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Readings by Jane Horrocks and Art Malik take us from Charlotte Bronte to Hilaire Belloc and William Blake, whilst musical choices evoke water mills, windmills and cotton mills.

From The Watermill by composer Ronald Binge to Windy Miller, Don Quixote tilting at windmills and the windmills of your mind. National Mills weekend in the UK takes place later this month on May 13th and 14th - so today's Words and Music explores mills of different kinds. Readers Jane Horrocks and Art Malik take us from George Eliot's rural setting of The Mill on the Floss to the factory strikes in Elizabeth Gaskell's novel North and South via Helen Mort's poem describing gentrification at Litton Mill. Alfred Lord Tennyson's love poem describes The Miller's Daughter "grown so dear", Stephen Sondheim's maid Petra dreams of marrying The Miller's Son and Judith Kerr and John Faulkner wrote the Miller's Song which appeared in the TV programme Bagpuss.

Producer: Georgia Mann

1 hour, 14 minutes

Last on

Sun 5 May 2024 18:00
麻豆社 Radio 3

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

  • 00:01

    Ronald Binge

    The Watermill for oboe and string orchestra

    Performer: Ruth Scott. Orchestra: The New London Orchestra. Conductor: Ronald Corp.
    • Hyperion CDA66868.
    • Tr 8.

  • Jane Austen

    Extract from The Mill on the Floss read by Jane Horrocks

  • Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

    The Windmill read by Art Malik

  • 00:06

    Ernest John Moeran

    3 Fancies (1. Windmills)

    Performer: Duncan Honeybourne.
    • EM Records EMRCD012-013.
    • Tr. 8.
  • 00:06

    Ernest John Moeran

    Windmills (3 Fancies)

    Performer: Duncan Honeybourne.
  • 00:09

    Michel Legrand

    The Windmills of your Mind

    Performer: The 12 Cellists of the Berlin Philharmonic.
    • Warner Classics 0724355778956.
    • Tr. 113.

  • Jill Millard Shapiro

    Extract from A Souvenir of the Windmill Theatre read by Jane Horrocks, Compiled by 鈥榚x Windmill girl鈥� Jill Millard Shapiro, Published by Obscuriosity Press

  • 00:14

    George Fenton

    Everybody Loves The Windmill from Mrs Henderson Presents

    Composer: Simon Chamberlain. Performer: Original London Cast.
    • Sony 0889853040728.
    • Tr 1.
  • 00:16

    Hubert Parry

    Jerusalem (arr. for cello & piano)

    Performer: Steven Isserlis. Performer: Connie Shih.
    • BIS BIS-2312.
    • Tr 13.

  • William Blake

    Jerusalem read by Art Malik

  • Elizabeth Gaskell

    Extract from North and South read by Jane Horrocks

  • 00:19

    Gustav Holst

    A Moorside Suite (iii. March)

    Performer: Black Dyke Band.
    • Albion ALBCD027.
    • Tr 14.

  • John Cunningham

    The Miller read by Art Malik

  • 00:25

    Freddie Phillips

    Windy Miller from Camberwick Green

    Performer: Brian Cant.
    • 麻豆社 978-1408427408.
  • 00:25

    Sandra Kerr & John Faulkner

    The Miller鈥檚 Song

    Performer: Sandra Kerr & John Faulkner.
    • Earth Recordings.
    • Tr 17.
  • 00:26

    Sergey Rachmaninov

    Vocalise (Op.34`14) arr. Rose for cello and piano [orig. for voice & piano]

    Performer: Leonard Elschenbroich. Performer: Alexei Grynyuk.
    • Onyx 4116.
    • Tr 8.

  • Tennyson

    The Miller鈥檚 Daughter read by Art Malik

  • 00:34

    Franz Schubert

    Die Schone Mullerin - song-cycle (D.795), no.8; Morgengruss

    Singer: Mark Padmore. Performer: Paul Lewis.
    • Harmonia Mundi HMU907519.
    • Tr 8.
  • 00:38

    Anon.

    Estampie real no. 8 [Manuscrit du Roi, F-Pn fr.844]

    Ensemble: Early Music Consort of London. Conductor: David Munrow.
    • Decca 00028943026420.
    • Tr 11.

  • Chaucer

    The Miller鈥檚 Tale from The Canterbury Tales read by Dr Daisy Black

  • 00:40

    Maurice Ravel

    Jeux d'eau for piano

    Performer: Steven Osborne.
    • Hyperion CDA67731/2.
    • Tr 10.

  • Helen Mort

    Litton Mill read by Jane Horrocks

  • Charlotte Bronte

    Extract from Shirley read by Jane Horrocks

  • 00:47

    Edward Elgar

    Nursery Suite - The Wagon Passes

    Orchestra: Ulster Orchestra. Conductor: Bryden Thomson.
    • Chandos 863484.
    • Tr 18.
  • 00:49

    Frederic Rzewski

    North American Ballads: Winnsboro Cotton Mill Blues

    Performer: Marc-Andr茅 Hamelin.
    • Hyperion CDA67077.
    • Tr 41.

  • An Operative

    The Cotton Mill read by Jane Horrocks

  • 00:50

    John Ireland

    A Downland suite for brass band: no.2; Elegy

    Ensemble: Black Dyke Band. Conductor: Major Peter Parkes.
    • Chandos CHAN4516.
    • Tr 10.

  • William Clarke

    The Cry of the Operative read by Art Malik

  • Charles Causley

    Miller鈥檚 End read by Art Malik

  • 00:56

    B茅la Bart贸k

    Music for Strings, Percussion and Celesta: III. Adagio

    Orchestra: Berliner Philharmoniker. Conductor: Herbert von Karajan.
    • DG 415 3222 (or 457 890-2).
    • Tr 8.
  • 00:57

    Ina Boyle

    Looking Back: IV. The Mill-Water

    Singer: Ben McAteer. Performer: Iain Burnside.
    • Delphian DCD34264.
    • Tr 10.

  • Carl Sandburg

    Flanders read by Jane Horrocks

  • 01:01

    脫lafur Arnalds

    Only the Winds

    Performer: 脫lafur Arnalds.
    • Mercury 4810151.
    • Tr 8.

  • Vincent Van Gogh

    Extract from a letter from Vincent Van Gogh to Theo Van Gogh read by Art Malik

  • 01:08

    Michael Torke

    Bright blue music for orchestra

    Orchestra: Baltimore Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: David Zinman.
    • Argo 4330712.
    • Tr 5.

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  • Sun 5 May 2024 18:00
    麻豆社 Radio 3

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