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Readings from Tolstoy, Richard Yates, Jane Austen, TS Eliot and Christina Rossetti, and music by Wagner, Rimsky-Korsakov, and Judy Garland depicting spring, Passover and Easter.

Music and readings on the theme of Eastertide, Spring and the Passover including prose by Tolstoy, Richard Yates and Jane Austen, poetry by TS Eliot and Christina Rossetti, and music by Wagner, Rimsky-Korsakov, and Judy Garland. The readers are Samantha Bond, Henry Goodman, Emily Bruni, Sam West, Molly Hanson and Robert Lindsay.

Producer: Nick Holmes

Readings include:

TS Eliot - East Coker
Marge Piercy - The Seder's Order
Michael Chabon - Wonder Boys
Denise Levertov - The Kitchen Maid with the Supper at Emmaus
Oscar Wilde - Easter Day
Leo Tolstoy - Resurrection
Charles Dickens - Pictures from Italy
Eleanor Farjeon - Upon Easter Morning
WB Yeats - Easter 1916
Thomas Hardy - I watched a Blackbird
Jane Austen - Pride and Prejudice
Effie Waller Smith - Easter Lilies
Claude McKay - The Easter Flower Poem
Richard Yates - The Easter Parade
Helen Wallen - An Easter Poem for Crap Mummies

Music includes:
Richard Wagner (1813 - 1883): Parsifal - opera in three acts
Francis Poulenc (1899 - 1963): Stabat mater for soprano, chorus and orchestra
Nicolay Andreyevich Rimsky-Korsakov (1844 - 1908): Russian Easter festival [Svetliy prazdnik] - overture Op.36
James MacMillan (1959): Stabat mater for chorus and orchestra
Richard Wagner (1813 - 1883): Good Friday music [from 'Parsifal'] - concert version [no voices]
Fanny Mendelssohn (1805 - 1847): Sonata in A major (Easter Sonata) for piano
Carlo Gesualdo (c1561 - 1613): Tenebrae responses for Good Friday for 6 voices
Charles Wood (1866 - 1926): This joyful Eastertide - trad. Dutch carol, arr. for chorus
Muriel Herbert (1897 - 1984): Loveliest of trees for voice and piano
George Butterworth (1885 - 1916): 6 Songs from 'A Shropshire lad' for voice and piano
Gregorio Allegri (1582 - 1652): Miserere mei Deus [Psalm 51] for 9 voices
Lennon/Mccartney: Blackbird
Edvard Grieg (1843 - 1907): 6 Norwegian mountain tunes for piano
E J Moeran (1894 - 1950): Songs of springtime for chorus
Gustav Mahler (1860 - 1911): Symphony no. 2 in C minor (Resurrection) for soprano, alto, chorus and orchestra
Judith Bingham (1952): Missa brevis for chorus and organ
Easter Parade Judy Garland and Fred Astaire composed by Irving Berlin

1 hour, 14 minutes

Last on

Sun 9 Apr 2023 17:30
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Timings (where shown) are from the start of the programme in hours and minutes

  • 00:01

    Richard Wagner

    Parsifal, Vorspiel

    Orchestra: Royal Scottish National Orchestra. Conductor: Neeme J盲rvi.
    • Chandos CHSA5077.
    • 1.

  • TS Eliot

    Four Quartets, East Coker, read by Sam West

  • Christina Rossetti

    Good Friday, read by Samantha Bond

  • 00:10

    Francis Poulenc

    Vidit Suum (Stabat Mater)

    Singer: Janice Watson. Choir: 91热爆 Singers. Orchestrator: 91热爆 Philharmonic. Conductor: Yan Pascal Tortelier.
    • Chandos CHAN9341.
    • 12.

  • Marge Piercy

    The Seder聮s Order, read by Emily Bruni

  • 00:15

    Trad.

    T聮filas Tal

    Performer: Itzhak Perlman. Performer: Cantor Yitzchak Meir Helfgot.
    • Sony Classical ?88725420062.
    • 5.

  • Michael Chabon

    Wonder Boys, read by Henry Goodman

  • 00:22

    Fromental Hal茅vy

    La Juive (excerpt from Act II)

    Singer: Jos茅 Carreras. Choir: Ambrosian Singers. Orchestra: Philharmonia Orchestra. Conductor: Antonio de Almeida.
    • Philips 420 190-2.
    • 14.
  • 00:28

    Judith Bingham

    Missa Brevis: The Road to Emmaus (Prelude)

    Performer: Tom Winpenny.
    • Naxos 8.572687.
    • 6.

  • Denise Levertov

    The Kitchen Maid with the Supper at Emmaus, read by Molly Hanson

  • 00:33

    Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov

    Russian Easter Festival Overture

    Orchestra: Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra. Conductor: Igor Markevitch.
    • Philips 4226432.
    • 10.

  • Leo Tolstoy

    Resurrection, read by Sam West

  • Oscar Wilde

    Easter Day, read by Henry Goodman

  • 00:40

    Gregorio Allegri

    Miserere

    Choir: The Sixteen. Conductor: Harry Christophers.
    • Coro COR16014.
    • 3.

  • Charles Dickens

    Pictures from Italy, read by Robert Lindsay

  • 00:48

    George Butterworth

    A Shropshire Lad

    Orchestra: English Sinfonia. Conductor: Neville Dilkes.
    • EMI Classics ?50999-6 80526 2 1.
    • 3.

  • Edward Thomas

    In Memoriam (Easter, 1915), read by Sam West

  • Eleanor Farjeon

    Easter Monday (In Memoriam E.T.), read by Emili Bruni

  • WB Yeats

    Easter 1916, read by Robert Lindsay

  • AE Housman

    Loveliest of Trees (A Shropshire Lad), read by Robert Lindsay

  • Emily Dickinson

    A Little Madness in the Spring, read by Molly Hanson

  • 00:55

    Ernest John Moeran

    Spring, the Sweet Spring (Songs of Springtime)

    Choir: The Finzi Singers. Conductor: Paul Spicer.
    • Chandos CHAN-9182.
    • 3.

  • Thomas Hardy

    I Watched a Blackbird, read by Sam West

  • 00:57

    Paul McCartney

    Blackbird

    Performer: Brad Mehldau Trio.
    • Warner 9362462602.
    • 4.

  • Jane Austen

    Pride and Prejudice, read by Samantha Bond

  • 01:01

    Trad.

    This joyful Eastertide

    Music Arranger: Charles Wood. Choir: St Paul's Cathedral Choir. Conductor: John Scott.
    • Hyperion CDA66916.
    • 10.

  • Effie Waller Smith

    Easter Lilies, read by Emily Bruni

  • 01:04

    Frederick Delius

    Idylle de Printemps

    Orchestra: Orchestra of Opera North. Conductor: David Lloyd-Jones.
    • Naxos 8.553535.
    • 6.

  • Claude McKay

    The Easter Flower, read by Henry Goodman

  • Henrietta Cordelia Ray

    My Easter Dove, read by Emily Bruni

  • Richard Yates

    The Easter Parade, read by Molly Hanson

  • 01:10

    Irving Berlin

    Easter Parade

    Performer: Judy Garland. Performer: Fred Astaire.
    • TCM 836023 2.
    • 31.

  • Helen Wallen

    An Easter Poem, read by Samantha Bond

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