Fire
Texts and music inspired by fire, with readings by Alex Jennings and Carolyn Pickles. With Emily Dickinson, DH Lawrence and William Golding, plus Tartini, Peggy Lee and Debussy.
In the first of two programmes inspired by Robert Frost's poem, 'Fire and Ice', Alex Jennings read poetry and prose inspired by fire with work by Robert Frost, Emily Dickinson, D.H. Lawrence, William Golding and Carol Ann Duffy with music by Tartini, Peggy Lee, Debussy, Lauridsen, Stravinsky and Falla.
Producer Fiona McLean.
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Deborah Drattell
The Fire Within
Performer: Scott Goff, flute, Seattle Symphony Conductor: Gerard Schwarz
- Delos DE3159.
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Robert Frost
Fire and Ice read by Alex Jennings
Mark Doty
Fire to Fire read by Carolyn Pickles
00:04Claude Debussy
Feux d'artifice
Performer: Claudio Arrau
- Philips 4203942.
D.H. Lawrence
Fire read by Alex Jennings
00:10Gustav Holst
Dance of Spirits of Fire from The Perfect Fool
Performer: London Symphony Orchestra Conductor: Andre Previn
- EMI CDM5669342.
D.H. Lawrence
Lady Chatterley’s Lover read by Carolyn Pickles
00:14J. Davenport and E. Cooley G
Fever
Performer: Peggy Lee
- Capitol CDp 7 90552.
00:17Franz Liszt
Mephisto Waltz
Performer: Conductor: Georg Solti
James Fenton
Hinterhof read by Alex Jennings
00:28Thomas Campion
Fire, fire, fire, fire!
Performer: Steven Rickards, countertenor, Dorothy Linell. lute
- Naxos 8553380.
Carol Ann Duffy
You read by Carolyn Pickles
00:31Giuseppe Tartini
Il Trillo del Diavelo – Larghetto, Allegro Moderato and Andante
Performer: Anne-Sophie Mutter, Trondheim Soloists Conductor: Anne-Sophie Mutter
- Deutsche Grammophon 4632592.
A.E. Housman
Now Hollow Fires read by Alex Jennings
00:40Ivor Novello/Lena Guilbert Ford
Till the Boys Come ³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ
Performer: Sir Thomas Allen, baritone and Malcolm Martineau, piano
- Hyperion CDA67290.
Michael Symmons Roberts
Fire Regs read by Alex Jennings
00:45Bruce Wolosoff
Song without Words – Fire and Ice
Performer: Carpe Diem String Quartet
- Naxos 8559663.
Emily Dickinson
The Smouldering Embers Blush read by Carolyn Pickles
00:49Morten Lauridsen
Quando son piu lontan from Six 'Fire Songs'
Performer: Polyphony Conductor: Stephen Layton
- Hyperion CDA67449.
00:53Gustav Holst
The Planets - Venus
Performer: New Philharmonia Orchestra Conductor: Sir Adrian Boult
- EMI CDM5669342.
William Golding
Lord of the Flies read by Alex Jennings
01:03Manuel de Falla
Ritual Fire Dance (El Amor Brujo)
Orchestra: ³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Sakari Oramo.Performer: London Symphony Orchestra Conductor: Garcia Navarro
- Deutsche Grammophon 4291812.
Robinson Jeffers
Fire on the Hills read by Carolyn Pickles
01:08Igor Stravinsky
L'Oiseau de Feu - finale
Performer: London Symphony Orchestra Conductor: Claudio Abbado
- Deutsche Grammophon 4158542.
Broadcasts
- Sun 6 Mar 2011 23:00³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ Radio 3
- Tue 27 Dec 2011 17:00³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ Radio 3