The Lark and the Nightingale
Playlist (texts read & music played)
- Ralph Vaughan Williams: The Lark Ascending (in 4 parts), with faded overlaps
(Pinchas Zukerman, English Chamber Orchestra under Daniel Barenboim)
- George Meredith: The Lark Ascending
- Frederick Delius: Summer Night on the River
- George Butterworth: The Banks of Green Willow
- Edward Thomas: Adlestrop
- John Clare: The Skylark
- Virginia Woolf: The Waves (an extract)
- Shakespeare: Romeo and Juliet (a quote)
- Shakespeare: Sonnet 29 (an extract)
- William Wordsworth: To a Skylark
- Percy Bysshe Shelley: To a Skylark
- Song of a skylark
- Song of a nightingale
- Samuel Coleridge: The Nightingale
- BBC May 19, 1942: recording of a nightingale against Lancaster bombers
- Michael Spitzer: The Musical Human (an extract)
- Ovid: Metamorphoses (from Book 6)
- T.S. Eliot: The Waste Land (an extract)
- John Keats: Ode to a Nightingale (an extract)
- Percy Bysshe Shelley: Defence of Poetry (an extract)
- Ottorino Respighi: The Nightingale (from his suite The Birds)
- Ottorino Respighi: The Pines of the Janiculum (an extract), from The Pines of Rome
- Paul Verlaine: Le Rossignol
- Erik Satie: ironic comment on a female singer
- Nat King Cole: A Nightingale sang in Berkeley Square
