Education
Texts and music on the theme of education, with readings by Richard Wilson and Celia Imrie. With Keats, Dickens and Mary Shelley, plus Barber, Schumann and Britten.
This week's Words and Music explores the theme of education. Richard Wilson and Celia Imrie read poetry and prose exploring educational experience, from primary school nature tables and terrifying school mistresses, to the 'cloistral hush' of Oxford University and the darker resonances of learning in Mary Shelley's Frankenstein. Musical accompaniment includes work by Barber, Schumann and Britten as well as Bartok, Leopold Mozart, Rufus Wainwright and Brahms.
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Timings (where shown) are from the start of the programme in hours and minutes
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00:01
Benjamin Britten
The Young Person's Guide to the Orchestra
Orchestra: North German Radio Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Alan Gilbert.Performer: LSO, conducted by Benjamin Britten
- Decca, 458595-2.
- 1.
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Charles Dickens
Extract from Hard Times, Richard Wilson
00:03Georges Bizet
Children's Games, March
Performer: L’orchestre de la Suisse Romande, conducted by Ernest Ansermet
- Decca, 458595-2.
Jane Kenyon
Trouble with Math in a One-Room Country School, Celia Imrie
00:06Joseph Haydn
Finale from Sonata in E flat Hob. XVI: 49
Performer: Alfred Brendl (piano)
- Philips, 416644-2.
Clive Sansom
School Mistress Miss Humm, Richard Wilson
00:12Pink Floyd
Another Brick In The Wall, Part 2
Performer: Pink Floyd
- EMI, 8312432.
D.H Lawrence
Afternoon in School The last Lesson, Celia Imrie
00:17Johannes Brahms
Academic Festival Overture, Op. 80
Performer: Philadelphia Orchestra, conducted by Riccardo Muti
- Philips, 422334-2.
- 5.
00:27BΓ©la BartΓ³k
For Children, Volume 1, no. 2 (Children's Song)
Performer: Zoltan Kocsis (piano)
- Hungaroton, HCD12304.
- 2.
James Hilton
Extract from Goodbye Mr Chips, Richard Wilson
00:30Cooke/Alpert/Adler
Wonderful World
Performer: Sam Cooke
- RCA, ND89903.
- 5.
Fleur Adcock
Extract from Nature Table, Celia Imrie
00:33Leopold Mozart (attrib. Haydn)
Toy Symphony, 1st mvt.
Performer: Stuttgart Chamber Orchestra
- Decca, 458595-2.
Edward Lucie-Smith
The Lesson, Richard Wilson
00:37Robert Schumann
Traumerei from Kinderszenen, Op 15, no. 7
Performer: Angela Hewitt (piano)
- Hyperion, CDA67780.
- 7.
00:40Sir Malcolm Arnold, arr. Christopher Palmer
Comedy Suite from The Belles of St Trinian's
Performer: Paul Janes (piano), Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Philharmonic, conducted by Ramon Gamba
- Chandos, CHAN 9851.
- 18 & 19.
Enid Blyton
Extract from First Term at Malory Towers, Celia Imrie
Perry Brass
I Think the New Teacher's Queer, Richard Wilson
00:43Black/London
To Sir With Love
Performer: Al Green
- Hi Records, hiukcd141.
- 23.
00:46Geoffrey Burgon
Brideshead Revisted (title theme)
Orchestra: Philharmonia Orchestra. Conductor: Geoffrey Burgon.Performer: The Philharmonia Orchestra, conducted by Geoffrey Burgon
- Silva Screen, FILMCD117.
- 1.
Evelyn Waugh
Extract from Brideshead Revisited, Richard Wilson
Robert Southey
His Books, Celia Imrie
00:51Johann Sebastian Bach
Toccata and Fugue in D minor, BWV. 565
Performer: Simon Preston (organ)
- DG, 427668-2.
- 1.
Mary Shelley
Extract from Frankenstein, Richard Wilson
00:54Benjamin Britten
Act Two, scene 4 (extract)
Performer: Helen Donath (Governess), Michael Ginn (Miles), Robert Tear (Quint), members of the Orchestra of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, conducted by Sir Colin Davis
- Philips, 446325-2.
00:58FrΓ©dΓ©ric Chopin
Barcarolle in F sharp major Op.60
Performer: Krystian Zimerman.Performer: Nelson Goerner (piano)
- EMI, 6316662.
Diane Wakoski
Thanking My Mother for Piano Lessons, Celia Imrie
01:06Johann Strauss II - Studenten Polka Op. 263 (RV 263)
Performer: CSSR Philharmonic Orchestra, conducted by Richard Edlinger
William Wordsworth
Residence at Cambridge, extract from The Prelude. Richard Wilson
01:10Elgar arr. John Cameron
Lux aeterna (Nimrod)
Performer: Choir of King’s College, Cambridge, directed by Stephen Cleobury
- EMI Classics, 2289440.
- 2.
Broadcast
- Sun 18 Mar 2012 18:30Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Radio 3