Rings
'Do you see this ring?' Susan Twist and Chris Jack read from Browning, Anita Desai and Doris Lessing, with music including Holst, Freda Payne and the end of Wagner's great cycle.
"Do you see this ring?"
Robert Browning's poetic description of transformational metal work follows Ovid's Love Book, and both romance and discovery circle this selection of readings. After all, jeweller's rings are often a physical representation of love and longing, not to mention good and bad magic. Their perfectly unbroken, eternal shape also makes them the ideal metaphor - think of Saturn, motorways, halos and pealing bells. With music including a celestial Mozart, the broken-hearted Freda Payne and the end of Wagner's great operatic cycle, Susan Twist and Chris Jack read from writers including Anita Desai, Shakespeare and Doris Lessing. And where would a ring be without its Gollum?...
Produced in Salford by Ewa Norman
Readings:
Ovid: Elegy XV - The Art of Love
Robert Browning: The Ring and the Book - Book 1
Anita Desai: Feasting, Fasting
Jo Clement: Inheritance
J. Koenderink: Therefore Its Name Is Called Babel
WG Seabald: Rings of Saturn
Anthony Joseph: Conductors of His Mystery
John Donne: Devotions Upon Emergent Occasions - Meditation XVII
Doris Lessing: The Golden Notebook
William Shakespeare: The Merchant of Venice
Carol Ann Duffy: Valentine
Tolkein: The Lord of The Rings - The Fellowship of the Ring
Cathy Galvin: Walking the Coventry Ring Road with Lady Godiva
Sam Hickford: Poems Sketched upon the M60 β First Journey: Moston
Virginia Woolf: The Waves
Graham Moore: The Last Days of Night
Joseph Silk: The Infinite Cosmos: Questions from the frontiers of cosmology
Simon Parkin: Elden Ring review β an unrivalled masterpiece of design and inventiveness
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley: Frankenstein
Ameen Rihani: A Sufi Song
Hermann Hesse: Wandering - Notes and Sketches
J. Walker McSpadden: Stories from Wagner
Robert Frost: Ring Around
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The Gold Ring Jig
Performer: Jordi Savall. Performer: Andrew LawrenceβKing. Performer: Frank McGuire.- ALIA VOX AVSA9878.
- Tr 8.
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Translated by J. Lewis May
The Love Books of Ovid read by Susan Twist
Robert Browning
The Ring and The Book read by Susan Twist and Chris Jack
00:03Sarah Davachi
Gold upon white
Performer: Sarah Davachi.- LATE MUSIC LMICD.
- Tr 12.
00:05Robert Schumann
Du Ring an meinem Finger (Frauenliebe und leben, Op 42)
Singer: Dame Sarah Connolly. Performer: Eugene Asti.- CHANDOS CHAN10492.
- Tr 23.
00:08Trad.
Dhun - Raga Yaman Kalyan - Taal Keharwa
Performer: Pandit Vishwa. Performer: Vishwa Mohan Bhatt. Performer: Vishwa Mohan Bhatt. Performer: Abhishek Mishra. Performer: Abhishek Mishra.- Living Media India Ltd. 21054.
- Tr 6.
Anita Desai
Feasting, Fasting read by Susan Twist
00:11Ron Dunbar
Band of Gold
Performer: Freda Payne.- Sequel Records NEMCD 969.
- Tr 1.
Jo Clement
Inheritance read by Susan Twist
00:15Gustav Holst
The Planets - suite, Op.32; Saturn, The Bringer Of Old Age
Orchestra: London Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Vladimir Jurowski.- LPO0047.
- Tr 5.
Jan Koenderink
Saturn read by Susan Twist
WG Seabald
Rings of Saturn read by Chris Jack
00:22Miguel ValdΓ©s
Olokun
Performer: Miguel ValdΓ©s y Su Ensamble de Percusiones.- Ediciones Pentagrama 799285206299.
- Tr 9.
Anthony Joseph
Conductors of His Mystery read by Chris Jack
00:24Arvo PΓ€rt
Cantus in memoriam Benjamin Britten
Orchestra: Tapiola Sinfonietta. Performer: Juho Vartiainen. Conductor: JeanβJacques Kantorow.- BIS BIS-CD-834.
- Tr 5.
John Donne
Bells read by Chris Jack
00:31Penguin Cafe Orchestra
Telephone and Rubberband
Performer: Penguin Cafe Orchestra.- Editions EG β EGM 113.
- Tr 3.
Doris Lessing
The Golden Notebook read by Susan Twist
00:35Big Thief
Velvet Ring
Performer: Big Thief.- Saddle Creek β LBJ-233.
- Tr 9.
William Shakespeare
The Merchant of Venice read by Susan Twist and Chris Jack
00:37Franz LehΓ‘r
Gold and Silver Waltz
Orchestra: Vienna Philharmonic. Conductor: Sir John Eliot Gardiner.- DG 4631852.
- Tr 6.
Carol Ann Duffy
Valentine read by Susan Twist
00:42Booker T. & The M.G.'s
Green Onions
- Atlantic β 9548 32589-2.
- Tr 1.
00:45Howard Shore
Roots and beginnings
Choir: London Voices. Orchestra: London Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Howard Shore.- REPRISE 093624996903.
- Tr 1.
00:47Howard Shore
Gollum's Song
Lyricist: Fran Walsh. Orchestra: London Philharmonic Orchestra. Performer: EmilΓana Torrini. Conductor: Howard Shore.- Reprise 093624841968.
- Tr 19.
J.R.R.Tolkien
The Fellowship of the Ring read by Susan Twist
00:48John Adams
Road movies for violin and piano: 3rd movement; 40% Swing
Performer: Callum Smart. Performer: Richard Uttley.- ORCHID CLASSICS ORC100149.
- Tr 5.
Cathy Galvin
Ring Roads read by Susan Twist
Sam Hickford
First Journey: Moston read by Chris Jack
Virginia Woolf
Smoke Rings read by Susan Twist
00:54The Mills Brothers
Smoke Rings
- FABULOUS 888608986045.
- Tr 11.
Graham Moore
The Last Days of Night read by Susan Twist
Joseph Silk
The Infinite Cosmos: Questions from the frontiers of cosmology read by Chris Jack
00:54Tsukasa Saitoh
Elden Ring Theme
Performer: Studio Orchestra.- Bandai Namco Entertainment M03654.
- Tr 1.
Simon Parkin
Elden Ring review read by Chris Jack
Frankenstein
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley read by Susan Twist
00:59Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Adagio k. 356 (617a) for glass harmonica
Performer: Thomas Bloch.- NAXOS 8.555295.
- Tr 6.
01:02Trad.
Sufi Dance
Performer: Moslem Rahal. Performer: Siar Hashimi. Performer: Siar Hashimi. Performer: Pedro Estevan. Performer: Pedro Estevan.- ALIA VOX AVSA9930.
- Tr 26.
A Sufi Song
Ameen Rihani read by Susan Twist
BΓ€ume: Betrachtungen und Gedichte
Hermann Hesse read by Chris Jack
01:05Ludwig van Beethoven
Sonata no. 15 in D major Op.28 (Pastoral) for piano: 4th mvt; Rondo
Performer: Jonathan Biss.- ONYX ONYX-4115.
- Tr 4.
01:10Richard Wagner
GΓΆtterdΓ€mmerung, WWV 86D (Act III, conclusion)
Singer: Eric Halfvarson. Orchestra: Hong Kong Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Jaap van Zweden.- NAXOS 8.660428-31.
- Tr 15.
Stories from Wagner
J.Walker McSpadden read by Susan Twist
Ring Around
Robert Frost read by Chris Jack
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