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A European Journey

A trip around Europe featuring celebrated writers and composers from the continent, as well as visitors including Sidney Bechet, Jessica Mitford and Audrey Hepburn's Roman Holiday.

We visit Paris in the company of Zola, Seville with Lorca, and a tiny Finnish island with Tove Jansson. There鈥檚 music based on Bulgarian folklore; Dobrinka Tabakova's Spinning a Yarn, Mendelssohn鈥檚 yodelling-inspired String Symphony No. 9 and Liszt鈥檚 settings of Petrarchan sonnets. And we鈥檙e also hearing from those inspired by their journeys to Europe; memoirs by Jessica Mitford and Sidney Bechet, poets taking what became known in the eighteenth century the Grand Tour as well as fictional journeys in Roman Holiday and Room with a View, aided by the guidebooks of Karl Baedeker. As we tour, we admire the landscape with Beethoven鈥檚 Pastoral Symphony set alongside the contemporary writer Teju Cole鈥檚 Swiss travelogue. We鈥檙e in the towns and cities, lakes and mountains, and we couldn鈥檛 resist a nod to Eurovision.

The readers are Juliet Stevenson and Parth Thakerer and the programme ends a week in which Radio 3's Roadtrip has visited 5 European cities.

Producer in Salford: Jessica Treen

READINGS:
Stefan Zweig: The World of Yesterday
Evelyn Scott: Viennese Waltz
Teju Cole: Far Away From Here
Fleur Jaeggy: Sweet Days of Discipline
Karl Baedecker: Italy
E.M. Forster: A Room With A View
Samuel Taylor Coleridge: Cologne
Franz Kafka: Letter Extract
Helen Oyeyemi: Parasol Against The Axe
Tove Jansson: The Summer Book
Olga Tokarczuk: Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead
Fernando Pessoa: Lisbons 鈥� What The Tourist Should See
Hillaire Belloc: Tarentella
Federico Garc铆a Lorca: Seville
Jessica Mitford: Hons and Rebels
Sidney Bechet: Treat it Gentle
Sara Teasdale: Paris in Spring
脡mile Zola: The Belly of Paris

1 hour, 14 minutes

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Sun 5 Jan 2025 18:00
麻豆社 Radio 3

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Music Played

Timings (where shown) are the time of the day

  • 18:00

    Johann Strauss II

    Vienna Blood, Op.354

    Performer: Chicago Symphony Orchestra.
    • Sony.
    • Tr7.

  • Stefan Zweig

    The World of Yesterday

  • Evelyn Scott

    Viennese Waltz

  • 18:06

    Leonard Cohen

    Take This Waltz

    • Columbia.
    • Tr2.
  • 18:09

    A. L. Gassmann

    Kuhreihen

    Performer: Walter Chappuis.
    • Claves.
    • Tr2.

  • Teju Cole

    Far Away From Here

  • 18:11

    Felix Mendelssohn

    Symphony no. 9 in C for string orchestra: 3rd mvt; Scherzo

    Performer: Munich Radio Orchestra.
    • BR-Klassik.
    • Tr203.

  • Fleur Jaeggy

    Sweet Days of Discipline

  • 18:16

    Franz Liszt

    3 Sonetti di Petrarca S.270`1 no.2; Benedetto sia 'l giorno

    Performer: Andr猫 Schuen.
    • Avi-music.
    • Tr2.

  • Karl Baedecker

    Italy: Handbook for Travellers

  • 18:23

    Georges Auric

    Roman Holiday Main Title

    Performer: Georges Auric.
    • Disques Cinemusique.
    • Tr.

  • E.M Forster

    A Room With A View

  • 18:26

    Ludwig van Beethoven

    Symphony no. 6 (Op.68) in F maj "Pastoral", 3rd mvt; Lustiges Zusammensein

    Performer: Berliner Philharmoniker.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.
    • Tr3.

  • Samuel Taylor Coleridge

    Cologne

  • 18:29

    Franz Schubert

    Die Forelle, D.550

    Performer: Anne Sofie von Otter.
    • DG.
    • Tr2.

  • Franz Kafka

    Letter Extract

  • 18:31

    Anton铆n Dvo艡谩k

    Dvorak: Quintet No. 2 In A Major Op.81 For Piano And Strings - Scherzo

    Performer: Veronika Jar暖拧kov谩.
    • Tr.

  • Helen Oyeyemi

    Parasol Against the Axe

  • 18:34

    Marc鈥怉ntoine Charpentier

    Te Deum for soloists, choir & orchestra (H.146), Prelude

    Performer: Musica Polyphonica.
    • Erato.
    • Tr1.
  • 18:34

    ABBA

    Waterloo (Swedish Version)

    • Polar Music International AB.
    • Tr13.
  • 18:36

    Jean Sibelius

    Symphony No. 3, 2nd mvt. Andantino con moto (quasi allegretto)

    Performer: Royal Philharmonic Orchestra.
    • Rubicon.
    • Tr6.

  • Tove Jannson

    The Summer Book

  • 18:40

    Fr茅d茅ric Chopin

    6 Polish Songs, S.480: ii) Fr眉hling

    Music Arranger: Franz Liszt. Performer: Mariam Batsashvili.
    • Warner Classics.
    • Tr3.

  • Olga Tokarczuk

    Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead

  • 18:42

    Dobrinka Tabakova

    Spinning a Yarn

    Performer: Roman Mints.
    • Quartz.
    • Tr6.
  • 18:44

    Camille Saint鈥怱a毛ns

    Une Nuit a Lisbonne - barcarolle for orchestra (Op.63)

    Performer: Neeme J盲rvi.
    • Chandos.
    • Tr8.

  • Fernando Pessoa

    Lisbon 鈥� What the tourist should see

  • 18:00

    Alfredo Marceneiro

    Estranha Forma De Vida

    Performer: Am谩lia Rodrigues.
    • Parlophone Portugal.
    • Tr1.

  • Hillaire Belloc

    Tarentella

  • Federico Garc铆a Lorca

    Seville

  • 18:53

    Francisco T谩rrega

    T谩rrega: Gp:23 Recuerdos al Alhambra

    Performer: Francisco T谩rrega.
    • DENON Classics.
    • Tr4.
  • 18:57

    Isaac Alb茅niz

    Suite espanola no. 1 arr. Zabaleta for harp..., no.5; Asturias (Leyenda)

    Performer: Nicanor Zabaleta.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.
    • Tr4.

  • Jessica Mitford

    Hons and Rebels

  • 18:59

    Sidney Bechet

    Blues in Paris

    Performer: Sidney Bechet.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.
    • Tr10.

  • Sidney Bechet

    Treat it Gentle

  • Sara Teasdale

    Paris in Spring

  • 19:03

    Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Symphony no. 31 (K.297) in D major "Paris"...,1st movement; Allegro assai

    Performer: Vienna Philharmonic.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.
    • Tr5.

  • Emile Zola

    The Belly of Paris

  • 19:09

    Juliette Gr茅co

    Sous Le Ciel De Paris

    • Master Classics Records.
    • Tr13.

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