Book of Hours
Amanda Root and Rory Kinnear take an imaginative journey around the clock over the course of twenty four hours with poems by John Clare, Byron, Louis MacNeice and Carol Ann Duffy and music by Samuel Barber, Schoenberg, Debussy, Ravel and Elvis Costello.
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Timings (where shown) are from the start of the programme in hours and minutes
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00:00
Uuno Klami
Foggy Morning
Performers: Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Leif Segerstam - conductor
- FINLANDIA 8573856042.
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William Wordsworth
Upon Westminster Bridge read by Amanda Root
00:01Edvard Grieg
Morning - from Peer Gynt
Performers: Estonian National Symphony Orchestra, Paavo Jarvi - conductor
- VIRGIN CLASSICS 5457222.
John Donne
The Sunne Rising read by Rory Kinnear
00:07Aulis Sallinen
Sunrise Serenade, op 63
Performer: Jouko Harjanne – trumpet, Aki Valimaki – trumpet, Avanti Chamber Orchestra
- FINLANDIA 8573819722.
Mark Doty
Long Point Light read by Amanda Root
00:15James Rhodes
Nuages - Nocturnes
Performer: The Cleveland Orchestra, Vladimir Ashkenazy - conductor
- ELOQUENCE 467 428-2.
Louis Macneice
Sunday Morning read by Rory Kinnear
00:22George Butterworth
Bredon Hill
Performers: Bryn Terfel – baritone, Malcolm Martineau - piano
- DEUTSCHE GRAMMOPHON 4459462.
00:27Cole Porter
Miss Otis Regrets
Performer: Ella Fitzgerald
- VERVE 821 989-2.
John Clare
Schoolboys in Winter read by Rory Kinnear
00:31Peter Maxwell Davies
³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ - Seven Songs ³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ
Performers: The Choir of St Mary's Music School, Scottish Chamber Orchestra, Sir Peter Maxwell Davies - conductor/pianist
- A Celebration of Scotland.
- UNICORN DKPCD9070.
Carol Ann Duffy
Warming Her Pearls read by Amanda Root
00:34James Rhodes
Nuit d'Etoiles
Performers: Veronique Gens – soprano, Roger Vignoles - piano
- VIRGIN CLASSICS VC5453602.
00:37Manuel de Falla
En el Generalife - Nights in the Gardens of Spain
Performer: Alicia de Larrocha – piano, London Philharmonic Orchestra, Rafael Fruhbeck de Burgos
- DECCA 410 289-2.
Charles Tomlinson
The Journey read by Rory Kinnear
Philip Larkin
Friday Night in the Royal Station Hotel read by Amanda Root
00:48Samuel Barber
Solitary Hotel
Performer: Thomas Allen – Baritone, Endellion String Quartet, Roger Vignoles - piano
- VIRGIN CLASSICS 7243 5 45033 2 0.
T.S. Eliot
Preludes read by T.S. Eliot
00:51Frank Loesser
My Time of Day
Performers: The Original National Theatre Cast, Ian Charleson
- Guys and Dolls.
- EMI MFP 0946 3213888.
Thom Gunn
Night Taxi read by Rory Kinnear
00:53Maurice Ravel
Prelude a la nuit
Performer: The Cleveland Orchestra, Vladimir Ashkenazy - conductor
- ELOQUENCE 467 428-2.
Walt Whitman
A Clear Midnight read by Amanda Root
00:57Philip Glass
Evening Song from Satyagraba
- The Essential Philip Glass.
- SONY SBK64133.
Fleur Adcock
Things read by Amanda Root
Lord Byron
We'll go no more a'roving read by Rory Kinnear
01:02Charles-Valentin Alkan
Nocturne in B
Performer: Jack Gibbons - piano
- 12 Studies in the Minor Keys.
- ASV CDDCS227.
01:09Elvis Costello
The Lovers Arise
Performer: London Symphony Orchestra, Michael Tilson Thomas - conductor
- Il Sogno.
- DEUTSCHE GRAMMOPHON 00289 471 5772.
William Shakespeare
Romeo and Juliet read by Amanda Root and Rory Kinnear
01:12Arnold Schoenberg
Verklarte Nacht
Performers: Berliner Philharmoniker
Broadcasts
- Sun 6 Jan 2008 22:15³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ Radio 3
- Sat 31 Jul 2010 18:00³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ Radio 3