Susan Sharpe's selection includes a concert in tribute to Pablo Casals. 
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Producer's Notes
Where does the world begin? Where does it end? Where home and what is is abroad? Why are so many of us determined to carve out our own territory? This week’s Words and Music will be examining the idea of borders – those that are political; those that are voluntary; those we use to define ourselves; those that baffle us and those we simply have to cross. Border country is often disputed – often a kind of no-man’s land so you wouldn’t expect the journey to be straightforward.
There are leaps and detours en route… from Kafka’s parable about the construction of the Great Wall of China to Marilynne Robinson’s watery meditations on memory and loss; and from Chopin’s dramatic exploration of the frontiers between major and minor keys to Ligeti’s experiment to create the musical equivalent of a decomposing body.
It’s all about where we draw the line, when we do and why we refuse, when we don’t!
Producer: Zahid Warley -
Playlist
Details of readings and music
Times are from the start of the programme
Music: West Side Story
Performer: Leonard Bernstein
Name of piece: Prologue
Composer: Leonard Bernstein
Name of CD: West Side Story
CD Code: Deutsche Grammophon 4571992
Track on CD 1: 1
Reading:
Author of text: Edwin Muir
Name of text: The Interrogation
From Book: The Collected Poems of Edwin Muir
Reader: Penelope Wilton
Music: West Side Story
Performer: Leonard Bernstein
Name of piece: Jet Song
Composer: Leonard Bernstein
Name of CD: West Side Story
CD Code: Deutsche Grammophon 4571992
Track on CD 1: 2
Reading
Author of text: Seamus Heaney
Name of text: Casualty sections 1 and 2
From Book: Field Work
Reader: Samuel West
Music
Performer: San Francisco Symphony – Edo de Waart conductor
Name of piece: Tromba lontana
Composer: John Adams
Name of CD: The Chairman Dances
CD Code: Nonesuch 9791442
Track on CD: 3 -
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Reading
Author of text: Reiner Kunze
Name of text: The Wall
From Book: Modern Poetry in Translation -Frontiers
Translator: Robin Fulton
Reader: Samuel West
Music
Performer: The Band
Name of piece: The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down
Composer: J.R.Robertson
Name of CD: The Band
CD Code: Capitol CDP7464932
Track on CD: 3
Reading
Author of text: Franz Kafka
Name of text: From the Great Wall of China
From Book: The Great Wall of China and other short works
Translator: Malcolm Pasley
Reader: Penelope Wilton
Music
Performer: Blandine Verlet
Name of piece: Les Barricades Mysterieuses
Composer: Francois Couperin
Name of CD: Barricades Mysterieuses
CD Code: Astree E8649
Track on CD: 15
Reading
Author of text: C.P.Cavafy
Name of text: Waiting for the Barbarians
From Book: Collected Poems
Translators: Edmund Keeley and Philip Sherrard
Reader: Penelope Wilton -
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Music
Performer: Ensemble InterContemporain conductor Pierre Boulez.
Name of piece: Ramifcations
Composer: Gyorgy Ligeti
Name of CD: Ligeti: Kammerkonzert
CD Code: Deutsche Grammophon 4232442
Track on CD: 5
Reading
Author of text: Mahmoud Darwish
Name of text: Identity Card
From Book:
Translator: Philip Metres
Reader: Samuel West
Music
Performer: Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five
Name of piece: The Message
Composer: E.Fletcher, M Glover, G.Chase and S Robinson.
Name of CD: The Message
CD Code: Deep Beats DEEPCD001
Track on CD: 2
Reading
Author of text: Hans Magnus Enzensberger
Name of text: Identity Check
From Book: The Sinking of the Titanic
Translator: Hans Magnus Enzensberger
Reader: Hans Magnus Enzensberger
Music
Performer:
Name of piece: Symphony No. 2 Le Double – first movement
Composer: Henri Dutilleux
Name of CD: Metaboles/ Symphonie No 2
CD Code: EMI CDC5571432
Track on CD: 12 -
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Reading
Author of text: John Donne
Name of text: From Meditation XVII
From Book: Devotions upon Emergent Occasions
Reader: Penelope Wilton
Music
Performer: Ella Fitzgerald
Name of piece: Ev’ry Time we Say Good-bye
Composer: Cole Porter
Name of CD: The Cole Porter Songbook Volume 1
CD Code: VERVE 8219892
Track on CD: 11
Reading
Author of text: Tennyson
Name of text: Now Sleeps the Crimson Petal
From Book: Penguin’s Poems for Life
Reader: Samuel West
Music
Performer: Alfred Brendel
Name of piece: Bagatelle sans Tonalite
Composer: Liszt
Name of CD: Alfred Brendel plays Liszt
CD Code: VOX BOX CDX5172
Track on CD2: 11
Reading
Author of text: Marilynne Robinson
Name of text: From Chapter 8 Housekeeping
From Book: Housekeeping
Reader: Penelope Wilton
Music
Performer: Maurizio Pollini
Name of piece: Ballade no.2
Composer: Chopin
Name of CD: Chopin: 4 Ballades
CD Code: Deutsche Grammophon 4596832
Track on CD: 2
Reading
Author of text: Shakespeare
Name of text: Sonnet – When most I wink
From Book: Complete Works
Reader: Penelope Wilton -
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Music
Performer: Maurizio Pollini
Name of piece: Ballade no.2
Composer: Chopin
Name of CD: Chopin: 4 Ballades
CD Code: Deutsche Grammophon 4596832
Track on CD: 2
Reading
Author of text: Don Paterson
Name of text: Phantom – section 1
From Book: Rain
Reader: Samuel West
Music
Performer: Jon Balke
Name of piece: O Andalusin
Composer: Jon Balke
Name of CD: Siwan
CD Code: ECM 2042
Track on CD: 2
Reading
Author of text: Shinjiro Kurahara
Name of text: An Old Fox
From Book: Modern Poetry in Translation - Frontiers
Translator: William Elliott and Katsumasa Nishihara
Reader: Penelope Wilton
Broadcasts
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BBC Radio 3Sun 3 Jan 2010 22:15 BBC Radio 3
