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'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 – 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 – 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

1 hour, 14 minutes

Last on

Sun 9 Oct 2022 17:30

Music Played

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

  • 00:00

    Trad.

    The Gold Ring Jig

    Performer: Jordi Savall. Performer: Andrew Lawrence‐King. Performer: Frank McGuire.
    • ALIA VOX AVSA9878.
    • Tr 8.
  • 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

  • 00:03

    Sarah Davachi

    Gold upon white

    Performer: Sarah Davachi.
    • LATE MUSIC LMICD.
    • Tr 12.
  • 00:05

    Robert Schumann

    Du Ring an meinem Finger (Frauenliebe und leben, Op 42)

    Singer: Dame Sarah Connolly. Performer: Eugene Asti.
    • CHANDOS CHAN10492.
    • Tr 23.
  • 00:08

    Trad.

    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

  • 00:11

    Ron Dunbar

    Band of Gold

    Performer: Freda Payne.
    • Sequel Records NEMCD 969.
    • Tr 1.
  • Jo Clement

    Inheritance read by Susan Twist

  • 00:15

    Gustav 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

  • 00:22

    Miguel 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

  • 00:24

    Arvo PΓ€rt

    Cantus in memoriam Benjamin Britten

    Orchestra: Tapiola Sinfonietta. Performer: Juho Vartiainen. Conductor: Jean‐Jacques Kantorow.
    • BIS BIS-CD-834.
    • Tr 5.
  • John Donne

    Bells read by Chris Jack

  • 00:31

    Penguin Cafe Orchestra

    Telephone and Rubberband

    Performer: Penguin Cafe Orchestra.
    • Editions EG – EGM 113.
    • Tr 3.
  • Doris Lessing

    The Golden Notebook read by Susan Twist

  • 00:35

    Big Thief

    Velvet Ring

    Performer: Big Thief.
    • Saddle Creek – LBJ-233.
    • Tr 9.
  • William Shakespeare

    The Merchant of Venice read by Susan Twist and Chris Jack

  • 00:37

    Franz 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

  • 00:42

    Booker T. & The M.G.'s

    Green Onions

    • Atlantic – 9548 32589-2.
    • Tr 1.
  • 00:45

    Howard Shore

    Roots and beginnings

    Choir: London Voices. Orchestra: London Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Howard Shore.
    • REPRISE 093624996903.
    • Tr 1.
  • 00:47

    Howard 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

  • 00:48

    John 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

  • 00:54

    The 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

  • 00:54

    Tsukasa 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

  • 00:59

    Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Adagio k. 356 (617a) for glass harmonica

    Performer: Thomas Bloch.
    • NAXOS 8.555295.
    • Tr 6.
  • 01:02

    Trad.

    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

  • 01:05

    Ludwig van Beethoven

    Sonata no. 15 in D major Op.28 (Pastoral) for piano: 4th mvt; Rondo

    Performer: Jonathan Biss.
    • ONYX ONYX-4115.
    • Tr 4.
  • 01:10

    Richard 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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