 |
|
|
|
|
PROGRAMME INFO |
|
|
|
|
|
Each week the programme examines some of the larger questions of life by taking a spiritual theme and exploring it through Music, prose and poetry.
It brings together the thoughts, ideas and works of the great thinkers, theologians, poets and composers. Something Understood has a multi-faith approach, often bringing in examples from Eastern philosophy as well as the Western Christian world.
|
|
|
|
|
LISTEN AGAIN |
|
|
|
|
PRESENTERS |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
PROGRAMME DETAILS |
|
|
|
A Very Special Relationship
Today's programme is presented by Michelene Wandor.
Music 1: Andantino from 'Old Grandmother's Tales Op. 31' composed by Sergey Prokofiev. From the CD 'Early Piano Works'. Performed by Boyan Vodenicharov. Released on Etcetera. Catalogue number: KTC1122.
Reading 1: What a Grandmother Is from 'For All Occasions: A Selection of Poems, Prose and Party Pieces' edited by Peter Barkworth. Published by Methuen, 1997. ISBN: 041377150X.
Music 2: Di menzinke oysgegebn (My youngest daughter's married - traditional), arranged by Roderick Skeaping. From the CD 'Raisins and Almonds'. Performed by Lucie Skeaping and The Burning Bush: Roderick Skeaping, Robin Jeffrey, Keith Thompson, David Corkhill and Tony Osbourne. Released on Saydisc. Catalogue number: CD-SDL395.
Music 3: 1st Movement from 'String Quartet 'In Gloucestershire'' composed by Herbert Howells. From the CD 'Howells & Delius: String Quartets'. Performed by The Britten Quartet: Peter Manning, Keith Pascoe, Peter Lale and Andrew Shulman. Released on EMI Classics. Catalogue number: 5 55349 2.
Reading 2: Excerpt from the chapter Grannies in the Wainscot from 'Cider With Rosie' by Laurie Lee. Published by Century Publishing Co. Ltd.
Reading 3: Excerpt from the chapter Past and Present from 'Writing Home' by Alan Bennett. Published by Faber & Faber. ISBN: 0571173888.
Music 4: Grandma's Hand's written by Bill Withers. From the CD 'Sampled'. Performed by Bill Withers. Published by EMI Music Publishing Ltd and released on Virgin. Catalogue number: VTDCD355. CD 2
Reading 4: In Memory of My Dear Grandchild Elizabeth Bradstreet, Who Deceased August, 1665, Being a Year and a Half Old by Anne Bradstreet (1612-1672).
Music 5: Oft denk' ich, sie sind nur ausgegangen from 'Kindertotenlieder' composed by Gustav Mahler. From the CD 'Mahler/Sinopoli: The Complete Recordings'. Performed by Bryn Terfel, the Philharmonia Orchestra and conducted by Giuseppe Sinopoli. Released on Deutsche Grammophon. Catalogue number: 4714512. CD 9.
Reading 5: Come On In, the Senility Is Fine by Odgen Nash. Available from PoemHunter.com
Reading 6: Grandfather's Holiday by Rabindranath Tagore. From their poetry collection 'Selected Poems' edited by W. Radice. Published by Penguin Books Ltd. ISBN: 0140183663.
Music 6: Alice Blue Gown composed by McCarthy & Tierney. From the CD 'The McGarrigle Hour'. Performed by Lily Lanken, Anna McGarrigle, Rufus Wainwright, Jane McGarrigle and Joel Zifkin. Published by EMI Fiest Catalogue/Bienstock Publishing ASCAP and released on Hannibal. Catalogue number: HNCD1417.
Reading 7: "Lila at Dawn" by Michelene Wandor.
Music 7: Es ist ein braves Baby from 'Baby Serenade, op. 24' composed by Erich Wolfgang Korngold. From the CD 'Korngold: Orchestral Music'. Performed by Karen Robertson, Tibor Pazmany, Stefan Titigen, Heinz Haunold, the Bruckner Orchester Linz and conducted by Caspar Richter. Published by Schott and released on ASV. Catalogue number: CDDCA1074.
|
|
|
|
|
