Poetry Cafe 187: The Lark and the Nightingale
06.05.2024
The Lark and the Nightingale
Playlist (texts read & music played)
Ralph Vaughan Williams: The Lark Ascending (in 4 parts), with faded overlaps(Pinchas Zukerman, English Chamber Orchestra under Daniel Barenboim)
George Meredith: The Lark Ascending Frederick Delius: Summer Night on the River George Butterworth: The Banks of Green Willow Edward Thomas: Adlestrop John Clare: The Skylark Virginia Woolf: The Waves (an extract) Shakespeare: Romeo and Juliet (a quote) Shakespeare: Sonnet 29 (an extract) William Wordsworth: To a Skylark Percy Bysshe Shelley: To a Skylark Song of a skylark Song of a nightingale Samuel Coleridge: The Nightingale BBC May 19, 1942: recording of a nightingale against Lancaster bombers Michael Spitzer: The Musical Human (an extract) Ovid: Metamorphoses (from Book 6) T.S. Eliot: The Waste Land (an extract) John Keats: Ode to a Nightingale (an extract) Percy Bysshe Shelley: Defence of Poetry (an extract) Ottorino Respighi: The Nightingale (from his suite The Birds) Ottorino Respighi: The Pines of the Janiculum (an extract), from The Pines of Rome Paul Verlaine: Le Rossignol Erik Satie: ironic comment on a female singer Nat King Cole: A Nightingale sang in Berkeley Square