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Reconciliation

Poetry and music relating to reconciliation, with readings by Harriet Walter and Oliver Dimsdale. With Donne, Peter Porter, Christina Rossetti, plus Tchaikovsky, Adams, Nick Cave.

In our personal lives or on the world stage, reconciliation is an essential part of humankind's co-existence and civility. It can sometimes be a painful process, admitting our mistakes or failings, but it can also be a moment of celebration where we achieve redemption and forgiveness; where we can put the past behind us and move forward with great hope and optimism. Actors Harriet Walter and Oliver Dimsdale read poetry by John Donne, Peter Porter and Christina Rossetti, with music by Tchaikovsky, John Adams and Nick Cave.

1 hour, 15 minutes

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Sun 29 Apr 2018 17:30
麻豆社 Radio 3

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

  • 00:00

    John Adams

    Nixon in China

    Performer: Orchestra of St Luke鈥檚; Edo de Waart

    • Elektra/Nonesuch 979 177-2.

  • Shenagh Pugh

    Sometimes

  • 00:02

    Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Le Nozze di Figaro

    Performer: Thomas Allen; Kiri te Kanawa; Lucia Popp; Samuel Ramey; Robert Tear; Philip Langridge; Giorgio Tadeo

    • DECCA 410 150-2.

  • Derek Mahon

    Everything is going to be alright

  • 00:08

    Leos Jan谩膷ek

    String Quartet No.2 "Intimate Letters"

    Performer: Pavel Haas Quartet

    • Supraphon SU 3877-2.

  • Christina Rossetti

    I loved you first: but afterwards your love

  • 00:16

    Nick Cave

    Love Letter

    Performer: Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds

    • MUTE CDSTUMM 164.

  • James Fenton

    The Mistake

  • 00:22

    Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky

    Acquiescence

    Performer: Olga Borodina; Larissa Gergieva;

    • PHILIPS 4420132.

  • Naomi Shihab Nye

    Kindness

  • 00:29

    Johann Sebastian Bach

    Invention No.15 in B Minor, BWV 786

    Performer: Glenn Gould

    • SONY CLASICAL 82876787662.
  • 00:30

    Johann Sebastian Bach

    Sinfonia No.15 in B Minor, BWV 801

    Performer: Glenn Gould

    • SONY CLASICAL 82876787662.

  • J. Wolfgang von Goethe

    Reconciliation

  • 00:32

    Stephin Merritt

    All My Little Words

    Performer: Magentic Fields

    • Merge Records B00000JY1X.

  • Wendell Berry

    The Peace of Wild Things

  • 00:35

    Michael Nyman

    Reconciliation

    Performer: Michael Nyman Band; Michael Nyman

    • DECCA 425 224-2.

  • Laurie Lee

    The Long War

  • 00:38

    Franz Schubert

    Piano Sonata in A, D.959

    Performer: Alfred Brendel

    • PHILIPS 422 229-2.

  • Anna Swir

    Tomorrow They Will Carve Me

  • 00:47

    Antonio Lotti

    Motet 脿6, Crucifixus

    Performer: Westminster Abbey Choir; Abbey Consort; Martin Neary

    • Sony Classical SK 66615.

  • Siegfried Sassoon

    Reconciliation

  • 00:52

    Enoch Mankayi Sontonga

    Nkosi Sikelel 'lAfrica

    Performer: Ladysmith Black Mambazo

    • Heads Up HUCD 3109.

  • Phillis Wheatley

    On being bought from Africa to America

  • Desmond Tutu

    Forgiving and being reconciled

  • 00:55

    John Adams

    News has a kind of mystery

    Performer: Sanford Sylvan; James Maddalena; Thomas Hammons; Orchestra of St. Luke鈥檚; Edo de Waart

    • Elektra/Nonesuch 979 177-2.

  • Peter Porter

    The Imperfection of the World

  • 01:04

    Ludwig van Beethoven

    Symphony no.9 Op. 125

    Performer: Wiener Philharkmoniker; Sir Simon Rattle

    • EMI 7243 5 57572 2 7.

  • John Donne

    Death Be Not Proud

  • 01:11

    Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Requiem K 626

    Performer: Helen Donath; Yvonne Minton; Ryland Davies; Gerd Nienstedt; John Alldis Choir; 麻豆社 Symphony Orchestra; Sir Colin Davis

    • PHILIPS 438 800-2.

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  • Sun 31 Jul 2011 22:15
    麻豆社 Radio 3
  • Sun 29 Apr 2018 17:30
    麻豆社 Radio 3

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