
The Little White Rose, read by Lindsay Duncan
Pablo Neruda
Sonnet XVII, read by Lindsay Duncan
00:29Benjamin Britten
Serenade for tenor, horn & strings, Op.31 - Elegy - O Rose, Thou Art Sick
Performer: Peter Pears, Barry Tuckwell, The London Symphony Orchestra, The English Chamber Orchestra
- DECCA 4171532.
Aleister Crowley
The Rose and the Cross, read by Lindsay Duncan
00:33Benjamin Britten
Rosa Mystica
Performer: Andrew Lumsden, The Finzi Singers, Paul Spicer
- Chandos CHAN9511.
WB Yeats
To the Rose upon the Rood of Time, read by Iwan Rheon
00:36Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds
Where the Wild Roses Grow (feat. Kylie Minogue)
Performer: Nick Cave, Kylie Minogue
- MUTE CDSTUMM138.
00:40Charles Koechlin
Roses au soleil de midi
Performer: Rheinland-Pfalz Philharmonic, Leif Segerstam
- MARCO POLO 8223504.
Emily Dickinson
Nobody Knows this Little Rose, read by Lindsay Duncan
00:43Frederick Delius
The Walk to the Paradise Garden
Performer: Richard Hickox, Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra
- Chandos CHAN9355.
Emily Bronte
Love and Friendship, read by Lindsay Duncan
00:48Johann Strauss II - Rosen aus dem SΓΌden
Performer: The Johann Strauss Orchestra, Jack Rothstein
George Szirtes
Comical Roses in a Cubic Vase
00:58Traditional arr Stevens
There is no rose
Performer: The Choir of Trinity College, Cambridge, Richard Marlow
- CONFIER 75605517542.
01:00Jean Sibelius
Svarta rosor
Performer: HΓ¥kan HagegΓ¥rd, Warren Jones
- RCA 09026680972.
Dorothy Parker
One Perfect Rose, read by Lindsay Duncan
01:03Razaf/Waller
Honeysuckle Rose
Performer: Fats Waller, Bill Coleman, Gene Sedric, Albert Casey, Billy Taylor, Harry Dial
- ASV CDAJA5174.
Dylan Thomas
Blue Roses, read by Iwan Rheon
01:06Piaf/Louguy
La Vie en Rose
Performer: Edith Piaf, Guy Luypaerts, Robert Chauvigny, Marc Bonel
- EMI 5201422.
Sujata Bhatt
The Stinking Rose, read by Lindsay Duncan
01:11Henry Purcell
Sweeter than Roses
Performer: Kathleen Battle, James Levine
- Deutsche Grammophon 4455242.
Broadcasts
- Sun 15 Jan 2012 18:30Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Radio 3
- Sun 17 Jun 2012 18:30Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Radio 3