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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, poetry from Helen Mort, who confronts her father's old age, and 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’s Rebecca soon to be on Radio 4 and BBC Sounds; and Isis Hainsworth, recently on the West End stage in Tom Stoppard's Arcadia.

Produced in Salford by Jessica Treen

Readings:
Edith Nesbit – The Railway Children
Nancy B Reich - Clara Schumann: The Artist and the Woman
John Milton - To the Lady Margaret Ley
Naomi Ayala - My Dad Says
Jane Austen - Pride and Prejudice
Virginia Woolf - Leslie Stephenson
WB Yeats - A Prayer for My Daughter
Avril Coleridge-Taylor - The Heritage of Samuel Coleridge-Taylor suggested by Avril's biographer Leah Broad
Dodie Smith – I Capture the Castle
Ian McMillan - Pushing, May 1984
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie – Purple Hibiscus
William Shakespeare - King Lear
The Brothers Grimm - The Singing, Soaring Lark
John McGahern - Amongst Women
Helen Mort – Glyderau
Lord Byron - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage (extract)
Judith Kerr – The Tiger Who Came to Tea

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

  • Edvard Grieg

    4 Symphonic dances Op.64

    Conductor: Ari Rasilainen. Performer: Norwegian Radio Orchestra.
    • Finlandia.
    • 8573-87777-2.

  • The Railway Children by Edith Nesbit, read by Isis Hainsworth

  • (Trad)

    Blackwell Merry Night

    Performer: Martin and Eliza Carthy.
    • Topic.
    • TSCD587.

  • Clara Schumann: The Artist and the Woman by Nancy B Reich, read by Sam Dale

  • To the Lady Margaret Ley by John Milton, read by Sam Dale

  • Ravi Shankar

    TRANSMIGRATION

    Performer: Ravi Shankar.
    • WORLD NETWORK MUSIC.
    • 1C-11067.

  • My Dad Says by Naomi Ayala, read by Isis Hainsworth

  • Anoushka Shankar

    Traces Of You

    Performer: Anoushka Shankar.
    • Decca.
    • CD01.

  • Dario Marianelli

    Dawn

    Performer: Jeneba Kanneh‐Mason.
    • Sony.
    • G010005641311J.

  • Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen, read by Sam Dale

  • Giacomo Puccini

    Gianni Schicchi - opera in 1 act [no.3 of "Il trittico"]

    Conductor: Stephen Barlow. Performer: Kiri Te Kanawa. Performer: London Symphony Orchestra.
    • DECCA.
    • 475-459-2.

  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Prelude and fugue from Das Wohltemperierte Klavier, bk.1 no. 1 in C major BWV.846

    Performer: Sir András Schiff.
    • ECM RECORDS.
    • 476-6991.

  • Leslie Stephenson by Virginia Woolf, read by Isis Hainsworth

  • A Prayer For My Daughter by W.B. Yeats, read by Sam Dale

  • Avril Coleridge-Taylor

    Can sorrow find me? for voice and piano

    Performer: Alexandra Mackenzie.
    • Delphian Records.
    • DCD34306.

  • The Heritage of Samuel Coleridge-Taylor by Avril Coleridge-Taylor, read by Isis Hainsworth

  • COLSON, KEVIN AND DIANA MORRISON

    THE FIRST MAN YOU REMEMBER

    Music Arranger: N/A.
    • REALLY USEFUL/POLYDOR.
    • 841 126-2.

  • Claude Debussy

    Children's corner, arr. for orchestra [orig. for piano]

    Performer: Angela Hewitt.
    • Hyperion.
    • CDA67898.

  • I Capture The Castle by Dodie Smith, read by Isis Hainsworth

  • Claude Debussy

    Children's corner, arr. for orchestra [orig. for piano]

    Performer: Angela Hewitt.
    • Hyperion.
    • CDA67898.

  • WAINWRIGHT III, LOUDON

    YOU NEVER PHONE

    Music Arranger: N/A.
    • SANCTUARY.
    • SANCD-197.

  • John Alden Carpenter

    Adventures in a perambulator - suite

    Conductor: John McLaughlin Williams. Performer: National Symphony Orchestra of Ukraine.
    • Naxos.
    • 8.559065.

  • Pushing, May 1984 by Ian McMillan, read by Sam Dale

  • Purple Hibiscus by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, read by Isis Hainsworth

  • Alexander Tsfasman

    Es tut mir leid

    Performer: Dana Zemtsov. Performer: Mikhail Zemtsov.
    • Channel Classics.
    • CCS44523.

  • Hector Berlioz

    Le Roi Lear - overture Op.4

    Performer: London Symphony Orchestra.
    • Philips.
    • 4164302.

  • King Lear by Shakespeare, read by Isis Hainsworth & Sam Dale

  • Maurice Ravel

    Ma mere l'oye - ballet

    Conductor: François‐Xavier Roth. Performer: Les Siècles.
    • Harmonia Mundi :.
    • HMM905281.

  • The Singing, Soaring Lark by The Brothers Grimm, read by Isis Hainsworth

  • Rhiannon Giddens

    Moonshiner's Daughter

    • Nonesuch Records.
    • N/A.

  • Gustav Holst

    The Planets - suite Op.32

    Conductor: Andrew Davis. Performer: BBC Philharmonic Orchestra.
    • CHANDOS.
    • CHSA-5086.

  • Amongst Women by John McGahern, read by Sam Dale

  • Glyderau by Helen Mort, read by Isis Hainsworth

  • Patrick Allen

    Juliet's Lullaby

    Performer: Patrick Allen.
    • Orchid Classics.
    • ORC100220.

  • Childe Harold's Pilgrimage by Lord Byron, read by Sam Dale

  • Pauline Viardot

    Le Dernier sorcier - opera in 2 acts

    Performer: Matilda Lloyd.
    • Chandos.
    • CHSA5321.

  • Manuel Garcia

    Dices bien querida mia

    Performer: Ainhoa Garmendia. Performer: Carol Garcia. Performer: Christophe Rousset. Performer: Spanish National Orchestra.
    • Chandos.
    • N/A.

  • Samuel Coleridge‐Taylor

    Othello - suite Op.79

    Conductor: Fawzi Haimor. Performer: Chineke! Orchestra.
    • DECCA.
    • 4853322.

  • The Tiger Who Came To Tea by Judith Kerr, read by Sam Dale

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