Poetry Cafe 198: Byron
08.10.2024
Byron
Playlist (texts read & music played)
Byron (1788 – 1824) on himself Derek Jacobi introduces Byron Byron: Dark Lochnagar Phil Coulter (arr.): Lochnagar Lady Caroline Lamb on Byron Byron: Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage (extracts from Cantos 1 – 4) Derek Jacobi on Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage James Webster on Byron and Mrs Wilmot Byron: She Walks in Beauty Hector Berlioz: Harold in Italy Byron: Manfred (extract) Robert Schumann: Manfred (symphony) Byron: I Saw Thee Weep Johann Nepomuk Hummel & George Thomson: I Saw Thee Weep Byron: The Destruction of Sennacherib Byron, writing on Cephelonia Byron: letter to his friend Kennedy Byron: Don Juan, Canto 3 (extract) Edward John Trelawny on their trip to Ithaca Byron: So we’ll go no more a-roving Byron in a letter to Augusta Leigh from Venice Byron: My days are in the yellow leaf…. (Jan 22, 1824) Rupert Brooke: The Soldier (extract) Byron: Marino Faliero, Doge of Venice (extract) Maurice Ravel: Daphnis et Chloé, Suite no. 2: Lever du jour