Money
Texts and music on the theme of money, with readings by Sylvestra Le Touzel and Dan Stevens. Includes Dostoyevsky, Defoe and F Scott Fitzgerald, plus Beethoven, Puccini, Stravinsky.
Money makes the world go round. It also tends to bring out the worst in people, and a wealth of novels and poems have been written on and around the subject. The gentlemen in Jane Austen's novels usually have plenty of it, while the unfortunate Katerina Ivanovna in Dostoyevsky's Crime and Punishment certainly does not. Defoe's Moll Flanders and F Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby are on the make, while characters in Dickens and E Nesbit are in a ruinous state through losing their money. And Martin Amis's John Self thinks he's making money, later to find that he's actually losing it too.
Sylvestra Le Touzel and Dan Stevens read poems and texts which show the impact money, or lack of money has on literary characters' lives, with music by Beethoven, Puccini, Stravinsky and Abba.
Producer - Ellie Mant.
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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
Richard Wagner - Das Rhinegold (excerpt)
Performer: Oda Balsborg, Hetty Plumacher, Ira Malaniuk, Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra, conducted by Georg Solti
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Christopher Darlington Morley
Not Negotiable read by Dan Stevens
00:01John Gay
The Beggar's Opera - Overture
Performer: City of London Sinfonia, conducted by Christian Curnyn, arranged Benjamin Britten
- CHANDOS CHAN105482.
Jane Austen
Pride and Prejudice read by Sylvestra Le Touzel
00:06Ignace Joseph Pleyel
Sonatina no.1 in C major
Performer: Martin Souter (fortepiano)
- ISIS CD024.
Jason Guriel
Money is Also a Kind of Music read by Dan Stevens
00:08Milton Grant, Fred Wray
Rumble (excerpt)
Performer: Hal Blaine and Friends
- HARKIT HRKCD8201.
Daniel Defoe
Moll Flanders read by Sylvestra Le Touzel
00:11John Tavener
The Repentant Thief (2nd Dance)
Performer: Andrew Marriner (clarinet), London Symphony Orchestra conducted by Michael Tilson Thomas
- COLLINS 20052COL.
John Keats
Robin Hood – To a Friend read by Dan Stevens
00:15Erich Wolfgang Korngold
Robin Hood and his Merry Men (The Adventures of Robin Hood)
Performer: ³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ Philharmonic, conductor Rumon Gamba
- CHANDOS CHAN10336.
Jenny Joseph
Cutting Off One’s Ear for Someone Else is Wrong read by Sylvestra Le Touzel
00:19Jonathan Richman - Vincent van Gogh (excerpt)
Performer: Jonathan Richman
Charles Dickens
Bleak House read by Dan Stevens
00:21Ludwig van Beethoven
Rondo a capriccio Op.129 'Rage over a Lost Penny'
Performer: Evgeny Kissin (piano)
- RCA 09026 689112.
Martial translated by JA Pott
Epigrams Book 9 – To Garricus read by Sylvestra Le Touzel
00:27Giacomo Puccini
Gianni Schicchi (excerpt)
Performer: Jose van Dam, Angela Gheorghiu, Felicity Palmer, Roberto Alagna, Luigi Roni, London Symphony Orchestra conducted by Antonio Pappano
- EMI CDC 556590.
Martin Amis
Money: A Suicide Note read by Dan Stevens
00:29Barrett Strong
Money (That's What I Want)
Composer: Janie Bradford, Berry Gordy
- TAMLA MOTOWN ZD72514.
Dorothy Parker
Biographies read by Sylvestra Le Touzel
00:34Alfred Newman
How to Marry A Millionaire – Street Scene
Performer: City of Prague Philharmonic Orchestra, conductor Nic Raine
- SILVA SCREEN FILMXCD352.
The Bible
Matthew 6:24 read by Dan Stevens
00:40Musorgsky - Boris Godunov (excerpt)
Performer: Vladimir Vaneev, Zlata Bulycheva, Kirov Opera and Orchestra, conductor Valery Gergiev
Leonard Bacon
A Concert read by Sylvestra Le Touzel
William Shakespeare
The Merchant of Venice read by Dan Stevens
00:42Franz Liszt
Mephisto Waltz no.1 (excerpt)
Performer: Leif Ove Andsnes (piano)
- EMI CZS 5747892.
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Crime and Punishment read by Sylvestra Le Touzel
00:47Henry Purcell
Blessed is he that considereth the poor (excerpt)
Performer: King’s Concert, conductor Robert King
- HYPERION CDS44150.
F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Great Gatsby read by Dan Stevens
00:52Kurt Weill
The Threepenny Opera - Overture
Performer: Ensemble Modern, conductor HK Gruber
- RCA 74321661332.
Hilaire Belloc
Lord Finchley read by Sylvestra Le Touzel
00:54ABBA
Money money money
Performer: Abba
- POLAR 9819297.
Thomas Hardy
The Mayor of Casterbridge read by Dan Stevens
00:59Igor Stravinsky
The Rake's Progress (excerpt)
Performer: Peter Bronder, The Monteverdi Choir conducted John Eliot Gardiner
- DG 4596482.
Jean Ayer
Everyday Things read by Sylvestra Le Touzel
01:02Aaron Copland
Appalachian Spring (excerpt)
Performer: The New York Virtuosi, conductor Kenneth Klein
- COLLINS 10972.
E. Nesbit
The Story of the Treasure Seekers read by Dan Stevens
01:07[traditional]
Pop Goes the Weasel (excerpt)
Performer: Sophie Aldred, Richard Mitchley and children
- ³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ Audiobooks 978 1405677301.
Anonymous
Life’s a Game read by Sylvestra Le Touzel
01:09Sergey Prokofiev
The Gambler Suite - Denouement
Performer: Scottish National Orchestra, conductor Neeme Jarvi
- CHANDOS CHAN 8803.
Broadcasts
- Sun 20 Feb 2011 22:15³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ Radio 3
- Thu 22 Dec 2011 17:00³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ Radio 3