Birds, beasts & flowers : a programme of poetry, prose & music.

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Corporate Authors: Wallace Collection (Musical group), Orquestra Gulbenkian, English Symphony Orchestra (London, England), English String Orchestra, Österreichisch-ungarische Haydnphilharmonie, BBC Welsh Symphony Orchestra
Other Authors: Grace, Princess of Monaco, 1929-1982, Pasco, Richard, Carroll, John, 1923-, Wright, Simon (Conductor), Swierczewski, Michel, 1955-, Perlemuter, Vlado, Boughton, William, 1948-, Fischer, Ádám, 1949-, Otaka, Tadaaki, 1947-
Language:English
Published: Wyastone Leys, Monmouth : Nimbus Records, [1992], ℗1980.
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Table of Contents:
  • From Auguries of innocence / William Blake ; Canzon à 10. Sacrae symphoniae / Gabrieli (1:37)
  • From The history of the flood / John Heath-Stubbs ; The unanswered question / Ives (4:43)
  • From Miracles / Walt Whitman ; The unanswered question : (cont.) / Ives (1:23)
  • Humming-bird / D.H. Lawrence (1:04)
  • The tyger / William Blake (1:12)
  • In those tropical forests / Mary Kingsley ; The babiaantje / F.T. Prince ; Oiseaux tristes : from Miroirs / Ravel (2:33)
  • From Animals and men / Kenneth Clark (:40)
  • From In the caves of the Auvergne / W.J. Turner ; Fanfare for the common man / Copland (3:41)
  • From Animals and men (:35)
  • Mountain lion / D.H. Lawrence (3:43)
  • The snare / James Stephens ; Chamber symphony : op. 110a, mvts. I & II / Shostakovich (2:21)
  • From Hurt hawks / Robinson Jeffers ; Chamber symphony : (cont.) / Shostakovich (2:21)
  • The eagle / Alfred Tennyson ; Chamber symphony : (cont.) / Shostakovich (1:18)
  • The question / Percy Bysshe Shelley (2:30)
  • Spring (1:09) ; Pied beauty (:42) / Gerard Manley Hopkins
  • The proud horse : from Venus and Adonis / William Shakespeare (1:17)
  • Variations on a theme of Frank Bridge : op. 10. Aria italiana / Britten (1:19)
  • Honorable cat / Paul Gallico ; Variations on a theme of Frank Bridge : op. 10. Chant / Britten (1:33)
  • The span of life / Robert Frost
  • Cats sleep anywhere / Eleanor Farjeon (:21)
  • Engraved on the collar of a dog which I gave to His Royal Highness / Alexander Pope ; March for the Royal Society of Musicians / Haydn (1:37)
  • The owl and the pussy-cat (1:32) ; The pelican chorus (3:57) / Edward Lear
  • A story about St. Francis of Assisi told by Princess Grace (1:03)
  • St. Francis and the birds / Seamus Heaney ; The lark ascending / Vaughan Williams (2:44)
  • St. Francis / Humbert Wolfe (1:47)
  • Proud songsters / Thomas Hardy ; The lark ascending / Vaughan Williams (1:00)
  • A bird's epitaph / Martin Armstrong ; The lark ascending : (cont.) / Vaughan Williams (:33)
  • Dorothy Osborne in a letter to Sir William Temple July 1653 (:48)
  • Ask me no more / Thomas Carew (1:05)
  • On a rosebud sent to her lover / 17th century anon. (:30)
  • On a rose / William Browne (1:02)
  • Sonnet LIV / William Shakespeare (:49)
  • The damask rose / 17th century herbal (:40)
  • The garden / Andrew Marvell (3:53)
  • Binsey poplars (felled 1879) / Gerard Manley Hopkins (1:52)
  • The redwoods / Louis Simpson ; Appalachian spring / Copland (2:58)
  • From Song of myself / Walt Whitman (:42)
  • Four things / The King James Bible (:33)
  • Come into my animal presence / Denise Levertov ; Vocalise, op. 34, no. 14 / Rakhmaninov (1:55)
  • From The heaven of animals / James Dickey ; Vocalise : (cont.) / Rakhmaninov (2:49)
  • From Psalm 104 ; Vocalise : (cont.) / Rakhmaninov (1:11).