Wine
Tamsin Greig and Tom Hollander uncork a celebration of the joys and pitfalls of wine, including texts by Shakespeare, Chaucer and Baudelaire, with music from Offenbach, Mahler and Frank Martin.
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00:00Gustav Mahler
Das Lied von der Erde
Performer: James King, Vienna Philharmonic, Leonard Bernstein.- Decca 4523012.
- Tr1.
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Chaucer
The Canterbury Tales, read by Tamsin Greig
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00:05B茅la Bart贸k
Burlesque no.2 聭Tipsy聮
Performer: Andreas Bach.- Hanssler 98042.
- CD1 Tr18.
Joyce
Ulysses, read by Tom Hollander
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00:08Ravel
Chanson a boire
Performer: Gerald Finley, Julius Drake.- Hyperion CDA67728.
- Tr9.
Tolstoy
Anna Karenina, read by Tamsin Greig
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00:13William Walton
Belshazzar聮s Feast
Performer: John Shirley-Quirk, LSO & Chorus, Andre Previn.- EMI CDC7476242.
- Tr4-6.
Li Po
Drinking Alone by Moonlight, read by Tom Hollander
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00:22Gustav Mahler
Das Lied von der Erde
Performer: James King, Vienna Philharmonic, Leonard Bernstein.- Decca 4523012.
- Tr5.
Austen
Sense and Sensibility, read by Tamsin Greig
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00:29Jacques Offenbach
Isabella鈥檚 Hangover Song (Christopher Columbus)
Performer: Anne Dawson. Ensemble: London Mozart Players. Performer: Alun Francis.Yeats
A Drinking Song, read by Tamsin Greig
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00:33Martin
Le vin herbe
Performer: RIAS Kammerchor, Scharoun Ensemble, Daniel Reuss.- Harmonia Mundi HMC90193536.
- CD1, Tr4.
Dahl
Taste, read by Tom Hollander
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00:43Claude Debussy
La puerta del Vino
Performer: Jean鈥怑fflam Bavouzet.- Chandos CHAN10421.
- Tr15.
Baudelaire
The Soul of Wine, read by Tamsin Greig
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00:48Verdi
Libiamonne聮lieti calici (La Traviata)
Performer: Placido Domingo, Bavarian State Opera Chorus & Orchestra, Carlos Kleiber.- DG 4293052.
- Tr7.
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00:51Godowsky
Symphonic Metamorphosis on Wine, Women and Song
Performer: Marc鈥怉ndr茅 Hamelin.- Hyperion CDA67626.
- Tr12.
Shakespeare
Henry IV Part Two, read by Tom Hollander
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01:05Ibert
Bacchanale
Performer: CBSO, Louis Fremaux.- EMI CDC7492612.
- Tr8.
Producer's Note
Join Tom Hollander and Tamsin Greig for a festive glass of wine in the company of a wide range of writers and composers.
In the prologue to his Canterbury Tales, Chaucer describes a table of strangers gathered round a tavern table, the sole connection between them their love of wine.聽 Shakespeare鈥檚 Falstaff tells all who will listen of the stimulating and fortifying properties of sack, a precursor to sherry while, in Sense and Sensibility, Austen鈥檚 Elinor appreciates the healing properties a glass has on pains both physical and emotional.聽 Li Po, Baudelaire, Yeats and Joyce all praise wine: ambrosial, unifying, aphrodisiac, ecstatic.
Musical oenophilia comes from a聽 tipsy Bartok burlesque and the famous brindisi from Verdi鈥檚 La traviata.聽 Debussy evokes the Alhambra鈥檚 Wine Gate; Mahler a springtime drunkard; Offenbach, in his wonderful operetta Christopher Columbus, the Queen鈥檚 rather grim hangover.聽 Frank Martin鈥檚 Le vin herbe is a retelling of the story of Tristan and Isolde and the flask of wine infused with herbs in order to inflame the senses; Belshazzar orders his retinue to drink wine from the exiled jews鈥� sacred vessels, thus ensuring this feast is his last.聽 Johann Strauss鈥檚 Wine, Women and Song is kicked up a notch in Godowsky鈥檚 high-proof piano reworking, while Ibert鈥檚 Bacchanale was written sixty years ago for the tenth anniversary of the 麻豆社 Third Programme.
Now, could someone please help me find the Radio 3 corkscrew鈥�Broadcast
- Christmas Day 2016 17:30麻豆社 Radio 3
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