Words and Music

I came across this show on Radio 3 when I was driving back from Wales this afternoon.

Sometimes I am theoretically unsympathetic to the notion of public service broadcasting but you can't really argue with the value of:MUSIC AND FEATURED ITEMS

Timings are shown from the start of the programme in hours and minutes.

1. 00:00 

   Alwyn — Elizabethan Dances, Moderato e ritmico

   Performer: LSO, conducted by Richard Hickox

   Chandos CHAN8902, 4
2. 00:01 

   Shakespeare

   Henry V, Prologue. Samantha Bond.
3. 00:02 

   Alwyn — Elizabethan Dances, Moderato e ritmico

   Performer: LSO, conducted by Richard Hickox

   Chandos CHAN8902, 4
4. 00:04 

   T.S Eliot

   Gus the Theatre Cat. Henry Goodman
5. 00:07 

   Irving Berlin — There’s No Business Like Show Business

   Performer: Original cast and chorus of Annie Get Your Gun

   MCA Classics MCAD-10047, 12
6. 00:10 

   Joseph Haydn — Sonata in G Major, prestissimo Hob. XVI:39

   Performer: Malcolm Bilson

   Claves 50-2501, 9
7. 00:11 

   Jane Austen

   Mansfield Park. Samantha Bond
8. 00:13 

   Sir William Walton — As You Like It, Prelude

   Performer: The Academy of St Martin in the Fields, conducted by Sir Neville Marriner

   Chandos CHAN7041, 1
9. 00:15 

   Shakespeare

   As You Like It, act two, scene seven. Henry Goodman.
10. 00:17 

    Orlando Gibbons — What is Our Life

    Performer: The Gesualdo Consort

    Cantoris CRCD6017, 41
11. 00:21 

    Bertolt Brecht

    Everyday Theatre. Samantha Bond.
12. 00:23 

    Kurt Weill — Mac the Knife

    Performer: Lotte Lenya, orchestra conducted by Roger Bean

    Sony Classical MHK63222, 10
13. 00:26 

    John Hall Wheelock

    Vaudeville. Henry Goodman.
14. 00:27 

    Richard Strauss — Dance of the Seven Veils from Salome

    Performer: Vienna Philharmonic, conducted by Christoph Von Dohnanyi

    Decca 444178-2, CD 2, Tr.3
15. 00:32 

    Gaston Leroux

    Phantom of the Opera. Samantha Bond.
16. 00:34 

    Hector Berlioz — Symphonie Fantastique, Finale

    Performer: LSO, conducted by Pierre Boulez

    Sony Classical SM3K64103, 8
17. 00:35 

    Henry Purcell — If love’s a sweet passion from The Fairy Queen

    Performer: The Parley of Instruments, directed by Roy Goodman

    Hyperion CDA67001/3, CD 1, Tr.31
18. 00:37 

    Shakespeare

    Hamlet. Act two, scene two. Henry Goodman.
19. 00:38 

    Dmitri Shostakovich — Hamlet, Night Watch

    Performer: Rustem Hayroudinoff

    Chandos CHAN9907, 26
20. 00:40 

    Stephen Sondheim — Broadway Baby

    Performer: Elaine Stritch, conducted by Rob Bowman

    DRG 12994, 8
21. 00:44 

    Dorothy Parker

    Actresses: A Hate Song. Samantha Bond.
22. 00:47 

    Thomas Hardy

    To An Actress. Henry Goodman.
23. 00:48 

    Giacomo Puccini — Vissi d’arte from Tosca

    Performer: Maria Callas, Orchestre de la Sociétés Concerts du Conservatoire

    EMI CMS7699742, CD, Tr. 7
24. 00:51 

    W.H Henley

    The Ballade of Dead Actors. Samantha Bond.
25. 00:52 

    Aaron Copland — Quiet City

    Performer: New York Philharmonic, conducted by Leonard Bernstein

    DG 419170-2, 5
26. 00:52 

    Sara Teasdale

    Broadway. Henry Goodman.
27. 00:56 

    Ella Wheeler Wilcox

    The Old Stage Queen. Samantha Bond.
28. 00:59 

    Stephen Sondheim — Send in the Clowns from A Little Night Music

    Performer: Judi Dench, Orchestra of The Royal National Theatre, conducted by Jo Stewart

    Tring TRING001, 18
29. 01:03 

    Oscar Wilde

    The Picture of Dorian Gray. Henry Goodman.
30. 01:06 

    Ruggero Leoncavallo — Vesti la giuba from Pagliacci

    Performer: Placido Domingo, Orchestra of La Scala Milan conducted by Georges Prêtre

    Phlips 411484-2, 16
31. 01:08 

    Claude Debussy — Syrinx

    Performer: Philippa Davies

    Virgin Classics VC791148-2
32. 01:09 

    Shakespeare

    The Tempest. Act four, scene one. Samantha Bond.
33. 01:10 

    Ralph Vaughan Williams — Full fathom five from Three Shakespeare Songs

    Performer: Holst Singers, conducted by Stephen Layton

    Hyperion CDA66777, 2