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Lost and Found

Texts and music on the theme of being lost, with readers Harriet Walter and Don Warrington. Including Dante, Thoreau and Marquez, plus Beethoven, Bach, Debussy, Kern and Ives.

Lost thoughts, lost paths, lost time, lost love, lost innocence. Harriet Walter and Don Warrington read poetry and prose on the idea of being lost, both physically and metaphysically. The programme ventures into areas of life which can make us fearful; places where emotional states can be raw, some of the writers here are caught up in the emotion of the moment, occasionally bitter, but many are reflective, considering the truths uncovered in moments when the familiar and the known are gone, or obscured. Does this lead to confusion and regret, or to a eureka moment of clarity? The music includes Beethoven, Bach, Debussy, Jerome Kern and Charles Ives.

Producer: Janet Tuppen

READINGS
Dante Alighieri - Inferno Canto I
William Blake - Little Boy Lost
Georgia Douglas Johnson - Lost Illusions
Ian McEwan - Atonement
John Clare - I Am
Stevie Smith - Not Waving But Drowning
Gabriel Garcia Marquez - 100 Years of Solitude
Thoreau - Walden: The Village
Silas Weir Mitchell - Idleness
Adelaide Anne Proctor - A Lost Chord
George MacDonald - Lost and Found
Ivor Gurney - To His Love
Elizabeth Barrett Browning - Grief
Tennyson - In Memoriam AHH
Emily Dickinson - Part Four: Time and Eternity
Zadie Smith - White Teeth
Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass: Continuities
Lewis Carroll - Alice in Wonderland

1 hour, 15 minutes

Last on

Sun 2 Feb 2020 17:30
麻豆约拍 Radio 3

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Music Played

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

  • 00:00

    Franz Liszt

    Dante Symphony

    Performer: Rotterdam Philharmonic, conductor James Conlon.
    • Erato ECD 88162.
    • 1.

  • Dante Alighieri

    1265-1321 Inferno, Canto I, read by Harriet Walter

  • 00:01

    Beethoven

    Piano Sonata in C sharp minor Op.27 No.2 聭Moonlight聮

    Performer: Steven Osborne.
    • Hyperion CDA 67662.
    • 1.

  • William Blake

    Little Boy Lost, read by Don Warrington

  • 00:03

    Dvorak

    Symphony No.9 聭From the New World聮 聳 2nd mvt (Largo)

    Performer: Prague Symphony Orchestra, conductor Charles Mackerras.
    • Supraphon SU38482.
    • 6.

  • Georgia Douglas Johnson

    Lost Illusions, read by Harriet Walter

  • 00:08

    Billie Holiday

    Strange Fruit

    • Verve 5474942.
    • 4.
  • 00:11

    Benjamin Britten

    Turn of the Screw (End of Act I)

    Performer: Orchestra of the Royal Opera House, conductor Colin Davis.
    • Philips 446 326-2.
    • 9.

  • Ian McEwen

    Atonement, read by Harriet Walter

  • 00:15

    Jerome Kern and Noel Coward

    We Were So Young

    • World Records EN2600653.
    • 3.

  • John Clare

    I Am, read by Don Warrington

  • 00:17

    Johann Sebastian Bach

    Partita No.2 for solo violin in D minor, BWV.1004: Sarabande

    Performer: Viktoria Mullova, violin.
    • ONYX 4040.
    • 3.

  • Stevie Smith

    Not Waving But Drowning, read by Harriet Walter

  • 00:22

    Arvo P盲rt

    Fratres for Strings and Percussion

    Performer: London Philharmonic, conductor Franz Welser-Most.
    • Virgin 5624342.
    • 4.

  • Gabriel Garcia Marquez

    100 Years of Solitude, read by Don Warrington

  • 00:27

    Ives

    Piano Sonata no.2 聭Conchord聮 聳 4th mvt, 聭Thoreau聮

    Performer: Peter Lawson (piano).
    • Virgin VBD5619282.
    • 12.

