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Revenge

Duration:: 1 hour, 15 minutes

First broadcast:: Sunday 25 November 2012

This week's edition of Words and Music satiates itself on the cold dish of revenge. It's an act of passion meted out on our foes, ourselves, love, old age, the sun....So many subjects have been the focus of humankind's ire. Shakespeare's Titus Andronicus opens the programme with a threat to the foul offender who shall quake at the feet of revenge. And we hear music composed for some of literature's most famous revenge scenes: Romeo's revenge on Tybalt for murdering Mercutio; Diana's revenge upon Actaeon for espying her naked; or the chilling revenge of the Pied Piper upon the citizens of Hamelin. With music by Prokofiev, Mendelssohn and Janacek; and words by Carol Ann Duffy, Ted Hughes and Charles Dickens. The readers and Samantha Bond and Kenneth Cranham.

Producer: Gavin Heard.

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

00:00

Nino Rota The Godfather - Finale
Performer: Carmine Coppola; Pietro Mascagni; The City of Prague Philharmonic; Crouch End Festival Chorus; Paul Bateman
Silva Screen FILMCD344, Tr7
Shakespeare

Titus Andronicus (Samantha Bond)
William Blake

A Poison Tree (Kenneth Cranham)
00:04

Felix Mendelssohn A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Incidental Music
Performer: Andre Previn; London Symphony Orchestra;
EMI Classics 7243 5 7498128, Tr5
00:04

Felix Mendelssohn A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Incidental Music
Performer: Andre Previn; London Symphony Orchestra;
EMI Classics 7243 5 7498128, Tr6
Carol Ann Duffy

Havisham (Samantha Bond)
00:08

Marc-Antoine Charpentier Choeur des Chasseurs
Performer: Les Arts Florissants; William Christie;
Harmonia Mundi 1901095, Tr16
Ted Hughes

Tales from Ovid (Kenneth Cranham)
00:15

Philip Glass Metamorphosis
Performer: Philip Glass
Sony Classical SK64133, Tr12
Patience Agbabi

About Face (Samantha Bond)
00:21

K. Weill; B. Brecht; M Blitzstein Pirate Jenny
Performer: Lotte Lenya
CBS MK 42637, Tr14
00:25

Leos Janacek String Quartet No.1 After Tolstoy’s ‘Kreutzer Sonata’
Performer: Pavel Haas Quartet
Supraphon SU39222, Tr4
John Donne

The Apparition (Kenneth Cranham)
Emily Dickinson

Mine enemy is growing old (Samantha Bond)
00:31

Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck Pseaume 43: Revenge moy, pre la querelle
Performer: The Choir of Trinity College Cambridge; Richard Marlow
Conifer CDCF205, Tr5
JM Synge

The Curse (Kenneth Cranham)
00:34

Sting & David Hartley Snuff out the Light
Performer: Eartha Kitt
Walt Disney 0122782DNY, Tr3
Robert Browning

The Pied Piper (Samantha Bond)
00:38

John Corigliano Pied Piper Fantasy
Performer: James Galway; Eastman Philharmonia; David Effron
RCA RD86602, Tr7
00:40

Modest Petrovich Mussorgsky Night on the Bare Mountain
Performer: Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra; Mariss Jansons
EMI 5751722, Tr16
00:51

Bob Dylan Masters of War
Performer: Bob Dylan
CBS CD32390, Tr3
00:56

Sergei Sergeyevich Prokofiev Romeo and Juliet, op.64
Performer: Valery Gergiev; Kirov Orchestra
Philips 4647262, Tr8
Charles Dickens

Oliver Twist (Samantha Bond)
01:03

Bohuslav Martinu Memorial to Lidice
Performer: Bamberger Symphoniker; Ingo Metzmacher
EMI CDC5554242, Tr1