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Fathers and Daughters

Featuring musical fathers and daughters Samuel Coleridge-Taylor and Avril, Clara Schumann and Friederich Wieck, and Ravi Shankar, Anoushka and Norah Jones, alongside poems and prose.

Starting with Samuel Coleridge-Taylor and his daughter Avril Coleridge-Taylor, we hear music from other families; Clara Schumann, who was coached by her father Friedrich Wieck, and Ravi Shankar with daughters Anoushka Shankar and Norah Jones, who followed in his footsteps.

There are famous fictional fathers, from the beloved Mr Bennet to the more daunting father figure in Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's Purple Hibiscus and the absent father in The Railway Children. We also hear from precocious daughter Cassandra Mortmain in Dodie Smith's I Capture The Castle and poetry from Helen Mort, who confronts her father's old age, while Virginia Woolf paints a literary portrait of her father Leslie Stephen.

Musical extracts include O Mio Babbino Caro from Puccini's Gianni Schicchi, John Alden Carpenter's Adventures in a Perambulator and Debussy's Children's Corner, dedicated to his daughter Claude-Emma.

The readers are Sam Dale, who features in a new production of Daphne du Maurier鈥檚 Rebecca soon to be on Radio 4 and 麻豆社 Sounds, and Isis Hainsworth, recently on the West End stage in Tom Stoppard's Arcadia.

Produced in Salford by Jessica Treen

Readings:
Heritage of Samuel Coleridge-Taylor by Avril Coleridge-Taylor suggested by the biographer Leah Broad

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Timings (where shown) are from the start of the programme in hours and minutes

  • 00:01

    Edvard Grieg

    4 Symphonic Dances Op.64: no.2; Allegretto grazioso

    Orchestra: Norwegian Radio Orchestra.
    • Edvard Grieg : Symphony, Symphonic Dances.
    • Fazer Records/Finlandia.
    • 6.
  • 00:05

    罢谤盲诲

    Blackwell Merry Night

    Performer: Martin Carthy. Performer: Eliza Carthy.
    • The Moral of The Elephant.
    • Topic.
    • 3.
  • 00:08

    Clara Schumann

    Piano Concerto in A Minor, Romance

    Performer: Lucy Parham.
    • Robert & Clara Schumann: Piano Concertos.
    • Resonance.
    • 5.
  • 00:14

    Ravi Shankar

    Transmigration

    Performer: Ravi Shankar.
    • Transmigration Macabre.
    • Cherry Red Records.
    • 7.
  • 00:15

    Anoushka Shankar

    Traces Of You

    Singer: Norah Jones.
    • Traces Of You.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.
    • 10.
  • 00:19

    Dario Marianelli

    'Dawn' from Pride & Prejudice

    Performer: Jeneba Kanneh鈥怣ason.
    • Jane Austen's Piano.
    • Sony Classical.
    • 1.
  • 00:21

    Giacomo Puccini

    O mio babbino caro

    Singer: Kiri Te Kanawa.
    • Kiri - A Portrait.
    • Decca.
    • 1.
  • 00:23

    Johann Sebastian Bach

    Prelude from Das Wohltemperierte Klavier, bk.1 no. 1 (BWV.846)

    Performer: Sir Andr谩s Schiff.
    • J.S. Bach: The Well-Tempered Clavier, Books 1 & 2: Andras Schiff.
    • ECM.
    • 1.
  • 00:26

    Avril Coleridge-Taylor

    Can Sorrow Find Me?

    Performer: Alexandra Mackenzie.
    • Beyond Twilight: Music for Cello & Piano by Female Composers.
    • Delphian Records.
    • 7.
  • 00:30

    Andrew Lloyd Webber

    The First Man You Remember (Version 2 / Live)

    Singer: Michael Ball. Singer: Kevin Colson. Singer: Diana Morrison. Singer: Ann Crumb.
    • Aspects Of Love (Original London Cast Recording / Remastered 2005).
    • Polydor.
    • 14.
  • 00:32

    Claude Debussy

    Children's Corner for Piano, No.3; Serenade For The Doll

    Performer: Angela Hewitt.
    • Debussy: Children's Corner, Suite Bergamasque, Pour le Piano: Angela Hewitt.
    • Hyperion.
    • 3.
  • 00:35

    Claude Debussy

    Children's corner for piano, no.4; The Snow is Dancing

    Performer: Angela Hewitt.
    • Debussy: Children's Corner, Suite Bergamasque, Pour le Piano: Angela Hewitt.
    • Hyperion.
    • 4.
  • 00:38

    Loudon Wainwright III

    You Never Phone (Live)

    Performer: Loudon Wainwright III. Performer: Martha Wainwright.
    • So Damn Happy (Live).
    • Sanctuary Records.
    • 12.
  • 00:39

    John Alden Carpenter

    Adventures in a Perambulator

    Orchestra: National Symphony Orchestra of Ukraine.
    • Adventures In A Perambulator / Symphonies Nos. 1 And 2.
    • Naxos.
    • 6.
  • 00:43

    Alexander Tsfasman

    Es tut mir Leid

    Performer: Mikhail Zemtsov. Performer: Dana Zemtsov.
    • Fathers & Daughters.
    • Channel Classics.
    • 5.
  • 00:45

    Hector Berlioz

    Le Roi Lear - overture (Op.4)

    Orchestra: London Symphony Orchestra.
    • Berlioz: Overtures: London Symphony Orchestra/Davis.
    • Philips.
    • 1.
  • 00:53

    Maurice Ravel

    Ma Mere l'Oye, Troisieme tableau: III. Les entretiens de la belle et de la bete

    Orchestra: Les Si猫cles.
    • Ravel: Ma M猫re l'Oye, Le tombeau de Couperin & Sh茅h茅razade, ouverture de f茅erie.
    • HARMONIA MUNDI.
    • 6.
  • 00:57

    Gene Austin

    Moonshiner's Daughter

    Composer: Nathaniel Shilkret. Performer: Rhiannon Giddens.
    • Factory Girl.
    • Nonesuch.
    • 3.
  • 00:58

    Gustav Holst

    The Planets - Suite (Op.32); Saturn, The Bringer Of Old Age

    Orchestra: 麻豆社 Philharmonic Orchestra.
    • Holst: Orchestral Works, Volume 2.
    • Chandos.
    • 14.
  • 01:02

    Patrick Allen

    Juliet's Lullaby

    Performer: Patrick Allen.
    • The Sleep.
    • Blue Cloud Collective.
    • 7.
  • 01:06

    Pauline Viardot

    Le Dernier Sorcier: Chanson de la pluie

    Performer: Matilda Lloyd.
    • Casta Diva - Operatic arias transcribed for trumpet.
    • Chandos.
    • 10.
  • 01:08

    Manuel Garc铆a

    Dices bien querida mia

    Orchestra: Spanish National Orchestra. Conductor: Christophe Rousset. Singer: Ainhoa Garmendia. Singer: Carol Garcia.
    • MANUEL GARC脥A: Sinfon铆a No. 1 & Sinfon铆a No. 5 "Quien porf铆a mucho alcanza" (Ope.
    • Chandos.
    • 11.
  • 01:10

    Samuel Coleridge鈥怲aylor

    Othello - Suite Op.79: No.2; Children's Intermezzo

    Orchestra: Chineke! Orchestra.
    • Coleridge-Taylor: Othello, Op. 79: II. Children's Intermezzo.
    • Decca.
    • 2.

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