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Imtiaz Dharker

Michael Berkeley's guest is the poet Imtiaz Dharker, who was awarded the Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry in 2014.

Imtiaz Dharker was awarded the Queen’s Gold Medal for Poetry in 2014, and has published seven collections of her verse. She’s performed her poems to thousands of students at Poetry Live events, a scheme founded by her late husband Simon Rhys Powell.

Imtiaz was born in Lahore in Pakistan and was six months old when her family moved to Glasgow. There she grew up as – in her words – β€œa Muslim Calvinist”.

When she was 17 she fell in love with her first husband, married in secret and eloped to India. As a result she was disowned by her family, but began to publish her first poems. She illustrates all her collections with pen and ink drawings.

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  • AntonΓ­n DvoΕ™Γ‘k

    Song to the Moon (Rusalka)

    Singer: Lucia Popp. Orchestra: Munich Radio Orchestra. Conductor: Stefan SoltΓ©sz.
    • EMI.

  • Mohammed Rafi

    Yeh Duniya Agar Mil Bhi Jaye To Kaye Hai?

    • Pyaasa Origial Motion Picture Soundtrack.
    • EMI.
    • 3.

  • Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov

    Scheherazade (The Story of the Kalendar Prince)

    Conductor: Lorin Maazel. Orchestra: Berliner Philharmoniker.
    • Scheherazade.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.
    • 2.

  • FrΓ©dΓ©ric Chopin

    Nocturne in E flatr Op.9 No.2

    Performer: Arthur Rubinstein.
    • Rubinstein Plays Chopin.
    • RCA Red Seal.
    • 7.

  • AntonΓ­n DvoΕ™Γ‘k

    Songs my mother taught me

    Performer: Beatrice Harrison.
    • Nightingales and Beatrice Harrison.
    • HMV.
    • 001.

  • Olivier Messiaen

    Quartet for the end of Time (1st mvt)

    Ensemble: Hebrides Ensemble. Conductor: William Conway.
    • Messiaen: Chamber Works.
    • Linn Records.
    • 1.

  • Pejman Tadayon

    Sufi Zikr

    Performer: Pejman Tadayon.
    • Silk Road.
    • FM Records Music.
    • 5.

  • Max Richter

    Voices: Chorale - Pt. 4

    Singer: Grace Davidson. Choir: Tenebrae. Conductor: Robert Ziegler.
    • Voices.
    • Decca (UMO) (Classics).
    • 12.

  • Billie Holiday & The Tony Scott Orchestra

    Strange Fruit Tony Scott version

    • Lady Sings the Blues.
    • Verve.
    • 5.

  • Philip Glass

    String Quartet no.3 'Mishima' (6th mvt)

    Ensemble: Kronos Quartet.
    • Kronos Quartet performs Philip Glass.
    • Nonesuch.
    • 18.

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  • Sun 26 May 2024 12:00
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