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Eminently Victorian

Texts and music on the theme of the Victorian world, with readings by Anna Maxwell Martin and Rory Kinnear. With Eliot, Wilde and Browning, plus music by Elgar and Mendelssohn.

Eminently Victorian is a kind of stumble or headlong trip into the kaleidoscopic world of the 19th century. It's a world which embraces Elgar, Mendelssohn and William Sterndale Bennett as easily as George Eliot, Oscar Wilde and Robert Browning. At once familiar and strange it still seems seems utterly contemporary. Anna Maxwell Martin and Rory Kinnear conjure up Gwendolen Harleth and Gunga Din amongst others and the music whirls from the vernacular of Gilbert and Sullivan to Samuel Coleridge Taylor's The Song of Hiawatha.

Producer: Zahid Warley.

1 hour, 15 minutes

Last on

Mon 22 Dec 2014 16:30
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Music Played

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

  • 00:00

    Hector Berlioz

    Requiem, Op.5

    Performer: London Symphony Orchestra and Chorus

    • PHILIPS 4162832.

  • Matthew Arnold

    Dover Beach, Rory Kinnear

  • 00:07

    William Sterndale Bennett

    Adagio

    Performer: Malcolm Binns, Philharmonia Orchestra

    • LYRITA SRCD.205.

  • Wilkie Collins

    From The Woman in White, Anna Maxwell Martin

  • 00:13

    Felix Mendelssohn

    Arioso from Elijah

    Performer: Wolfgang Sawallisch and Rundfunkchor and Gewandhausorchester Leipzig

    • PHILIPS 4383682.

  • Robert Browning

    My Last Duchess, Rory Kinnear

  • 00:19

    Max Bruch

    Violin Concerto

    Performer: Kyung Wha Chung

    • DECCA 4485972.

  • J.K.Stephen

    After the Golden Wedding, The Husband’s Soliloquy, Rory Kinnear

  • 00:30

    Mrs. Joseph Robinson

    Constancy

    Performer: Alan Etherden

    • HUNTERS MOON HMPCD0183.

  • George Eliot

    From Daniel Deronda, Anna Maxwell Martin

  • 00:34

    Edward Elgar

    Sospiri

    Performer: Sir John Barbirolli and New Philharmonia Orchestra

    • EMI 077774753722.

  • George Meredith

    Modern Love, Sonnet 1, Anna Maxwell Martin

  • 00:41

    Gilbert & Sullivan - The Policeman's lot is not a happy one

    Performer: New Promenade Orchestra, Isidore Godfrey

  • Joseph Conrad

    From The Secret Agent, Anna Maxwell Martin

  • 00:43

    Gustav Holst

    The Planets, Mars

    Performer: Wiener Philharmoniker, Herbert von Karajan

    • DECCA 4523032.

  • Rudyard Kipling

    Gunga Din, Rory Kinnear

  • 00:53

    Samuel Coleridge-Taylor

    Scenes from Hiawatha, Hiawatha's Vision

    Performer: Orchestra and Chorus of the Welsh National Opera

    • ARGO 4303562.

  • Henry Mayhew

    From London Labour and the London Poor, Anna Maxwell Martin

  • 01:02

    Felix Mendelssohn

    Lied Ohne Worte, Op. 62.No. 6, Fruhlingslied from Mendelssohn The Complete Masterpieces

    Performer: Vladimir Horowitz

    • SONY MUSIC 8869742072226.

  • Oscar Wilde

    Symphony in Yellow, Rory Kinnear

  • 01:04

    Albert Ketèlbey

    A Passing storm on a Summer's Day

    Performer: The new Symphony Orchestra, Stanford Robinson

    • DECCA 4529872.

  • Edmund Gosse

    Lying in the Grass, Rory Kinnear

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  • Sun 1 Jul 2012 18:30
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  • Mon 22 Dec 2014 16:30
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