成人快手

Timings (where shown) are from the start of the programme in hours and minutes

• Jean-Jacques Rousseau, trans. J. M. Cohen

  The Confessions (excerpt), reader Tom Goodman-Hill

• 00:00

  Alexander Scriabin

  The Poem of Ecstasy (opening)

  Performer: Cleveland Orchestra Performer: Lorin Maazel

  • Decca 417 252-2.
• 00:02

  Morton Feldman

  String Quartet (II) (excerpt)

  Performer: FLUX Quartet

  • mode 112.

• Edward Gibbon

  The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire (excerpt), reader Lesley Manville

• 00:04

  Richard Strauss

  Don Quixote (excerpts)

  Performer: Steven Isserlis (cello) Performer: Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra Performer: Lorin Maazel (conductor)

  • RCA 74321 75398 2.

• Cervantes, trans. John Rutherford

  Don Quixote (excerpt), reader Lesley Manville

• Alan Bennett

  Writing 成人快手 (excerpt), reader Tom Goodman-Hill

• 00:08

  Olivier Messiaen

  Visions de l'Amen (No. 4)

  Performer: Steven Osborne (piano) Performer: Martin Roscoe (piano)

  • Hyperion CDA 67366.

• F. Scott Fitzgerald

  The Great Gatsby (excerpt), reader Tom Goodman-Hill

• 00:11

  Original Dixieland Jazz Band & Joe Jordan

  Dixie Jass Band One Step

  Performer: Original Dixieland Jazz Band

  • Trikont TRIKONT-0396.
• 00:12

  Gross/Lawrence

  Tenderly

  Performer: Ella Fitzgerald Performer: Louis Armstrong

  • Prism PLATCD4908.

• Robert Herrick

  The Beggar to Mab, the Fairy Queen, reader Lesley Manville

• 00:17

  Felix Mendelssohn

  Scherzo from A Midsummer Night's Dream

  Performer: Ensemble Orchestral de Paris Performer: John Nelson (conductor)

  • Virgin Classics 5455322.

• Lewis Carroll

  Alice鈥檚 Adventures in Wonderland (excerpt), reader Lesley Manville

• 00:24

  Prokofiev, arr. Pletnev

  Spring from 'Cinderella'

  Performer: Martha Argerich (piano) Performer: Mikhail Pletnev (piano)

  • Deutsche Grammophon 00289 474 8682.

• Jonathan Swift

  Gulliver鈥檚 Travels (excerpt), reader Tom Goodman-Hill

• 00:27

  Modest Mussorgsky

  'Ballet of the Unhatched Chicks' from Pictures at an Exhibition

  Performer: Berlin Philharmonic Performer: Simon Rattle (conductor)

  • EMI 51758226.
• 00:28

  Modest Mussorgsky

  'The Hut on Fowl's Legs (Baba Yaga)' from Pictures at an Exhibition

  Performer: Berlin Philharmonic Performer: Simon Rattle (conductor)

  • EMI 51758226.

• Mary Shelley

  Frankenstein (excerpt), reader Tom Goodman-Hill

• 00:32

  Alban Berg

  Act III Interlude from Wozzeck

  Performer: Staatskapelle Berlin Performer: Daniel Barenboim (conductor)

  • Teldec 0630-14108-2.

• Emily Dickinson

  Untitled, reader Lesley Manville

• 00:36

  Johann Sebastian Bach

  Weinen, Klagen, Sorgen, Zagen (BWV 12)

  Performer: Collegium Vocale Gent Performer: Philippe Herreweghe (conductor)

  • Harmonia Mundi HMC 901843.

• George Orwell

  Nineteen-Eighty-Four (excerpt), reader Lesley Manville

• 00:44

  Dmitry Shostakovich

  Largo from Symphony No. 4 (excerpt)

  Performer: Scottish National Orchestra Performer: Neeme J盲rvi (conductor)

  • Chandos CHAN 8640.

• Quentin Crisp

  The Naked Civil Servant (excerpt), reader Tom Goodman-Hill

• 00:48

  Robert Farnon

  Portrait of a Flirt

  Performer: New London Orchestra Performer: Ronald Corp (conductor)

  • Hyperion CDS 44263.

• Jeanette Winterson

  Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit (excerpt), reader Lesley Manville

• 00:52

  The Dixie Hummingbirds

  Devil Can't Harm a Praying Man

  Performer: The Dixie Hummingbirds

  • Shout! 2950682.

• Maya Angelou

  I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings (excerpt), reader Lesley Manville

• 00:54

  Rezs? Seress

  Gloomy Sunday

  Performer: Billie Holiday

  • Verve 549-081-2.
  • 10.
• 00:58

  Gesualdo

  O vos omnes

  Performer: Tallis Scholars Performer: Peter Phillips (conductor)

  • Gimell CDGIM 015.

• Albert Camus, trans. Joseph Laredo

  The Outsider (excerpt), reader Tom Goodman-Hill

• 01:02

  Ludwig van Beethoven

  Grosse Fugue, Op. 133

  Performer: Lindsay String Quartet

  • ASV CDDCS 403.
• 01:06

  Benjamin Britten

  Violin Concerto (3rd mov)

  Performer: Maxim Vengerov (violin) Performer: London Symphony Orchestra Performer: Mstislav Rostropovich (conductor)

  • EMI 5575102.

• John Clare

  I Am, reader Tom Goodman-Hill