Awake!
A sequence of music, poetry and prose united by the theme of awakenings.
Including readings by Peter Marinker and Hattie Morahan from the work of Mary Shelley, A E Housman, Edward Thomas, Anne Bronte and Percy Bysshe Shelley. With music by Handel, Bach, Stravinsky and Britten.
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Music Played
Timings (where shown) are from the start of the programme in hours and minutes
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00:00
Anon
Reveille
Performer: The British Grenadiers, The Band of the Grenadier Guards
- BANDLEADER BNA5015.
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Edward Thomas
The Trumpet, read by Peter Marinka
00:01George Frideric Handel
Awake the trumpet's lofty sound, Act 1 Samson
Performer: Arnold Schoenberg Chor, Concentus musicus Wien, Nikolaus Harnoncourt
- TELDEC 9031748712[2].
00:03Annisteen Allen / Lucky Millinder and His Orchestra
Mr Trumpet Man, Fujiyama Mama
Performer: Annisteen Allen / Lucky Millinder and His Orchestra
- Rev-Ola Bandstand B000JBNWJ2.
Anne Bronte
Lines Composed in a Windy Wood, read by Hattie Morahan
00:07Francis Poulenc
Aubade, Concerto pour piano et orchestre
Performer: Orchestre Philharmonique de Liege, Eric le Sage, piano, Stephane Deneve
- RCA 82876603082 [1].
00:10Benjamin Britten
Reveille, Bridge and Britten, Music for Violin and Piano
Performer: Lorraine McAslan, violin, John Blakely, piano
- CONTINUUM CCD1022.
William Carlos Williams
Dawn, read by Hattie Morahan
A E housman
Reveille, from A Shropshire Lad, read by Peter Marinker
00:15Frederick Delius
no. 1: On hearing the first Cuckoo in Spring
Performer: Royal Philharmonic, Sir Thomas Beecham
- EMI CDS7475098.
00:22Igor Stravinsky
Introduction, Partie I: The Adoration of the Earth, Le Sacre du Printemps, Stravinsky Cond
Performer: The Columbia Symphony Orchestra, Igor Stravinsky
- CBS CD42433.
Philip Larkin
Trees, read by Peter Marinker
00:26Aaron Copland
Fast (The Revivalist and his Flock), Appalachian Spring, Bernstein Century Copland, Appala
Performer: New York Philharmonic, Leonard Bernstein
- SONY CLASSICAL SMK63082.
Sylvia Plath
Morning Song, read by Hattie Morahan
00:31Sergey Prokofiev
Aubade, Romeo and Juliet
Performer: Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Vladimir Ashkenazy
- DECCA 4360782.
Tony Connor
A Child Half Asleep, read by Peter Marinker
00:23Robert Schumann
Fast zu Ernst, Kinderszenen, Piano Works
Performer: Vladimir Ashkenazy
- DECCA 4212902.
00:36Edward Elgar
Aubade, Nursery Suite,
Performer: New Zealand Symphony Orchestra, James Judd
- DECCA 4360782.
Mary Shelley
Frankenstein (extract), read by Peter Marinker
00:48Paul Weller
Eton Rifles, The Jam, - '45rpm: The Singles 1977-79
Performer: The Jam
- POLYDOR.
Percy Bysshe Shelley
The Mask of Anarchy (extract), read by Peter Marinker
00:45Johann Sebastian Bach
Wachet auf, ruft uns die Stimme, Wachtet auf, ruft uns die Stimme BWV 140, Dominica 27 pos
Performer: Alan Bergius (Soloist of the Tolzer Knabenchor), Soprano: Stefan Rampf, (Soloist of the Tolzer Knabenchor), Alto: Kurt Equiluz, Tenor: Thomas Hampson, Bass: Tolzer Knabenchor, Chorus Master: Gerhard Schmidt-Gaden, Concentus musicu Wien, Nikolaus Harnoncourt
- TELDEC 4509959872.
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Rita Dove
Adolescence II, read by Hattie Morahan
00:54John Hurley & Ronnie Wilkins - Son of A Preacher Man, And the Beat goes On Volume 2 CD2
Performer: Dusty Springfield
William Shakespeare
Is it thy will?, read by Hattie Morahan
00:57Domenico Scarlatti
Aria, Pur nel sonno almen tal'ora, Scarlatti: Cantatas
Performer: Cyrille Gerstenhaber, soprano; Jean-Christophe Frisch, direction
- ASTREE E8673.
Gerard Manley Hopkins
I wake and feel the fell of dark, not day, read by Peter Marinker
King James Bible
Psalm 102 (extract), read by Hattie Morahan
Johann Sebastian Bach
Aria with Thirty Variations – "Goldberg Variations", BWV 988, Variation 15, Bach and Turec
Performer: Rosalyn Tureck piano
- ALBANY TROY007.
Robert Frost
I have been one acquainted with the night, read by Peter Marinker
Burke and Webster
Black Coffee, Best of Peggy Lee
Performer: Peggy Lee
- Music Club MCCD157.
Broadcasts
- Sun 27 Jun 2010 23:00³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ Radio 3
- Fri 31 Dec 2010 17:00³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ Radio 3