The Opium of the People

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

• Friedrich Nietzsche

  Also sprach Zarathustra, Prologue, reader John Sessions

• 00:00

  Richard Strauss

  Also sprach Zarathustra, Op. 30

  Performer: Philadelphia Orchestra, Wolfgang Sawallisch (conductor)

  • EMI 5 56364 2 Tr1.

• Friedrich Nietzsche

  Also sprach Zarathustra, Backworldsmen, reader John Sessions

• 00:05

  Fonseca

  Lagartija azul

  Composer: Fonseca

  • Manteca MANTDCD244 CD2 Tr2.

• Fulke Greville

  Chorus Sacerdotum from Mustapha, reader Claire Harry

• 00:09

  William Byrd

  Fantasia á 6 No. 2

  Performer: Phantasm

  • Simax PSC 1143 Tr1.
• 00:14

  Jean Sibelius

  Symphony No. 5 in E flat major, Op. 82, 3rd movement (excerpt)

  Performer: London Symphony Orchestra, Sir Colin Davis (conductor)

  • RCA 09026 61963 2 Tr6.

• Karl Marx

  Contribution to the Critique of Hegel’s Philosophy of Right, reader John Sessions

• Emily Dickinson

  This World is not Conclusion, reader Claire Harry

• 00:23

  Aaron Copland

  Appalachian Spring Suite (excerpt)

  Performer: City of London Sinfonia, Richard Hickox (conductor)

  • Virgin 5 61702 2 Tr6.
• 00:26

  Johann Sebastian Bach

  Goldberg Variations, BWV 988, Variations 1 & 2

  Performer: Julian Rachlin (violin), Nobuko Imai (viola), Mischa Maisky (cello)

  • DG 477 637 8 Tr2-3.

• Charles Darwin

  On the Origins of Species (6th Edition, excerpt), reader John Sessions

• Robert Frost

  Design, reader Claire Harry

• 00:29

  Leos Janáček

  The Cunning Little Vixen, orchestral suite (excerpt)

  Performer: Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra, Sir Charles Mackerras (conductor)

  • Decca 475 867 CD2 Tr10.

• Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Hymn to Intellectual Beauty, reader John Sessions

• 00:34

  Leos Janáček

  The Cunning Little Vixen, orchestral suite (excerpt)

  Performer: Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra, Sir Charles Mackerras (conductor)

  • Decca 475 867 CD2 Tr10.

• Wallace Stevens

  High-Toned Old Christian Woman, reader Claire Harry

• 00:43

  Charles Trenet

  Y'a de la joie

  Performer: Charles Trenet and His Orchestra

  • ASV AJA 5166 Tr2.

• Lucretius

  De Rerum Naturae, Book 5 (excerpt), reader John Sessions

• 00:47

  Ludwig van Beethoven

  String Quartet No. 13 in B flat major, Op. 130, 5th movement

  Performer: Busch Quartet

  • EMI 5 09655 2 CD2 Tr9.

• Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  Fears in Solitude (excerpt), reader Claire Harry

• 00:56

  Carl Nielsen

  Helios Overture (excerpt)

  Performer: Danish National Radio Symphony Orchestra, Gennady Rozhdestvensky (conductor)

  • Chandos CHAN 9287 Tr1.
• 00:59

  Philip Glass

  Anima Mundo, The Garden (excerpt)

  Performer: Choir and Orchestra, Michael Riesman (conductor)

  • Elektra Nonesuch 7559 79329 2 Tr3.

• attrib. Laozi

  Tao Te Ching, reader John Sessions

• Anon

  Upanishad (excerpt), reader John Sessions

• Anon

  Bhagavad Gita (excerpt), reader John Sessions

• 01:03

  C. H. Lloyd

  Psalm 137: By the waters of Babylon we sat down and wept

  Performer: Westminster Abbey Choir, Andrew Lumsden (organ), Martin Neary (conductor)

  • Virgin 7243 4 45036 2 Tr15.

• Philip Larkin

  Church Going, reader Claire Harry

• William Wordsworth

  Tintern Abbey (excerpt), reader John Sessions

• 01:10

  Gustav Mahler

  Symphony No. 3 in D minor, Langsam (excerpt)

  Performer: Royal Scottish Orchestra, Neeme Järvi (conductor)

  • Chandos 9117 CD2 Tr3.

• D. H. Lawrence

  The Ship of Death (excerpt), reader Claire Harry