Let Us Now Praise Famous Men
Tom Goodman-Hill and Emma Fielding are the readers in a sequence of poetry, prose and music celebrating men - the great and the not so noble.
Let Us Now Praise Famous Men: Tom Goodman-Hill and Emma Fielding are the readers of poems and prose about the celebration of men, the great and the not so noble.
From the Greek and Trojan kings, to the tyrants of the twentieth century via Einstein and the paeans sung by artists to their mentors and heroes. Seamus Heaney mourns Robert Lowell whilst Philip Larkin utters an unalloyed yes to Sidney Bechet.
There's music from Britten, written especially for the cellist Mstislav Rostropovich and an elegy for Philip Sidney by WIlliam Byrd as well as music by John Adams, Mozart and Berlioz.
Producer: Natalie Steed.
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Michael Tippett
Prelude, from King Priam
Performer: London Sinfonetta Chorus, London Sinfonia, David Atherton (conductor)
- CHANDOS CHAN940.
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Untitled
From The Book Ecclesiasticus (Emma Fielding)
00:02John 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)
00:06Hector 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)
00:15Ralph 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)
00:20Richard 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)
00:25Benjamin 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)
00:28Dmitry Shostakovich
II Allegro, from Symphony No. 10
Performer: Philharmonia Orchestra, Simon Rattle (conductor)
- EMI CDC7473502.
Percy Bysshe Shelley
Ozymandias (Emma Fielding)
00:33Philip 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)
00:38George Gershwin
They All Laughed
Performer: Louis Armstrong, Ella Fitzgerald
- Rhino / Wea 081227203320.
F Scott Fitzgerald
from The Great Gatsby (Tom Goodman-Hill)
00:43Loudon Wainwright III
Fame and Wealth
Performer: Loudon Wainwright III
- Music Club B0000075XD.
Oscar Wilde
from The Picture of Dorian Gray (Emma Fielding)
00:47Wolfgang 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)
00:55Wolfgang 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)
00:59Sidney Bechet
Blue Horizon
Performer: Sidney Bechet
- BLUE NOTE CDP7893842.
Philip Larkin
For Sidney Bechet (Tom Goodman Hill)
01:03William Byrd
Come to me, grief, for ever
Performer: Robin Blaze (countertenor), Concordia
- HYPERION CDA67397.
Seamus Heaney
Elegy (Robert Lowell) (Tom Goodman Hill)
01:11Igor Stravinsky
Apotheosis, from Orpheus
Performer: London Symphony Orchestra, Robert Craft (conductor)
- KOCH 372762.
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