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Last broadcast on Sun, 19 Jul 2009, 22:15 on BBC Radio 3.
Synopsis
As part of the BBC Poetry Season, a selection of poems recommended by BBC Radio 3 presenters. Including work by Gerard Manley Hopkins, Keats, WH Auden, Emily Dickinson, Edna St Vincent Millay and Maya Angelou, and music by Bach, Shostakovich, Nina Simone, Schubert, Martinu and Yasmin Levy.
The choices include Jez Nelson on Langston Hughes's The Negro Speaks of Rivers, Rob Cowan on I Could Not Stop by Emily Dickinson, Fiona Talkington on Sonnet XLVII by Edna St Vincent Millay and Stephen Johnson on September 1, 1939 by WH Auden. The readers are Tamsin Greig and Alex Jennings.
Producer's Notes
As part of the BBC Poetry Season we asked the Radio 3 presenters to suggest a poem that they would like to recommend to listeners. So this Words and Music is a special edition in which you’ll hear just some of the presenters introducing their choice of poem. If you look below you’ll see the full details of the poems they’ve picked along with their musical choices.
And you might like to go to the Poetry on 3 pages of the Radio 3 website – just go to bbc.co.uk/radio3 and follow the links. There you’ll find the poetry recommendations by other Radio 3 presenters including Sara Mohr-Pietsch, Iain Burnside, Suzy Klein, Lucie Skeaping, Catherine Bott, Alyn Shipton, John Shea and James Jolly. You’ll also be able to hear again the Poems for Today that were broadcast over the last few weeks on the Breakfast show and Afternoon on 3.
Fiona McLean - producer
Details of Readings and Music
Times are from the start of the programme
00:00:00
SAMUEL BARBER
A Stopwatch and an Ordnance Map
Choral Music
Cambridge University Chamber Choir
GAMUT GAMCD535
00:00:43
LUCY DURAN introduces
00:01:37
JANE DURAN
Spanish Peasant Boy
Tamsin Greig (reader)
00:02:13
YASMIN LEVY
Mal de l’Amor
Mano Suave
WORLD VILLAGE 450003
00:06:42
GEOFFREY SMITH introduces
00:07:07
GERARD MANLEY HOPKINS
The Windhover
Alex Jennings (reader)
00:08:36
J.S. BACH
Violin Concerto in A Minor – Andante
Susanne Lautenbacher – violin
Mainzer Kammerorchester
BAYER BR100070
00:10:59
JOHN KEATS
On first looking into Chapman’s Homer
Tamsin Greig (reader)
(Suzi Klein's choice)
00:15:34
ROB COWAN introduces
00:16:05
EMILY DICKINSON
Because I could not stop
Tamsin Greig (reader)
00:17:00
SCHUBERT
Die Stadt
Schwanengesang
Olaf Bar – baritone
Geoffrey Parsons – piano
EMI CLASSICS 5 66145 2
00:19:50
CHI-CHI NWANOKU introduces
00:20:51
MAYA ANGELOU
Still I Rise
Maya Angelou (reader)
...
00:23:02
NINA SIMONE
Mississippi Goddam
Feeling Good
MERCURY 5227472
00:27:45
MARY ANN KENNEDY introduces
00:28:14
EDWIN MUIR
The Confirmation
Alex Jennings (reader)
00:29:20
ALY BAIN
The Day Dawn
Follow the Moonstone
WHIRLIECD4
00:33:25
PHILIP DODD introduces
00:33:58
PHILIP LARKIN
Cut Grass
Alex Jennings (reader)
00:34:31
DUKE ELLINGTON
Morning Glory
The Blanton-Webster Band
BLUEBIRD 74321131812
00:37:50
FIONA TALKINGTON introduces
00:38:40
EDNA ST VINCENT MILLAY
Sonnet XLVII
Tamsin Greig (reader)
...
00:39:36
SCOTT JOPLIN
Bethena Waltz
Piano Rags
ELEKTRA NONESUCH 7559791592
00:44:55
EMILY DICKINSON
I heard a fly buzz
Tamsin Greig (reader)
(Iain Burnside's choice)
00:45:47
LANGSTON HUGHES
The Negro Speaks of Rivers
Langston Hughes (reader)
00:46:35
JEZ NELSON
00:47:10
GARY BARTZ
I’ve Known Rivers
I’ve Known Rivers and Other Bodies
PRESTIGE PRCD660012
00:49:33
RANA MITTER introduces
00:49:45
SHOSTAKOVICH
De Profundis
Symphony no 14
Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau
Bernard Haitink – conductor
DECCA 4175142
00:54:28
STEPHEN JOHNSON introduces
00:55:02
W.H. AUDEN
September 1, 1939
Alex Jennings (reader)
00:59:16
BOHUSLAV MARTINU
Concerto for Double String Orchestra, Piano and Timpani – largo
Czech Philharmonic Orchestra
Jiri Belohlavek – conductor
CHANDOS CHAN8950
01:07:31
IAN SKELLY introduces
01:08:26
KATHLEEN RAINE
The World
Tamsin Greig (reader)
01:08:44
JOHN TAVENER
Mother and Child
Children of Men
Tenebrae
Nigel Short - director
VARESE SARABANDE VSD6769
Broadcast
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Sun 19 Jul 200922:15
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