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Colours of Autumn

The readers Anton Lesser and Josette Simon with poems and prose, such as Roger McGough and Emily Bront毛, alongside music evoking autumn, including Vivaldi and Elena Kats-Chernin.

To mark the "season of mists and mellow fruitfulness", Radio 3's weekly selection of readings set alongside music links up with the mid morning programme Essential Classics. The readers Anton Lesser and Josette Simon have been appearing on Essential Classics in a midday sequence bringing us poems about apple picking, falling leaves, mushrooms and bird migration. In this compilation we'll hear music from Ella Fitzgerald, Elena Kats-Chernin, George Butterworth and Vivaldi, Joni Mitchell and Rautavaara alongside some listener suggestions from the Essential Classics Playlister which is revealed every weekday at 11.15. The readings include extracts from Cider with Rosie, The Woodlanders, Anne of Green Gables, Wind in the Willows and by Roger McGough, Mary Jean Chan, Simon Armitage, Raine Geoghegan, Jo Clement and John Betjeman.

Produced by Helen Garrison and Robyn Read

You can find Friday's special episode of Essential Classics broadcast from Calke Abbey in Derbyshire available on 91福利社 Sounds

Readings:
Raine Geoghegan: It鈥檚 Hopping Time
John Betjeman: Harrow-on-the-Hill
Mary Jean Chan: The Painter
Dante Gabriel Rosetti: Autumn Song
Sylvia Plath: Mushrooms
Simon Armitage: I kicked a mushroom
Roger McGough: Just another Autumn Day
LM Montgomery: Anne of Green Gables
John Clare: Pleasant Sounds
Annette Wynne: October
Seamus Heaney: No Sanctuary
Mother Goose: The Pumpkin Eater
Jo Clement: A stopping place
Emily Bront毛: Fall, leaves fall
George Eliot: Letter to Miss Maria Lewis, her old teacher
David Thoreau: Excursions (extract)
Thomas Hardy: The Woodlanders
Oscar Wilde: Symphony in Yellow
Melissa Harrison: All Among the Barley
Edward Thomas: Digging
Laurie Lee: Field of Autumn
Laurie Lee: Cider with Rosie
Ellen P Allerton: Indian Summer
Seamus Heaney: Postscript
Kenneth Grahame: Wind in the Willows

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Music Played

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

  • 00:00

    Amy Beach

    Dancing Leaves

    Performer: Kirsten Johnson.
    • Guild.
  • 00:02

    Jonathan Dove

    Invocation (The Passing of the Year)

    Performer: Jonathan Dove. Choir: VOCES8.
    • Equinox.
    • VCM Records.
    • 08.
  • 00:04

    George Gershwin

    A Foggy Day (In London Town)

    Lyricist: Ira Gershwin. Singer: Fred Astaire.
    • Fred Astaire Selected Favorites Volume 1.
    • Charly Records.
    • 8.
  • 00:07

    Kurt Weill

    September Song

    Music Arranger: Paul Bateman. Performer: Daniel Hope. Performer: Jacques Ammon. Orchestra: Z眉rcher Kammerorchester.
    • Daniel Hope For Seasons.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.
  • 00:10

    Elena Kats鈥怌hernin

    Green Leaf (Wild Swans)

    Singer: Jane Sheldon. Orchestra: Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Ola Rudner.
    • Wild Swans.
    • Decca Music Group Ltd..
    • 1.
  • 00:12

    B茅la Bart贸k

    Night Music (Out of Doors)

    Performer: Can 脟akmur.
    • Beethoven, Schubert, Haydn & Others: Piano Works.
    • BIS.
    • 504.
  • 00:14

    Francis Poulenc

    The Bad Mushroom (The Story of Babar, the little elephant)

    Orchestra: Melbourne Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: John Lanchbery.
    • Naxos.
  • 00:16

    Antonio Vivaldi

    Violin Concerto in F 'Autumn' (3rd mvt La Caccia)

    Performer: Jeanne Lamon. Ensemble: Tafelmusik. Director: Jeanne Lamon.
    • Vivaldi: The Four Seasons: Tafelmusik, Lamon.
    • Sony Classical.
    • 9.
  • 00:19

    Scott Joplin

    Maple leaf rag for piano

    Performer: Dick Hyman.
    • Scott Joplin - Piano Works, 1899-1904.
    • RCA.
    • 1.
  • 00:22

    Frank Bridge

    The Dew Fairy (The Hour Glass)

    Performer: Sir Stephen Hough.
    • Stephen Hough's English Piano Album.
    • Hyperion.
    • 16.
  • 00:25

    John Williams

    Witches Dance (The Witches of Eastwick - Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)

    Conductor: John Williams.
    • The Witches of Eastwick (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack).
    • Rhino/Warner Records.
    • 14.
  • 00:29

    Ella Fitzgerald & Louis Armstrong

    Autumn in New York

    • Sophisticated Lady.
    • Wideline City Records.
    • 1.
  • 00:35

    York Bowen

    A Leaf from the Sky (Fragments from Hans Andersen)

    Performer: Nicolas Namoradze.
    • Hyperion.
  • 00:38

    Thomas Newman

    American Beauty - extract

    • American Beauty.
    • Geffen.
    • 8.
  • 00:41

    Archibald Joyce

    Autumn Song (Autumn Dream)

    Orchestra: RT脡 Concert Orchestra. Conductor: Andrew Penny.
    • Joyce: Orchestral Works.
    • MARCO POLO.
    • 3.
  • 00:44

    Howard Goodall

    Poppies (The Seasons Suite, Autumn)

    Performer: Bo啪idar Vukoti膰. Performer: Marianna Szymanowska. Ensemble: Tippett Quartet.
    • Howard Goodall The Seasons.
    • EMI Classics.
    • 4.
  • 00:49

    Joni Mitchell

    Urge for Going (With Strings) (Blue Sessions)

    • Blue 50 (Demos & Outtakes).
    • Rhino/Warner.
    • 1.
  • 00:54

    Richard Addinsell

    The Isle of Apples

    Music Arranger: Roy Douglas. Orchestra: 91福利社 Concert Orchestra. Conductor: Kenneth Alwyn.
    • Addinsell: Goodbye Mr. Chips / A Tale of Two Cities.
    • Marco-Polo.
    • 4.
  • 01:00

    Ralph Vaughan Williams

    From far, from eve and morning (On Wenlock Edge)

    Performer: Julius Drake. Singer: Nicky Spence. Ensemble: Piatti Quartet.
    • Hyperion.
  • 01:02

    Einojuhani Rautavaara

    Cantus Arcticus Op.61 (3rd mvt)

    Orchestra: Lahti Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Osmo V盲nsk盲.
    • Rautavaara: Angel of Light etc..
    • BIS.
    • 11.
  • 01:07

    George Butterworth

    The Banks of Green Willow

    Orchestra: Hall茅. Conductor: Mark Elder.
    • Butterworth/Delius: English Rhapsody: Halle, Elder.
    • Halle.
    • 4.

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