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Birds, beasts & flowers a programme of poetry, prose & music.

Title: Birds, beasts & flowers [electronic resource] : a programme of poetry, prose & music.
Publication: Wyastone Leys, Monmouth : Nimbus Records, [1992], p1980.

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Programme of poetry, prose & music
Program of poetry, prose and music
Birds, beasts, and flowers

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Selections of American and English poetry and prose, interspersed with musical selections.
Previously released material.

Event (note)

Recorded at Wyastone Leys, Monmouth.

Contents

From Auguries of innocence / William Blake ; Canzon à 10. Sacrae symphoniae / Gabrieli (1:37) -- From The history of the flood / John Heath-Stubbs ; The unanswered question / Ives (4:43) -- From Miracles / Walt Whitman ; The unanswered question : (cont.) / Ives (1:23) -- Humming-bird / D.H. Lawrence (1:04) -- The tyger / William Blake (1:12) -- In those tropical forests / Mary Kingsley ; The babiaantje / F.T. Prince ; Oiseaux tristes : from Miroirs / Ravel (2:33) -- From Animals and men / Kenneth Clark (:40) -- From In the caves of the Auvergne / W.J. Turner ; Fanfare for the common man / Copland (3:41) -- From Animals and men (:35) -- Mountain lion / D.H. Lawrence (3:43) -- The snare / James Stephens ; Chamber symphony : op. 110a, mvts. I & II / Shostakovich (2:21) -- From Hurt hawks / Robinson Jeffers ; Chamber symphony : (cont.) / Shostakovich (2:21) -- The eagle / Alfred Tennyson ; Chamber symphony : (cont.) / Shostakovich (1:18) -- The question / Percy Bysshe Shelley (2:30) -- Spring (1:09) ; Pied beauty (:42) / Gerard Manley Hopkins -- The proud horse : from Venus and Adonis / William Shakespeare (1:17) -- Variations on a theme of Frank Bridge : op. 10. Aria italiana / Britten (1:19) -- Honorable cat / Paul Gallico ; Variations on a theme of Frank Bridge : op. 10. Chant / Britten (1:33) -- The span of life / Robert Frost -- Cats sleep anywhere / Eleanor Farjeon (:21) -- Engraved on the collar of a dog which I gave to His Royal Highness / Alexander Pope ; March for the Royal Society of Musicians / Haydn (1:37) -- The owl and the pussy-cat (1:32) ; The pelican chorus (3:57) / Edward Lear -- A story about St. Francis of Assisi told by Princess Grace (1:03) -- St. Francis and the birds / Seamus Heaney ; The lark ascending / Vaughan Williams (2:44) -- St. Francis / Humbert Wolfe (1:47) -- Proud songsters / Thomas Hardy ; The lark ascending / Vaughan Williams (1:00) -- A bird's epitaph / Martin Armstrong ; The lark ascending : (cont.) / Vaughan Williams (:33) -- Dorothy Osborne in a letter to Sir William Temple July 1653 (:48) -- Ask me no more / Thomas Carew (1:05) -- On a rosebud sent to her lover / 17th century anon. (:30) -- On a rose / William Browne (1:02) -- Sonnet LIV / William Shakespeare (:49) -- The damask rose / 17th century herbal (:40) -- The garden / Andrew Marvell (3:53) -- Binsey poplars (felled 1879) / Gerard Manley Hopkins (1:52) -- The redwoods / Louis Simpson ; Appalachian spring / Copland (2:58) -- From Song of myself / Walt Whitman (:42) -- Four things / The King James Bible (:33) -- Come into my animal presence / Denise Levertov ; Vocalise, op. 34, no. 14 / Rakhmaninov (1:55) -- From The heaven of animals / James Dickey ; Vocalise : (cont.) / Rakhmaninov (2:49) -- From Psalm 104 ; Vocalise : (cont.) / Rakhmaninov (1:11)

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767876069

Title

Birds, beasts & flowers [electronic resource] : a programme of poetry, prose & music.

Imprint

Wyastone Leys, Monmouth : Nimbus Records, [1992], p1980.

Performer

Read by Princess Grace of Monaco and Richard Pasco ; devised and directed by John Carroll ; music performed, variously, by: John Wallace & The Wallace Collection, Simon Wright director ; The Gulbenkian Orchestra, Michel Swierczewski, conductor ; Vlado Perlemuter ; English Symphony Orchestra, William Boughton, conductor ; English String Orchestra, William Boughton, conductor ; Austro-Hungarian Haydn Orchestra, Adam Fischer, conductor ; BBC Welsh Symphony Orchestra, Tadaaki Otaka, conductor..

Event

Recorded at Wyastone Leys, Monmouth.

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Grace, Princess of Monaco, 1929-1982.

Pasco, Richard.

Carroll, John, 1923-

Wright, Simon (Conductor)

Swierczewski, Michel, 1955-

Perlemuter, Vlado.

Boughton, William, 1948-

Fischer, Ádám, 1949-

Otaka, Tadaaki, 1947-

Wallace Collection (Musical group)

Orquestra Gulbenkian.

English Symphony Orchestra (London, England)

English String Orchestra.

Österreichisch-ungarische Haydnphilharmonie.

BBC Welsh Symphony Orchestra.

Publisher No.

NI7727 Nimbus

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eNYPL Music

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