Ancient Greece
Actors Tim McMullan and Clare Higgins read poems and prose extracts by Shakespeare, Keats, Auden and 91热爆r etc on the subject of Ancient Greece. With music by Schubert, Tippett, Bernstein, Stravinsky and Ravel
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Clips
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Agathon鈥檚 Speech (audio)
Duration: 01:42
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Ulysses by Tennyson (audio)
Duration: 04:33
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C P Cavafy - 'Ithaka' (audio)
Duration: 02:11
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The Odyssey: opening lines (audio)
Duration: 02:18
Music Played
Timings (where shown) are from the start of the programme in hours and minutes
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00:00
Maurice Ravel
Lever du jour from Daphnis et Chloe, Lever du jour from Daphnis et Chloe
Performer: Boston Symphony Orchestra, Claudio Abbado
- DG4594392.
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Keats
On first looking into Chapman鈥檚 91热爆r (CH)
91热爆r (trans by George Chapman)
Beg of The Odyssey (CH)
00:06MAW
Odyssey
Performer: CBSO, Simon Rattle
- EMI 7542772.
Cavafy (trans Edmund Keeley & Philip Sherrard)
Ithaka (CH)
00:11Henri Duparc
L'invitation au voyage
Performer: Barbara Hendricks, soprano, Orchestre de l鈥橭pera de Lyon, John Eliot Gardiner
- EMI7496892.
Tennyson
Ulysses (TM)
00:20Jacques Offenbach
Couplets des Rois from La belle Helene
Performer: Various soloists, Les Musiciens du Louvre, Marc Minkowski
- Virgin45477.
Marlowe
Faust鈥檚 speech from Dr Faustus (TM)
00:24Richard Strauss
Zweite Brautnacht from Die Agyptische Helene
Performer: Deborah Voigt, Helen, American Symphony Orchestra, Leon Botstein
- Telarc80605.
Shakespeare
Intro to Troilus and Cressida (CH)
00:30Tippett
Start of King Priam ("War! War!")
Performer: London Sinfonietta, London Sinfonietta Chorus, David Atherton
- Chandos9406.
W. H. Auden
The Shield of Achilles (TM)
00:35Tippett
O rich-soiled land from King Priam
Performer: Robert Tear, Achilles, Timothy Walker, guitar, David Atherton
- Chandos9406.
Cavafy (trans Edmund Keeley & Philip Sherrard)
The Horses of Achilles (CH)
00:40Leonard Bernstein
Agathon from Serenade (after Plato's Symposium)
Performer: Gidon Kremer, violin, Israel Philharmonic, Leonard Bernstein
- DG447947.
Plato (trans Benjamin Jowett)
Agathon鈥檚 speech from the Symposium (TM)
Racine (trans by Robert Bruce Boswell)
from Phaedra (CH)
00:50Benjamin Britten
Start of Phaedra to "I want your sword's spasmodic final inch"
Performer: Ann Murray, mezzo, ECO, Steuart Bedford
- Collins70372.
Goethe (trans Stephen Plunkett)
Ganymede (CH)
00:57Schubert
Ganymede
Performer: Ian Bostridge, tenor, Julius Drake, piano
- EMI56347.
Yeats
Leda and the Swan (TM)
01:02Igor Stravinsky
Prologue to Apollon Musagete
Performer: Sinfonietta de Montreal, Charles Dutoit
- Decca440327.
Matthew Arnold
Apollo Musagetes (TM)
01:09Richard Strauss
End of An dem Baum Daphne
Performer: 91热爆 Singers, Choristers of Kings College, Cambridge, Stephen Cleobury
- Collins14952.
Broadcasts
- Sun 28 Dec 2008 22:1591热爆 Radio 3
- Sun 24 Oct 2010 22:1591热爆 Radio 3