The Photograph

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

• 00:00

  Art Tatum (piano)

  Have You Met Miss Jones?

  Composer: Richard Rodgers and Lorenz Hart

  • Art Tatum: the Complete Pablo Group Masterpieces.
  • Pablo 6PACD-44012(6).

• Christopher Isherwood

  Goodbye to Berlin (excerpt), reader Robert Powell

• 00:00

  Uri Caine Orchestra

  Sidewalk Story: Daisy Bell

  • The Sidewalks of New York.
  • Winter and Winter 910-038 2.
• 00:00

  Richard Chartier and Taylor Deupree

  Specification.Fifteen

  Composer: Richard Chartier and Taylor Deupree

  • Line 027.
• 00:00

  The Matthew Herbert Big Band

  Turning Pages

  • Goodbye Swingtime.
  • Accidentales 05CD-AC.
• 00:00

  György Ligeti

  Artikulation for 4-track tape

  • Warner 2564-696735.

• Robin Robertson

  Four Views from the Camera Obscura, reader Robert Powell

• 00:02

  Johann Sebastian Bach

  Sonata No. 1 in G minor BWV 1001 for violin solo

  Artist: Thomas Zehetmair (violin)

  • APEX 2564-64375-2.

• Margaret Atwood

  Daguerrotype taken in old age, reader Geraldine James

• 00:06

  Otto Clarence Luening

  Low Speed

  Artist: Otto Clarence Luening

  • Ellipsis Arts ELLICD 3670 A-C.

• Nathaniel Hawthorne

  The House of the Seven Gables (excerpt), reader Robert Powell

• 00:08

  Sergei Prokofiev

  Visions fugitives Op.22, arr. Walter Susskind

  Artist: Borodin String Quartet

  • Teldec 945-72.
• 00:09

  Charles Koechlin

  Les Heures persanes for piano 16 pieces, after Loti

  Artist: Rheinland-Pfalz State Philharmonic Orchestra, Leif Segerstam (conductor)

  • Naxos 8.-223504.

• Walt Whitman

  Out from Behind this Mask (To Confront a Portrait), reader Geraldine James

• 00:11

  Philip Glass

  North star - music for the film

  Artist: Philip Glass Ensemble

  • Nonesuch 7559-799469.

• Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Essays and Lectures (excerpt), reader Robert Powell

• 00:16

  Richard Chartier and Taylor Deupree

  Specification.Fifteen

  Composer: Richard Chartier and Taylor Deupree

  • Line 027.

• Fox Talbot

  The Pencil of Nature, reader Geraldine James

• Henry David Thoreau

  Journal (excerpts)

• 00:17

  Matmos

  Schluss recording

  • Matador Records OLE-380-2.

• Paul Auster

  Leviathan (excerpt), reader Robert Powell

• 00:18

  Max Nagl

  Horen

  • Super 8.
  • Rude Noises 002CD.
• 00:18

  Charles Ives

  2 Contemplations K.V.23 for chamber orchestra

  Artist: Boston Symphony Orchestra, Seiji Ozawa (conductor)

  • Deutsche Grammophon 423-243-2.
• 00:25

  Tom Waits

  Watch Her Disappear

  • Alice.
  • Anti 6632-2.

• Thomas Hardy

  The Photograph, reader Robert Powell

• 00:30

  Frédéric Chopin

  3 Waltzes Op.34 for piano

  Artist: Alice Sara Ott (piano)

  • Deutsche Grammophon 477-8095.
• 00:36

  Charles Amirkhanian

  Walking Tune (A Room Music for Percy Grainger)

  Artist: Charles Amirkhanian

  • Walking Tune.
  • Starkkland ST-206.

• Seamus Heaney

  The Walk, reader Geraldine James

• 00:37

  Ali Farka Toure & Toumani Diabate

  Kala

  • In the Heart of the Moon.
  • World Circuit WCD-072.

• Philip Larkin

  Lines on a Young Lady's Photograph Album, read by the author

• 00:45

  Art Tatum (piano)

  Sweet Lorraine

  Composer: Burwell and Parish

  • Art Tatum 1934 - 1940.
  • CLASSICS, CLASSICS-560.

• sound recording by Peter Cusack

  Cuckoo and Radiometer

• Henry David Thoreau

  Journal (excerpts)

• 00:48

  Mouse on Mars

  Auto Orchestra

  • Instrumentals.
  • Domino WIGCD88P.

• Leonard Cohen

  The Photograph, reader Robert Powell

• 00:51

  György Ligeti

  Artikulation for 4-track tape

  • Warner 2564-696735.

• W. H. Auden

  I Am Not a Camera, reader Geraldine James

• Raymond Carver

  Photograph of My Father in His Twenty-Second Year, reader Robert Powell

• 00:54

  Bill Frisell

  Lonely Man

  Composer: Bill Frisell

  • Disfarmer.
  • Nonesuch 7559-799308.

• William Carlos Williams

  The Red Wheelbarrow, reader Geraldine James

• John Updike

  Camera, reader Robert Powell

• 00:56

  Robert Schumann

  Quartet in E flat major Op.47 for piano and strings

  Artist: Samuel Rhodes (piano), Beaux Arts Trio

  • Philips 420-791 2.
• 00:59

  Tod Dockstader

  Two Fragments from Apocalypse: First Fragment

  Artist: Tod Dockstader

  • Apocalypse.
  • Starkland ST-202.

• Philip Gross

  Bead, reader Geraldine James

• 00:59

  Tod Dockstader

  Traveling Music

  Artist: Tod Dockstader

  • Apocalypse.
  • Starkland ST-202.

• Herman Melville

  On the Photograph of an American Corps Commander, reader Robert Powell

• 01:02

  Leos Janáček

  Sinfonietta

  Artist: Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra, Charles Mackerras (conductor)

  • Decca 448-255-2.
• 01:07

  John Levack Drever (sound engineeer)

  Manaton, early morning, April 2002

  • Sounding Dartmoor.
  • I-DAT SPACEX.

• Friedrich Nietsche

  quotation, reader Geraldine James

• Carol Ann Duffy

  War Photographer, reader Geraldine James

• 01:09

  Richard Chartier and Taylor Deupree

  Specification.Fifteen

  Composer: Richard Chartier and Taylor Deupree

  • Line 027.
• 01:09

  Field Recording by Chris Watson

  Vatnajokull

  • Weather Report.
  • Touch TO-47.
• 01:09

  Matmos

  Schluss recording

  • Matador Records OLE-380-2.

• Ted Hughes

  Remains of Elmet, reader Geraldine James

• Marcel Proust

  The Remembrance of Things Past - Swann's Way (excerpt), reader Robert Powell

• 01:11

  Howard Skempton

  Quavers 5 for piano [1984]

  Artist: John Tilbury (piano)

  • Sony Classical SK-66482.

• Margaret Atwood

  This is a Photograph of Me, reader Geraldine James