Truth
'The truth is rarely pure and never simple.' Morfydd Clark and Neil Dudgeon read a selection of prose and poems mixed with music on a theme inspired by the 2019 National Poetry Day.
"The truth is rarely pure and never simple" Morfydd Clark and Neil Dudgeon with a selection of prose and poems mixed with music on a theme inspired by National Poetry Day 2019, which is crowd-sourcing poems that tell the truth about something that matters to you, or deliver a home truth.
National Poetry Day is on October 3rd.
Producer: Torquil MacLeod
Readings:
Emily Dickinson – Tell all the Truth, but tell it slant
John Keats – Ode on a Grecian Urn
Stephen Crane – XXVIII [Truth, said a traveller]
Thomas Hardy – Tess of the d’Urbervilles
Hans Christian Andersen – The Emperor’s New Clothes
WB Yeats – To A Friend Whose Work Has Come To Nothing
Selima Hill – Why I Left You
Vernon Scannell – Where Shall We Go?
Hilaire Belloc – Matilda
Philip Gross – Severn Song
Charles Bukowski – Confession
Meena Alexander – Diagnosis
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Timings (where shown) are from the start of the programme in hours and minutes
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00:00
Joel Cohen
Motet: Veritas Arpie
Performer: Laurie Monahan (mezzo-soprano), Shira Kammen (rebec).- ERATO 4509963922.
- Tr13.
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Emily Dickinson
Tell all the Truth, but tell it slant, read by Morfydd Clark
00:01Manuel de Falla
El pan de Ronda que sabe a verdad
Performer: Bernarda Fink (mezzo-soprano), Anthony Spiri (piano).- HARMONIA MUNDI HMC902133.
- Tr28.
John Keats
Ode on a Grecian Urn, read by Neil Dudgeon
00:03Arvo Pärt
Cantus in memory of Benjamin Britten
Performer: Staatsorchester Stuttgart, Dennis Russell Davies (conductor).- ECM 817 764-2.
- Tr2.
Stephen Crane
XXVIII [Truth, said a traveller], read by Morfydd Clark
00:09Dave Brubeck
Truth
Composer: Robert Penn Warren. Ensemble: Pacific Mozart Ensemble.- SONO LUMINUS DSL92160.
- Tr19.
Thomas Hardy
Tess of the dÂ’Urbervilles, read by Neil Dudgeon
00:13Darby Slick
Somebody To Love
Performer: Jefferson Airplane.- Sony Music 8697 48240 2.
- Tr13.
00:13Lowman Pauling
Tell The Truth
Performer: Ray Charles.- Rhino Records (2) R2 72859.
- CD1 Tr22.
Hans Christian Andersen (translated by Jean Hersholt)
The EmperorÂ’s New Clothes, read by Morfydd Clark
00:19Giuseppe Verdi
O Signor, di Fiandra arrivo
Singer: Sherrill Milnes. Singer: Ruggero Raimondi. Orchestra: Orchestra of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden. Conductor: Carlo Maria Giulini.- EMI CDS7477018.
- CD2 Tr4.
00:22Giuseppe Verdi
QuestÂ’e la pace che voi date al mondo?
Singer: Sherrill Milnes. Singer: Ruggero Raimondi. Orchestra: Orchestra of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden. Conductor: Carlo Maria Giulini.- EMI CDS7477018.
- CD2 Tr5.
W. B. Yeats
To A Friend Whose Work Has Come To Nothing, read by Neil Dudgeon
00:25Joni Mitchell
Hejira
Performer: Joni Mitchell.- Nonesuch ?79817-2.
- CD2 Tr5.
Selima Hill
Why I Left You, read by Morfydd Clark
Vernon Scannell
Where Shall We Go? read by Neil Dudgeon
00:37Femi Kuti
Truth Don' Die
- Wrasse Records WRASS 136.
- Tr1.
Hilaire Belloc
Matilda, read by Morfydd Clark
00:45Ludwig van Beethoven
Diabelli Variations – Var. 31: Largo, molto espressivo
Performer: Igor Levit.- SONY 8887506092.
- CD2 Tr32.
00:50Howard Skempton
Lento
Orchestra: 91Èȱ¬ Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Mark Wigglesworth.- NMC NMCD032.
- Tr1.
Philip Gross
Severn Song, read by Neil Dudgeon
Alfred Lord Tennyson
The Grandmother, read by Morfydd Clark
00:59Ralph Vaughan Williams
Valiant-for-truth
Choir: Choir of Clare College, Cambridge. Conductor: Timothy Brown.- NAXOS 8572465.
- Tr2.
Charles Bukowski
Confession, read by Neil Dudgeon
01:06Brian Wilson
Till I Die
Performer: The Beach Boys.- Brother Records (3) UICY-25601.
- Tr9.
Meena Alexander
Diagnosis, read by Morfydd Clark
01:09John Tavener
New Jerusalem – Upanishad Hymn
Singer: Patricia Rozario. Singer: Adrian Peacock. Singer: Adrian Peacock. Singer: Jeremy Birchall. Singer: Jeremy Birchall. Choir: The Choir of Temple Church. Choir: The Choir of Temple Church. Choir: The Choir of Temple Church. Orchestra: English Chamber Orchestra. Orchestra: English Chamber Orchestra. Orchestra: English Chamber Orchestra. Conductor: Stephen Layton. Conductor: Stephen Layton. Conductor: Stephen Layton. Conductor: Stephen Layton.- RCA 82876661542.
- CD2 Tr17.
Broadcasts
- Sun 22 Sep 2019 17:3091Èȱ¬ Radio 3
- Mon 2 Jan 2023 18:1591Èȱ¬ Radio 3