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

• 00:00

  Sergey Prokofiev

  Adagio Egyptian Nights, Symphonic Suite

  Performer: Russian State Symphony Orchestra, cond. Valeri Polyansky

  • CHANDOS CHAN10056.

• William Shakespeare

  From Antony and Cleopatra, Sian Thomas

• 00:01

  George Frideric Handel

  Julius Caeser Act 3 sc 2

  Performer: ENO Orchestra and Chorus, Cond Sir Charles Mackerras, Soprano Valerie Masterson

  • CHANDOS CHAN3019.

• TS Eliot

  From The Wasteland, A Game of Chess, Oliver Dimsdale

• 00:10

  Dvorak / Fritz Kreisler

  Songs My Mother Taught Me

  Performer: Cello, Yo Yo Ma

  • CBS CD44796.
• 00:13

  N/A

  Sounds of the Night

  Performer: Nightingale

  • NSACD 77.
• 00:13

  Igor Stravinsky

  The Nightingale

  Performer: Â鶹¹ÙÍøÊ×Ò³Èë¿Ú Singers, Simon Joly, Â鶹¹ÙÍøÊ×Ò³Èë¿Ú Symphony Orchestra, Pierre Boulez

  • ERATO 2292456272.

• Matthew Arnold

  Philomela, Oliver Dimsdale

• 00:18

  Bernard Herrmann

  Medea, Jason And The Argonauts Soundtrack

  Performer: Sinfonia of London - Conducted by Bruce Broughton

  • Intrada CD MAF7083.
• 00:20

  Richard Strauss

  Ariadne auf Naxos

  Performer: Wiener Philharmoniker, Cond James Levine

  • DEUTSCHE GRAMOPHON 4192252.

• Derek Mahon

  Ariadne on Naxos, Sian Thomas

• 00:22

  J Lavor, D Carter, R Seres

  Gloomy Sunday

  Performer: Iva Bittova – vocals

  • SONY CLASSICAL SK61870.
• 00:28

  Jean Sibelius

  The Dryad

  Performer: Scottish National Orchestra, cond Sir Alexander Gibbon

  • CHANDOS CHAN6524.

• Alfred, Lord Tennyson

  From A Dream of Fair Women, Oliver Dimsdale

• Alfred, Lord Tennyson

  From A Dream of Fair Women, Sian Thomas

• 00:35

  Christoph Willibald Gluck

  Iphigenie en Tauride

  Performer: Orchestra del Teatro alla Scala, cond. Riccardo Muti, soloist Carol Vaness

  • SONY CLASSICAL S2K52492.

• Carol Ann Duffy,

  Penelope, Sian Thomas

• 00:42

  B L Ozen

  I'm A Good Woman

  Performer: Barbara Lynn

  • VIRGIN B000086EQM.
  • 16.

• John Donne

  Song, Oliver Dimsdale

• Robert Herrick

  Whenas in Silks My Julia Goes, Sian Thomas

• 00:46

  Christoph Willibald Gluck

  Alceste

  Performer: Monteverdi Choir, English Baroque soloists, cond. John Eliot Gardiner

  • PHILIPS 4702932.

• William Thackeray

  Vanity Fair, Sian Thomas

• 00:50

  Paul Mealor

  Now Sleeps the Crimson Petal

  Performer: Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Tenebrae, Cond Nigel Short

  • Decca Classics B005FOW9H8.
• 00:53

  Béla Bartók

  Music for Strings Percussion and Celesta, Adagio

  Performer: Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Cond. James Levine,

  • DEUTSCH GRAMOPHON 4297472.

• Robert Browning

  Porphyria’s Lover, Oliver Dimsdale

• 01:01

  John Dowland

  In Darkness Let Me Dwell

  Performer: Andreas Scholl

  • DECCA 4669172DEC.

• Carol Ann Duffy

  Demeter, Sian Thomas

• 01:06

  Johannes Brahms

  Ein Deutches Requiem, V. Ihr habt nun Traurigkeit

  Performer: Orchestra: Philharmonia Orchestra and Chorus, Elisabeth Schwarzkopf, Cond. Otto Klemperer

  • EMI Classics B00000GCA3.