Piano
Louise Jameson and Joshua Richards are the readers in a sequence of poetry, prose and music celebrating the piano, as part of the 91热爆's piano season.
Piano Season on the 91热爆.
Louise Jameson and Joshua Richards with poetry, prose and music celebrating the piano.
The piano inspires a kaleidoscope of musical styles, but packs an emotional punch as well. Join actors Louise Jameson and Joshua Richards for poetry and prose that celebrates love, loss, nostalgia, grim determination and joy, all inspired by the piano. With music to match, of course.
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Timings (where shown) are from the start of the programme in hours and minutes
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00:00
Claude Debussy
Dr Gradus ad Parnassas from Children's Corner.
Performer: Noriko Ogawa (piano)
- BIS CD 1205.
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Donald Justice
The Pupil, read by Louise Jameson
Robert Louis Stevenson
Early in the morning I hear on your piano, read by Joshua Richards
00:02Camille Saint鈥怱a毛ns
Pianistes from Carnival of the Animals
Performer: Jean-Philippe Collard, Michel Beroff (pianos) Performer: Le Trio a Cordes Francaix
- EMI CDC 7475432.
Ogden Nash
Piano Tuner, Untune me that Tune, read by Joshua Richards. Used by permission of Curtis Brown, Ltd. Copyright 漏 1945. All Rights reserved.
00:05Marilyn Monroe and Tom Ewell
Excerpt from "Rachmaninov and Chopsticks" from "The Seven Year Itch".
- Blue Moon BM 4102.
00:07Euphemia Allen, arr. Liberace
Chopsticks
Performer: Liberace (piano) and orchestra
- Columbia 4989522.
Billy Collins
Piano Lessons, read by Louise Jameson
00:11Richard Rodgers
"It might as well be Spring"
Performer: Andre Previn (piano)
- Emarcy 06025 172 983-1 6.
D.H.Lawrence
Piano, read by Joshua Richards.
00:16Frank Bridge
Come to me in my dreams
Performer: Yvonne Kenny (soprano), Caroline Almonte (piano)
- ABC 476 158 1.
John Updike
Player Piano, read by Joshua Richards
00:19Jelly Roll Morton
Midnight Mama
Performer: Piano Roll (Jelly Roll Morton)
- Nonesuch 7559793632.
Randall Jarrell
The Player Piano, read by Louise Jameson
00:25Fr茅d茅ric Chopin
Waltz in A minor op 34.2
Performer: Zoltan Kocsis
- Philips 412 890-2.
00:31John Bull
Chromatic Galliard
Performer: Sophie Yates (virginals)
- Chaconne CHAN 0699.
Shakespeare
Sonnet 128, read by Joshua Richards.
Roy Helton
In Passing, read by Louise Jameson
00:35Ludwig van Beethoven
Fur Elise
Performer: Steven Osborne (piano)
- Hyperion CDA 67879.
Robert Frost
The Investment, read by Joshua Richards.
Siegfried Sassoon
Concert Party (Egyptian Base Camp), read by Louise Jameson
00:38Keith Nichols
Till the sun comes shining through
- KPM 358 CD.
00:40Zo Elliot
There's a long, long trail a-winding.
Performer: Thomas Allen (baritone) Malcolm Martineau (piano)
- Hyperion CDA67374.
Christopher Morley
Hic Sudavit Sed Non Frustra, read by Joshua Richards.
00:44Alan Livingston
Excerpt from "Sparky's Magic Piano".
- EMI CDEMS1466.
00:46Fr茅d茅ric Chopin
Etude in C minor ("Revolutionary"), Opus 10 number 12
Performer: Maurizio Pollini (piano)
- DG 413 794-2.
Jane Austen
Emma (excerpt from Chapter 10), read by Louise Jameson.
00:49Franz Schubert - Deutsche D 972 (Excerpt from Dances 3 and 2)
Performer: Alice Ader (piano)
00:51John Field
Excerpt from Rondo from Sonata no. 3 (H.8`3) (Op.1`3) in C minor,
Performer: M铆ce谩l O'Rourke (piano)
- CHAN 8787.
00:52Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Sonata for piano duet (K.19d) in C major, 3rd movement; Rondeau
Performer: Christoph Eschenbach and Justus Frantz (piano duet)
- DG 435 0422.
Edward Clerihew Bentley
Liszt, read by Louise Jameson
00:56Franz Liszt
Totentanz for piano and orchestra (S.126) (opening)
Performer: Krystian Zimerman (piano) Performer: Boston Symphony Orchestra Performer: Seiji Ozawa (conductor)
- DG 477 9525.
Stuart Isacoff
A Natural History of the Piano (excerpt), read by Joshua Richards.
00:59Blackwell/Hammer
Great Balls of Fire
Performer: Jerry Lee Lewis
- PCD 814.
01:00Johann Sebastian Bach
Two-part inventions, no.13 BWV.784 in A min
Performer: Glenn Gould (piano)
- Sony Classical SMK 52596.
Rachel Cusk
The Bradshaw Variations (excerpt), read by Joshua Richards.
01:04Ludwig van Beethoven
Piano Sonata no.8 in C minor Op.13 'Pathetique' (2nd mvt)
Performer: Ingrid Fliter.Performer: Maria-Joao Pires (piano)
- Apex 8573 89225 2.
Linda Pastan
Practicing, read by Louise Jameson
01:09Scott Joplin
Elite Syncopations
Performer: Alexander Peskanov (piano)
- Naxos 8.559114.
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- Sun 14 Oct 2012 18:3091热爆 Radio 3