The Outsider
The Outsider: Sequence of poetry and prose interspersed with music.
Lesley Manville and Tom Goodman-Hill read poetry and prose on the theme of outsiders, from those who seek to escape society's constraints, to those who long to conform. With words by Jean-Jacques Rousseau, John Clare, Mary Shelley, Albert Camus, George Orwell, Maya Angelou and Jeanette Winterson, and music by Gesualdo, Strauss, Berg and Feldman.
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Timings (where shown) are from the start of the programme in hours and minutes
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Jean-Jacques Rousseau, trans. J. M. Cohen
The Confessions (excerpt), reader Tom Goodman-Hill
00:00Alexander Scriabin
The Poem of Ecstasy (opening)
Performer: Cleveland Orchestra Performer: Lorin Maazel
- Decca 417 252-2.
00:02Morton Feldman
String Quartet (II) (excerpt)
Performer: FLUX Quartet
- mode 112.
Edward Gibbon
The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire (excerpt), reader Lesley Manville
00:04Richard Strauss
Don Quixote (excerpts)
Performer: Steven Isserlis (cello) Performer: Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra Performer: Lorin Maazel (conductor)
- RCA 74321 75398 2.
Cervantes, trans. John Rutherford
Don Quixote (excerpt), reader Lesley Manville
Alan Bennett
Writing Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ (excerpt), reader Tom Goodman-Hill
00:08Olivier Messiaen
Visions de l'Amen (No. 4)
Performer: Steven Osborne (piano) Performer: Martin Roscoe (piano)
- Hyperion CDA 67366.
F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Great Gatsby (excerpt), reader Tom Goodman-Hill
00:11Original Dixieland Jazz Band & Joe Jordan
Dixie Jass Band One Step
Performer: Original Dixieland Jazz Band
- Trikont TRIKONT-0396.
00:12Gross/Lawrence
Tenderly
Performer: Ella Fitzgerald Performer: Louis Armstrong
- Prism PLATCD4908.
Robert Herrick
The Beggar to Mab, the Fairy Queen, reader Lesley Manville
00:17Felix Mendelssohn
Scherzo from A Midsummer Night's Dream
Performer: Ensemble Orchestral de Paris Performer: John Nelson (conductor)
- Virgin Classics 5455322.
Lewis Carroll
Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland (excerpt), reader Lesley Manville
00:24Prokofiev, arr. Pletnev
Spring from 'Cinderella'
Performer: Martha Argerich (piano) Performer: Mikhail Pletnev (piano)
- Deutsche Grammophon 00289 474 8682.
Jonathan Swift
Gulliver’s Travels (excerpt), reader Tom Goodman-Hill
00:27Modest Mussorgsky
'Ballet of the Unhatched Chicks' from Pictures at an Exhibition
Performer: Berlin Philharmonic Performer: Simon Rattle (conductor)
- EMI 51758226.
00:28Modest Mussorgsky
'The Hut on Fowl's Legs (Baba Yaga)' from Pictures at an Exhibition
Performer: Berlin Philharmonic Performer: Simon Rattle (conductor)
- EMI 51758226.
Mary Shelley
Frankenstein (excerpt), reader Tom Goodman-Hill
00:32Alban Berg
Act III Interlude from Wozzeck
Performer: Staatskapelle Berlin Performer: Daniel Barenboim (conductor)
- Teldec 0630-14108-2.
Emily Dickinson
Untitled, reader Lesley Manville
00:36Johann Sebastian Bach
Weinen, Klagen, Sorgen, Zagen (BWV 12)
Performer: Collegium Vocale Gent Performer: Philippe Herreweghe (conductor)
- Harmonia Mundi HMC 901843.
George Orwell
Nineteen-Eighty-Four (excerpt), reader Lesley Manville
00:44Dmitry Shostakovich
Largo from Symphony No. 4 (excerpt)
Performer: Scottish National Orchestra Performer: Neeme Järvi (conductor)
- Chandos CHAN 8640.
Quentin Crisp
The Naked Civil Servant (excerpt), reader Tom Goodman-Hill
00:48Robert Farnon
Portrait of a Flirt
Performer: New London Orchestra Performer: Ronald Corp (conductor)
- Hyperion CDS 44263.
Jeanette Winterson
Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit (excerpt), reader Lesley Manville
00:52The Dixie Hummingbirds
Devil Can't Harm a Praying Man
Performer: The Dixie Hummingbirds
- Shout! 2950682.
Maya Angelou
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings (excerpt), reader Lesley Manville
00:54Rezs? Seress
Gloomy Sunday
Performer: Billie Holiday
- Verve 549-081-2.
- 10.
00:58Gesualdo
O vos omnes
Performer: Tallis Scholars Performer: Peter Phillips (conductor)
- Gimell CDGIM 015.
Albert Camus, trans. Joseph Laredo
The Outsider (excerpt), reader Tom Goodman-Hill
01:02Ludwig van Beethoven
Grosse Fugue, Op. 133
Performer: Lindsay String Quartet
- ASV CDDCS 403.
01:06Benjamin Britten
Violin Concerto (3rd mov)
Performer: Maxim Vengerov (violin) Performer: London Symphony Orchestra Performer: Mstislav Rostropovich (conductor)
- EMI 5575102.
John Clare
I Am, reader Tom Goodman-Hill
Broadcast
- Sun 29 Jan 2012 18:30Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Radio 3