Poetry 25: Birds

Texts read and Music played

1. Beethovem Symphony No. 6, Pastoral, second movement
2. Poem, The Unknown Bird by Edward Thomas
3. When the red, red robin comes bob, bob, bobbin’ along, sung by Doris Day, 1954
4. Mistle thrush, sub-song and song
5. Poem, The Darkling Thrush, by Thomas Hardy
6. Poem, To a Skylark, by Percy Bysshe Shelley
7. The Lark Ascending by Ralph Vaughan Williams
8. Poem, The Caged Skylark, by Gerard Manley Hopkins
9. The Bluebird by Charles Stanford
10. The Little Turtle Dove, sung by Ian Bostridge, with Julius Drake on piano
11. Woodland Birds – The Nightingale
12. Poem, To a Nightingale by John Keats
13. Extract from The Birds by Ottorino Respighi – The Nightingale
14. Poem, Nightingale, by Robert Bridges
15. A Nightingale Sang in Berkeley Square sung by Nat King Cole, 1939
16. Poem, Wild Swans at Coole by W. B Yeats
17. Melody in the Wind, composed and played by Nigel Kennedy