  • Thoreau

    Walden: The Village, read by Harriet Walter

  • 00:35

    Claude Debussy

    Prelude 聳 La Cathedral engloutie

    Performer: Noriko Ogawa (piano).
    • BIS CD 1205.
    • 10.

  • Silas Weir Mitchell

    Idleness, read by Harriet Walter

  • 00:38

    Francis Poulenc

    Organ Concerto in G minor 聳 1st mvt

    Performer: Olivier Latry (organ), Philadelphia Orchestra, conductor Christoph Eschenbach.
    • Ondine ODE10945.
    • 2.

  • Adelaide Anne Procter

    A Lost Chord, read by Harriet Walter

  • 00:39

    Charles鈥怣arie Widor

    Symphony no.5 聳 4th mvt (Allegro)

    Performer: Simon Preston (organ).
    • DG 413 438-2.
    • 4.
  • 00:39

    Charles鈥怣arie Widor

    Symphony no.5 聳 5th mvt

    Performer: Simon Preston (organ).
    • DG 413 438-2.
    • 5.

  • George MacDonald

    Lost and Found, read by Don Warrington

  • 00:46

    Beethoven

    Piano Sonata in D Op.28 Pastorale 聳 2nd mvt

    Performer: Maurizio Pollini (piano).
    • DG 427 7702.
    • 10.

  • Ivor Gurney

    To His Love, read by Don Warrington

  • 00:49

    Gurney

    Severn Meadows

    Performer: Stephen Varcoe (baritone), Clifford Benson (piano).
    • Hyperion CDA 66261/2.
    • 10.

  • Elizabeth Barrett Browning

    Grief, read by Harriet Walter

  • 00:52

    Claudio Monteverdi

    L聮Orfeo (Act 2 excerpt)

    Performer: Marina de Liso (mezzo-soprano), Ensemble La Venexiana, Claudio Cavina.
    • Glossa GCD 920913.
    • 10.

  • Tennyson

    In Memorian A.H.H, read by Don Warrington

  • 00:55

    Edward Elgar

    Enigma Variations - Nimrod

    Performer: Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra, conductor Andrew Litton.
    • EMI CDC 5622002.
    • 5.

  • Emily Dickinson

    Part Four: Time and Eternity, read by Harriet Walter

  • 00:57

    Felix Mendelssohn

    Midsummer Night聮s Dream - Scherzo

    Performer: Leipzig Gewandhaus, conductor Riccardo Chailly.
    • DECCA 5810778.
    • 3.
  • 01:02

    Agust铆n Barrios Mangor茅

    Cueca

    Performer: John Williams.
    • Sony SK64396.
    • 3.

  • Zadie Smith

    White Teeth, read by Don Warrington

  • 01:06

    William Grant Still

    Symphony no.2 in G minor 聭Song of a new race聮 聳 4th mvt

    Performer: Fort Smith Symphony, conductor John Jeter.
    • Naxos 8.559676.
    • 8.

  • Walt Whitman

    Continuities (Leaves of Grass), read by Harriet Walter

  • 01:10

    Michael Masser

    Do you know where you聮re going to? (Theme from Mahogany)

    Performer: Diana Ross.
    • Motown M6-861S1.
    • 1.

  • Lewis Carroll

    Alice in Wonderland, read by Harriet Walter

Producer's Note

Lost thoughts, lost paths, lost time, lost love, lost innocence. In exploring what it means to be lost both physically and metaphysically, this programme ventures into areas of life which can make us fearful; places where emotional states can be raw.

Some of the writers here are caught up in the emotion of the moment, occasionally bitter, but many are reflective, considering the truths uncovered in moments when the familiar and the known are gone, or obscured.聽 Some remain in confusion, some have a eureka moment of clarity, while others come to regret their newly found knowledge and deeper understanding.

With texts by Dante, Thoreau, Marquez, Stevie Smith and Emily Dickinson, and music by Beethoven, Bach, Debussy, Jerome Kern and Charles Ives.

Producer: Janet Tuppen

Broadcasts

  • Sun 23 Apr 2017 17:30
    麻豆约拍 Radio 3
  • Sun 2 Feb 2020 17:30
    麻豆约拍 Radio 3

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