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Hallelujah!

Words and Music

Texts and music celebrating the many facets of joy, with readings from Jane Horrocks and Rory Kinnear. Includes Hardy and Schiller, plus Handel, Mozart and Judy Garland.

Jane Horrocks and Rory Kinnear are the readers in this sequence of music, poetry and prose celebrating the many facets of joy; with words from Thomas Hardy, Rabindranath Tagore, Friedrich Schiller among others, and music ranging from Handel to Leonard Cohen, and from Mozart to Randall Thompson to Judy Garland.

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1 hour, 15 minutes

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Fri 23 Dec 2011 17:00

BBC Radio 3

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00:00

George Frideric Handel

Alleluja (from 'O qualis de coelo sonus')

Performer: Emma Kirkby (soprano) / London Baroque
Psalm 150

Read by Jane Horrocks
00:02

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Alleluia (from 'Exsultate jubilate')

Performer: Carolyn Sampson (soprano) / King’s Consort / Robert King
Rabindranath Tagore

Joy, read by Jane Horrocks
00:05

Ted Koehler & Harold Arlen

Get Happy

Performer: Judy Garland / Orchestra conducted by Johnny Green
Friedrich Schiller

Ode to Joy (excerpt), read by Rory Kinnear
00:09

Thomas Weelkes

Alleluia, I heard a voice

Performer: Winchester Cathedral Choir / David Hill
WH Davies

Songs of Joy, read by Rory Kinnear
00:13

Richard Rodgers & Lorenz Hart - Hallelujah, I'm a bum

Performer: Al Jolson (voice) / Guy Lombardi and his Royal Canadians
Gerard Manley Hopkins

Pied Beauty, read by Jane Horrocks
00:16

Ned Rorem

Alleluia

Performer: Susan Graham (soprano) / Malcolm Martineau (piano)
William Wordsworth

Daffodils, read by Rory Kinnear
00:20

Giovanni Gabrieli

In ecclesiis

Performer: Gabrieli Consort & Players / Paul McCreesh
John Milton

At a Solemn Music, read by Rory Kinnear
00:29

Henry Purcell

Evening Hymn

Performer: Carolyn Sampson (soprano) / Elizabeth Kenny (theorbo)
Ted Hughes

Swifts (excerpt), read by Jane Horrocks
00:35

Pérotin

Alleluia posui adiutorium

Performer: Hilliard Ensemble
William Blake

Eternity, read by Rory Kinnear
00:42

Igor Stravinsky

Symphony of Psalms (3rd movement)

Performer: Berlin Philharmonic / Berlin Radio Chorus / Pierre Boulez
00:53

Leonard Cohen

Hallelujah

Performer: Jeff Buckley (voice and guitar)
Percy Bysshe Shelley

Invocation, read by Rory Kinnear
01:02

Randall Thompson

Alleluia

Performer: Harvard University Choir / Murray Forbes Somerville
Siegfried Sassoon

Everyone Sang, read by Rory Kinnear
01:09

George Frideric Handel

Hallelujah (from 'Messiah')

Performer: Gabrieli Consort & Players / Paul McCreesh