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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.

1 hour, 15 minutes

Last on

Sun 18 Mar 2012 18:30

Music Played

Timings (where shown) are from the start of the programme in hours and minutes

  • 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.
  • Charles Dickens

    Extract from Hard Times, Richard Wilson

  • 00:03

    Georges 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

  • 00:06

    Joseph 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

  • 00:12

    Pink Floyd

    Another Brick In The Wall, Part 2

    Performer: Pink Floyd

    • EMI, 8312432.
  • D.H Lawrence

    Afternoon in School The last Lesson, Celia Imrie

  • 00:17

    Johannes Brahms

    Academic Festival Overture, Op. 80

    Performer: Philadelphia Orchestra, conducted by Riccardo Muti

    • Philips, 422334-2.
    • 5.
  • 00:27

    BΓ©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

  • 00:30

    Cooke/Alpert/Adler

    Wonderful World

    Performer: Sam Cooke

    • RCA, ND89903.
    • 5.
  • Fleur Adcock

    Extract from Nature Table, Celia Imrie

  • 00:33

    Leopold Mozart (attrib. Haydn)

    Toy Symphony, 1st mvt.

    Performer: Stuttgart Chamber Orchestra

    • Decca, 458595-2.
  • Edward Lucie-Smith

    The Lesson, Richard Wilson

  • 00:37

    Robert Schumann

    Traumerei from Kinderszenen, Op 15, no. 7

    Performer: Angela Hewitt (piano)

    • Hyperion, CDA67780.
    • 7.
  • 00:40

    Sir 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

  • 00:43

    Black/London

    To Sir With Love

    Performer: Al Green

    • Hi Records, hiukcd141.
    • 23.
  • 00:46

    Geoffrey 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

  • 00:51

    Johann 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

  • 00:54

    Benjamin 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.
  • 00:58

    FrΓ©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

  • 01:06

    Johann 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

  • 01:10

    Elgar arr. John Cameron

    Lux aeterna (Nimrod)

    Performer: Choir of King’s College, Cambridge, directed by Stephen Cleobury

    • EMI Classics, 2289440.
    • 2.

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