In Search of the Sublime
The inexorable yearning for transcendence: Stephen Mangan and Adjoa Andoh read prose and poems by Keats, Mary Wollstonecraft and Robert Scott with music by Janacek and Prokofiev.
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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
Leos JanáÄek
Quatour no. 1 "Sonate à Kreutzer", Adagio
Performer: Quatuor Talich
- CALLIOPE CAL9699.
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Sappho (trans. Anne Carson)
Fragment 31 read by Adjoa Andoh
00:04James Brown, Johnny
Please, Please, Please
Performer: James Brown and his Famous Flames
- POLYDOR.
Frank O’Hara
Radio read by Stephen Mangan
00:07Sergey Prokofiev
Sonata pour deux violins op. 65, Andante cantabile
Performer: David Oistrakh, Igor Oistrakh
- PRAGA PR250041.
00:11Joseph Haydn
Die Schöpfung, Die Himmel erzählen die Ehre Gottes
Performer: The Monteverdi Choir, The English Baroque Soloists, cond. John Eliot Gardiner
- ARCHIV 4492172.
Mary Wollstonecraft
Extract from Short Residence in Sweden, Norway and Denmark read by Adjoa Andoh
00:16Thomas Adès
The Tempest, Act One, Scene One "Hell is Empty"
Performer: Royal Opera Chorus, The Orchestra of the Royal Opera house, Thomas Thomas Adès
- EMI 6952342.
William Beebe
Extract from A Round Trip to Davy Jones’ Locker read by Stephen Mangan
00:20Gustav Holst
The Planets Suite, Neptune, the Mystic
Performer: Orchestre symphonique de Montréal, cond Charles Dutoit
- DECCA 4175532.
John Keats
On First Looking Into Chapman’s Homer, read by Stephen Mangan
Elizabeth Jennings
Stargazers and Others, read by Adjoa Andoh
00:29Johann Sebastian Bach
Cello Suite, No 2 (BWV 1008) Menuet I
Performer: Mstislav Rostropovich
- EMI CDS5553632.
00:31Richard Hawley
Late Night Final, Cry a Tear for a Man on the Moon
Performer: Richard Hawley
- SETANTA B00005Q3ZG.
Lavinia Greenlaw
For the First Dog in Space, read by Adjoa Andoh
00:31Pascal Content and Wu Wei
Iceberg, Amery Ice Shelf
Performer: Pascal Content, Wu Wei
- SIGNATURE SIG11056.
Robert Falcon Scott
Diary extract, read by Stephen Mangan
00:41Lili Boulanger
Pie Jesu
Performer: Alain Fauqueur (boy soprano of the Petits Chantueurs de Vincennes), JJ Grunenwald ( organ), Igor Markevitch (conductor)
- EVEREST EVC9034.
Percy Bysshe Shelley
Ozymadias, read by Adjoa Andoh
00:47Ludwig van Beethoven
Symphony No. 5 in C minor, op 67, Allegro (extract)
Performer: Berliner Philharmoniker, Herbert Von Karajan (conductor)
- DEUTSCHE GRAMMOPHON 4139322.
Hart Crane
Proem to Brooklyn Bridge, read by Adjoa Andoh
00:53C J Parker
Charlie Parker: Bird / The Savoy Recordings, Parker's Mood
Performer: Charlie Parker
- SAVOY ZD70737.
Gerard Manley Hopkins
God’s Grandeur, read by Stephen Mangan
00:57Richard Strauss
Vier Letzte Lieder, Beim Schlafengehen
Performer: Jessye Norman, Gewandhaus Orchester Leipzig, Kurt Masur conductor
- PHILIPS 4110522.
TS Eliot
Extract from part V, Dry Salvages, The Four Quartets, read by Paul Scofield
01:05Olivier Messiaen
Quatuor pour la fin du temps, viii Louange a l'immortalite de Jesus
Performer: Gil Shaham (violin), Paul Meyer (clarinet), Jian Wang (violoncello), Myung-Whun Chung (piano)
- DEUTSCHE GRAMMOPHON 4690522.
Broadcasts
- Sun 26 Sep 2010 22:15Â鶹Éç Radio 3
- Wed 29 Dec 2010 17:00Â鶹Éç Radio 3