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Free Thinking: The Speed of Life

Actors Kim Gerard and Samuel West are joined by an ensemble from Royal Northern Sinfonia live from Radio 3's Free Thinking festival in Gateshead with music and readings exploring this year's theme: The Speed of Life.

1 hour, 15 minutes

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Sun 19 Mar 2017 17:30
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Music Played

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

  • 00:01

    Erik Satie

    Gymnopedie No.1

    Performer: Aldo Ciccolini.
  • 00:02

    Shakespeare

    All the world's a stage

  • 00:05

    Shakespeare

    All the world's a stage

  • 00:06

    Johann Sebastian Bach

    Cello Suite no2:III Courante

  • 00:08

    Yeats

    The Lake Isle of Innisfree

  • 00:09

    Johann Sebastian Bach

    Violin Sonata no.2: I. Grave

  • 00:13

    Plath

    Cinderella

  • 00:14

    Ries

    Perpetuum mobile

  • 00:17

    Irving

    From Rip van Winkle

  • 00:21

    Franz Schubert

    Trio in E flat: II. Andante con moto

  • 00:29

    Auden

    Night Mail

  • 00:31

    Benjamin Britten

    Cello Sonata: V. Moto perpetuo

  • 00:34

    Brothers Grimm

    from Snow White

  • 00:37

    Erik Satie

    Gymnopedie No. 2. Lent et triste

  • 00:39

    Amis

    from Money

  • 00:43

    Maurice Ravel

    Sonata for violin & cello: II. Tres vif

  • 00:46

    H Rider Haggard

    from She

  • 00:50

    Bloch: Nigun

    Nigun

  • 00:56

    Barnes

    from A Sense of an Ending

  • 00:59

    Ives

    Piano Trio: II. TSIAJ ('This Scherzo Is A Joke'): Presto

  • 01:05

    Proust

    from Remembrance of Things Past

  • 01:07

    Erik Satie

    Gymnopedie No. 2. Lent et triste

  • 01:11

    Louis Moreau Gottschalk

    Colliers d'or, Op 6 (Mazurka No 1)

    Performer: Philip Martin.
    • Gottschalk: Piano Music 6: Philip Martin.
    • Hyperion.
    • 6.

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  • Sun 19 Mar 2017 17:30
    麻豆官网首页入口 Radio 3

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