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

• 00:00

  Michael Tippett

  Prelude, from King Priam

  Performer: London Sinfonetta Chorus, London Sinfonia, David Atherton (conductor)

  • CHANDOS CHAN940.

• Untitled

  From The Book Ecclesiasticus (Emma Fielding)

• 00:02

  John Adams

  The Laboratory, from Doctor Atomic Symphony

  Performer: Saint Louis Symphony Orchestra, David Robertson (conductor)

  • NONESUCH 7559799328.

• Christopher Logue

  from All Day Permanent Red (reader Emma Fielding)

• 00:06

  Hector Berlioz

  Pantomime, Act 1, no 6, Les Troyens

  Performer: London Symphony Orchestra, Petra Lang, London Symphony Chorus, Colin Davis (conductor)

  • LSO LIVE LSO0100.

• William Shakespeare

  from Richard II, (reader Tom Goodman-Hill)

• Michael Longley

  Ceasefire (reader Emma Fielding)

• 00:15

  Ralph Vaughan Williams

  Is My Team Ploughing, from On Wenlock Edge (A. E. Housman)

  Performer: Ian Bostridge (tenor), London Philharmonic Orchestra, Bernard Haitink (conductor)

  • EMI CDC5567622.

• WB Yeats

  An Irish Airman Foresees His Death (reader Tom Goodman-Hill)

• 00:20

  Richard Strauss

  Der Held (The Hero), from Ein Heldenleben

  Performer: Berliner Philharmoniker, Simon Rattle (conductor)

  • EMI 3393392.

• W H Auden

  Epitaph on a Tyrant (reader Emma Fielding)

• 00:25

  Benjamin Britten

  Lamento: Lento rubato, Cello Suite No 1

  Performer: Mstislav Rostropovich

  • LONDON 4218592.

• Osip Mandelstam (trans. W. S. Merwin )

  The Stalin Epigram (reader Tom Goodman-Hill)

• 00:28

  Dmitry Shostakovich

  II Allegro, from Symphony No. 10

  Performer: Philharmonia Orchestra, Simon Rattle (conductor)

  • EMI CDC7473502.

• Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Ozymandias (Emma Fielding)

• 00:33

  Philip Glass

  Knee Play 1, from Einstein on the Beach

  Performer: The Philip Glass Ensemble, Michael Riesman (conductor)

  • CBSM4K38875.

• Emily Dickinson

  Fame is a fickle food (Emma Fielding)

• 00:38

  George Gershwin

  They All Laughed

  Performer: Louis Armstrong, Ella Fitzgerald

  • Rhino / Wea 081227203320.

• F Scott Fitzgerald

  from The Great Gatsby (Tom Goodman-Hill)

• 00:43

  Loudon Wainwright III

  Fame and Wealth

  Performer: Loudon Wainwright III

  • Music Club B0000075XD.

• Oscar Wilde

  from The Picture of Dorian Gray (Emma Fielding)

• 00:47

  Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

  II Adagio, String Quartet In G Major

  Performer: Weller Quartet

  • Decca Original Masters 475679-6.

• Casanova

  extract from the Memoirs (Tom Goodman Hill)

• 00:55

  Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

  Duettino L脿 ci darem la mano from Don Giovanni

  Performer: Philharmonia Orchestra &Chorus, Roberto Benaglio, Carlo Maria Giulini, Eberhard Wachter, Graziella Sciutti

  • EMI CDS7472608.

• Carol Ann Duffy

  Anne Hathaway (Emma Fielding)

• 00:59

  Sidney Bechet

  Blue Horizon

  Performer: Sidney Bechet

  • BLUE NOTE CDP7893842.

• Philip Larkin

  For Sidney Bechet (Tom Goodman Hill)

• 01:03

  William Byrd

  Come to me, grief, for ever

  Performer: Robin Blaze (countertenor), Concordia

  • HYPERION CDA67397.

• Seamus Heaney

  Elegy (Robert Lowell) (Tom Goodman Hill)

• 01:11

  Igor Stravinsky

  Apotheosis, from Orpheus

  Performer: London Symphony Orchestra, Robert Craft (conductor)

  • KOCH 372762.