Abundance
Abundance: plenty, excess and enough. Hayley Carmichael and Nicholas Farrell read poems by Ted Hughes, Louis MacNeice and Thomas Campion with music from Prokofiev, Dutilleux and Thomas Tallis.
Producer NATALIE STEED.
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Music Played
Timings (where shown) are from the start of the programme in hours and minutes
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00:00
Benjamin Britten
Bacchus, Six Metamorphoses After Ovid,
Performer: Helen Jahren
- BIS CD737.
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Ted Hughes
Midas, Tales from Ovid, reader, Nicholas Farrell
00:02Johann Sebastian Bach
Aria, Goldberg Variations
Performer: Angela Hewitt
- Hyperion CDA67305.
- 01.
00:06Frederick Delius
Autumn; North Country Sketches
Performer: Ulster Orchestra, Conducted by Vernon Handley
- CHANDOS CHAN8413.
Gerard Manley Hopkins
Hurrahing in Harvest, reader, Nicholas Farrell
00:20Harvey Schmidt; Words by: Tom Jones
My Cup Runneth Over (Young Gifted and Black Outtake)
Performer: Aretha Franklin
- Rhino B000S75BQI.
Agnes Newton Keith
A Birthday: Japanese Prison Camp, Kuching, Borneo, 5 April 1944, reader, Hayley Carmichael
00:12Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Chocolate: SpanishDance; Nutcracker
Performer: London Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Charles Mackerras
- TELARC CD80137Or.
00:21Anon.
La plus grant chière
Performer: Orlando Consort
- Harmonia Mundi HMU907314.
Chaucer (trans Forrest A Hainline)
The Franklin, from the General Prologue, The Canterbury Tales, reader Nicholas Farrell
00:26Sergey Prokofiev
Scene and Waltz of the Diamonds; from Suite from the Stone Flower
Performer: Scottish National Orchestra , conducted by Neeme Järvi
- CHANDOS CHAN8806.
Gustav Flaubert; trans Gerard Hopkins
Madame Bovary (extracts); reader Hayley Carmichael
Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa, trans Archibald Colquhoun, reader Nicholas Farrell
The Leopard (extract), reader Nicholas Farrell
00:33Ray Davies
Maximum Consumption
Performer: The Kinks
- Koch B000IONTAG.
Thomas Campion
There is a Garden in her Face, reader Nicholas Farrell
00:37John Dowland
The Right Honourable the Lord Viscount Lisle, his Galliard
Performer: Nigel North
- NAXOS 8556840.
00:40Henri Dutilleux
Cello Concerto, II Regard (Extrêmement calme)
Performer: Mstislav Rostropovich (cello), Orchestre de Paris conducted by Serge Baudo
- Hyperion EMI CDC 7493042.
Elizabeth Jennings
My Grandmother, reader Hayley Carmichael
Seamus Heaney
Blackberry Picking, reader Nicholas Farrell
00:49Anon.
Izhe khieruvimui
Performer: Tallis Scholars
- GIMELL 4549022.
- 8.
00:51Claude Debussy
Feux d'Artifice, Preludes, Book 2
Performer: Walter Giesking (Paino)
- EMI CDH7610042.
- 24.
00:54Dmitry Shostakovich
Barrel Organ Waltz, from The Gadfly
Performer: Academy of St Martin-in-the-Fields, conducted by Sir Neville Marriner
- EMI CDC7490432.
Arnold Bennet
Journal, 1905 A Roundabout in Montmartre, reader Hayley Carmichael
00:56Jacques Brel
Il Neige sur Liège
Performer: Jacques Brel
- BARCLAY 9808169.
00:59Franz Liszt
Etudes d'exécution transcendante, NoXII in B flat minor, Chasse-neige
Performer: Boris Berezovsky
- TELDEC 4509984152.
Louis Macneice
Snow, reader Nicholas Farrell
01:05Thomas Tallis
Spem in Alium (motet à 40 voix pour 8 chœurs)
Performer: New College Oxford Choir
- K617 K617010.
Broadcasts
- Sun 19 Feb 2012 18:30Â鶹ԼÅÄ Radio 3
- Sun 23 Dec 2012 18:30Â鶹ԼÅÄ Radio 3