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Ancient Greece

Actors Tim McMullan and Clare Higgins read poems and prose extracts by Shakespeare, Keats, Auden and ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½r etc on the subject of Ancient Greece. With music by Schubert, Tippett, Bernstein, Stravinsky and Ravel

1 hour, 15 minutes

Last on

Sun 24 Oct 2010 22:15

Music Played

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

  • 00:00

    Maurice Ravel

    Lever du jour from Daphnis et Chloe, Lever du jour from Daphnis et Chloe

    Performer: Boston Symphony Orchestra, Claudio Abbado

    • DG4594392.
  • Keats

    On first looking into Chapman’s ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½r (CH)

  • ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½r (trans by George Chapman)

    Beg of The Odyssey (CH)

  • 00:06

    MAW

    Odyssey

    Performer: CBSO, Simon Rattle

    • EMI 7542772.
  • Cavafy (trans Edmund Keeley & Philip Sherrard)

    Ithaka (CH)

  • 00:11

    Henri Duparc

    L'invitation au voyage

    Performer: Barbara Hendricks, soprano, Orchestre de l’Opera de Lyon, John Eliot Gardiner

    • EMI7496892.
  • Tennyson

    Ulysses (TM)

  • 00:20

    Jacques Offenbach

    Couplets des Rois from La belle Helene

    Performer: Various soloists, Les Musiciens du Louvre, Marc Minkowski

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  • Marlowe

    Faust’s speech from Dr Faustus (TM)

  • 00:24

    Richard Strauss

    Zweite Brautnacht from Die Agyptische Helene

    Performer: Deborah Voigt, Helen, American Symphony Orchestra, Leon Botstein

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  • Shakespeare

    Intro to Troilus and Cressida (CH)

  • 00:30

    Tippett

    Start of King Priam ("War! War!")

    Performer: London Sinfonietta, London Sinfonietta Chorus, David Atherton

    • Chandos9406.
  • W. H. Auden

    The Shield of Achilles (TM)

  • 00:35

    Tippett

    O rich-soiled land from King Priam

    Performer: Robert Tear, Achilles, Timothy Walker, guitar, David Atherton

    • Chandos9406.
  • Cavafy (trans Edmund Keeley & Philip Sherrard)

    The Horses of Achilles (CH)

  • 00:40

    Leonard Bernstein

    Agathon from Serenade (after Plato's Symposium)

    Performer: Gidon Kremer, violin, Israel Philharmonic, Leonard Bernstein

    • DG447947.
  • Plato (trans Benjamin Jowett)

    Agathon’s speech from the Symposium (TM)

  • Racine (trans by Robert Bruce Boswell)

    from Phaedra (CH)

  • 00:50

    Benjamin Britten

    Start of Phaedra to "I want your sword's spasmodic final inch"

    Performer: Ann Murray, mezzo, ECO, Steuart Bedford

    • Collins70372.
  • Goethe (trans Stephen Plunkett)

    Ganymede (CH)

  • 00:57

    Schubert

    Ganymede

    Performer: Ian Bostridge, tenor, Julius Drake, piano

    • EMI56347.
  • Yeats

    Leda and the Swan (TM)

  • 01:02

    Igor Stravinsky

    Prologue to Apollon Musagete

    Performer: Sinfonietta de Montreal, Charles Dutoit

    • Decca440327.
  • Matthew Arnold

    Apollo Musagetes (TM)

  • 01:09

    Richard Strauss

    End of An dem Baum Daphne

    Performer: ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Singers, Choristers of Kings College, Cambridge, Stephen Cleobury

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