Ideas of Wilderness
Words and music exploring ideas of wilderness from all corners of the globe, with readings by Jenny Agutter and Anton Lesser. Works are by Auden, Jeffers Robinson and Han Shan.
Jenny Agutter and Anton Lesser explore ideas of wilderness from all corners of the globe, reading works by WH Auden, eco-writer Jeffers Robinson, the Australian Elizabeth Brown, Shackleton and the Taoist wilderness literature of Ancient China. Music includes excerpts from Messiaen's Des Canyons aux Etoiles, Redolfi's Mare Teno, Purcell's Solitude and Shostakovich's 8th String Quartet.
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Timings (where shown) are from the start of the programme in hours and minutes
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00:00
Paul Reade
Aspects of Landscape (extract)
Performers: Nicholas Daniel (oboe)
- Leman LC 42801.
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Chia Tao
Evening Landscape, Clearing Snow read by Jenny Agutter
00:00Michel Redolfi
Mare Teno
Performers: Thomas Bloch (ondes martenot)
- Naxos 8.555779.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Frost at Midnight read by Anton Lesser
00:06Frédéric Chopin - Nocturne No.5 in F-sharp major, Op.15 No.2 (Larghetto)
Performers: Maria Joao Pires (piano)
Wilderness Act
Wilderness Act - Public Law 88-566, September 3, 1964 read by Anton Lesser
Robinson Jeffers
Shine, Perishing Republic read by Jenny Agutter
00:15African American Spritual
Go in the Wilderness
Performers: The Princely Players
- Smithsonian Folkways 40072.
Gerald Manley Hopkins
Inversnaid read by Anton Lesser
00:16Jean Sibelius
The Swan of Tuonela
Performers: Jukka Hirvikangas (cor anglais), Lahti Symphony Orchestra, Osmo Vanska (conductor)
- BIS CD 1015.
00:26Paul Reade
Aspects of Landscape (extract)
Performers: Nicholas Daniel (oboe)
- Leman LC 42801.
Han Shan
220 read by Jenny Agutter
00:26Dmitry Shostakovich
String Quartet No 8 - Largo (4th movement)
Performers: Brodsky Quartet
- Teldec 244 919-2.
Shackleton
Beyond all Former Footsteps (extract) read by Anton Lesser
W. H. Auden
Journey to Iceland (AL & JA)
00:35Medieval Icelandic
The song of Fire and Ice
Performers: Sequentia
- DHM 05472773812.
00:37György Ligeti
Magany (Solitude)
Performers: Groupe vocal de France
- EMI 7540962.
Robert Herrick
His Change read by Anton Lesser
Edgar Allan Poe
The City in the Sea read by Jenny Agutter
00:41Henry Purcell
O Solitude, My Sweetest Choice
Performers: James Bowman (countertenor)
- Hyperion CDA66253.
Skeaping/Jeffrey
In the Wilderness -timeless evocation: solo tambour
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Sand of the Desert in an Hour-Glass read by Anton Lesser
00:49Skeaping/Jeffrey
Night in the Desert – descending scales: on santur
- Sounds of the Jewish World.
- KPM 342.
00:50Olivier Messiaen
Le desert (from Des Canyons aux Etoiles)
Performers: Yvonne Loriod (piano), Ensemble Ars Nova, Marius Constant (conductor)
- Erato M2K 44762.
Edward Hopper
Fountains in the Wilderness read by Jenny Agutter
00:55Hotteterre
Dans ces deserts paisable (air)
Performers: Wilbert Hazelzet (traverse), Konrad Junghanel (theorbo)
- Glossa GCD920801.
00:59Ralph Vaughan Williams
Symphony No 3 – Lento Moderato
Performers: London Symphony Orchestra, Andre Previn (conductor)
- RCA GD90503.
William Wordsworth
IV on the sight of a manse in the south of Scotland read by Jenny Agutter
John Clare
Bird o’ the wilderness read by Anton Lesser
01:08Charlie McMahon
Ephemeral Lakes
- Manteca.
Elizabeth Brown
Spiritual Land read by Anton Lesser
01:12Paul Reade
Aspects of Landscape (extract)
Performers: Nicholas Daniel (oboe)
- Leman LC 42801.
T’ao Ch’ien
³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ Again Among Fields and Gardens read by Jenny Agutter
Broadcasts
- Sun 21 Jun 2009 22:15³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ Radio 3
- Tue 21 Dec 2010 17:00³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ Radio 3