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Going through the Gate

Yasmin Mwanza and Sam Swann with Readings and Music go through the gates from the memorial to the metaphysical, taking us across fields and city walls

From the Secret Garden to the Trojan Horse, Shostakovich's Leningrad Symphony performed with the enemy at the gates to Franz Liszt's Dante Symphony and the Gates of Hell: today's selection of readings and music takes us through the gate. We'll hear folk songs about The Gallow Gate and the Old Garden Gate, readings about the gates of Manderley from Daphne du Maurier's novel Rebecca and the tollgates which are broken by the Rebecca riots in Llandeilo in 1843, and descriptions of the Watergate political scandal alongside music from the film All the President's Men.

Our readers are Yasmin Mwanza and Sam Swann.

Producer: Ruth Watts

Readings:

The Secret Garden – Frances Hodgson Burnett
Lady Chatterley – DH Lawrence
Rebecca – Daphne du Maurier
The Welsh: The Biography – Terry Breverton
The Third Kissing-Gate - Thomas Hardy
Early One Morning - Edward Thomas
Jane Eyre - Charlotte Brontë
The Woodlanders – Thomas Hardy
A Gate at the Stairs – Lorrie Moore
War and Peace – Leo Tolstoy
The Siege – Helen Dunmore
Beyond the Wall: East Germany 1949-1990 – Katya Hoyer
The Handmaid’s Tale – Margaret Atwood
All the President’s Men - Carl Bernstein and Bob Woodward
The Aeneid – Virgil
Herodotus: The Histories – translated by Tom Holland
Don Juan - Lord Byron
The History of England from the Accession of James II - Thomas Babbington Macaulay
The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame
Matthew 7:7-14 (NKJV)
Divine Comedy: Hell, Canto III – Dante
Poems by Number, 303 - Emily Dickinson
The Fellowship of the Ring – JRR Tolkien

Release date:

1 hour, 14 minutes

Music Played

Timings (where shown) are the time of the day

  • 18:45

    Philip Sparke

    Sunrise at Angel’s Gate

    Performer: UNCG Wind Ensemble, conducted by John R Locke.
    • The Centennial Collection: Vol. 5, Songs, Stories, and Dances.
    • Soundset EQ169.
    • Tr2.
  • Frances Hodgson Burnett

    Excerpt from The Secret Garden, read by Yasmin Mwanza

  • 18:49

    Amy Beach

    The Hermit Thrush at Eve

    Performer: Hiroko Ishimoto.
    • Pioneers: Piano works by Female Composers.
    • Grand Piano GP844.
    • Tr6.
  • DH Lawrence

    , Excerpt from Lady Chatterley's Lover, read by Sam Swann

  • 18:54

    Jean Sibelius

    Pelleas et Melisande - Op.46; no.1. At the castle gate

    Performer: Iceland Symphony Orchestra, Petri Sakari (conductor).
    • Sibelius - Incidental Music.
    • Chandos CHAN 10828 X.
    • Tr1.
  • Daphne Du Maurier

    Excerpt from Rebecca, read by Yasmin Mwanza

  • 18:59

    Franz Waxman

    Suite from 'Rebecca' (1940)

    Performer: Sinfonia of London Orchestra, John Wilson (conductor).
    • Hollywood Soundstage.
    • Chandos CHSA 5294.
    • Tr7.
  • Terry Breverton

    The Welsh: The Biography, read by Sam Swann

  • 19:03

    Trad.

    The Gallowgate Lad

    Performer: The Unthanks.
    • Last.
    • Rough Trade RTRADDA617.
    • Tr2.
  • Thomas Hardy

    The Third Kissing-Gate, read by Yasmin Mwanza

  • 19:06

    Pyotr Tchaikovsky

    Tchaikovsky: 50 Russian Folk Songs, TH 176 - 48. By the Gates

    Performer: Valentina Lisitsa (piano), Alexei Kuznetsoff (piano).
    • Classics for Autumn: Tchaikovsky.
    • UMG 00602445056484.
    • Tr25.
  • Edward Thomas - Early One Morning

    Early One Morning, read by Sam Swann

  • 19:07

    Ralph Vaughan Williams

    Symphony No. 3, "Pastoral Symphony": I. Molto moderato

    Performer: Halle Orchestra, Mark Elder (conductor).
    • Vaughan Williams Complete Symphonies.
    • Chandos/Halle CDHLD7557 / CD HLL 7540.
    • CD3,Tr2.
  • Charlotte Bronte

    Excerpt from Jane Eyre, read by Yasmin Mwanza

  • 19:10

    Trad.

    The Old Garden Gate

    Performer: June Tabor.
    • Apples.
    • Topic 888003112698.
    • Tr2.
  • Thomas Hardy

    Excerpt from The Woodlanders, read by Sam Swann

  • 19:13

    Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Die Zauberflöte, Act.2 Scene.28 Tamino Mein

    Performer: Berlin Academy for Early Music (orchestra), Marlis Petersen (soprano), Daniel Behle (tenor), Rene Jacobs (conductor), RIAS Chamber Choir.
    • Mozart: Die Zauberflote.
    • Harmonia Mundi HMC 902068.70.
    • Tr9.
  • Lorrie Moore

    Excerpt from A Gate at the Stairs, read by Yasmin Mwanza

  • 19:17

    Modest Mussorgsky

    The Great Gate of Kyiv/La grande porte de Kyiv

    Performer: Berlin Philharmonic, Sir Simon Rattle (conductor).
    • Mussorgsky: Pictures at an Exhibition (orch. Ravel).
    • EMI 509995 17582 2 6.
    • Tr15.
  • Leo Tolstoy, Rosemary Edmonds(translator)

    Excerpt from War and Peace, read by Sam Swann

  • 19:21

    Dmitry Shostakovich

    Symphony No. 7 in C major, Op. 60, I. Allegretto

    Orchestra: Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Vasily Petrenko.
    • Symphony No. 7 "Leningrad".
    • Naxos 8573057.
    • Tr1.
  • Helen Dunmore

    Excerpt from The Siege, read by Yasmin Mwanza

  • 19:23

    Dave Brubeck

    Brandenberg Gate

    Performer: The Dave Brubeck Quartet.
    • Gone with the Wind.
    • Efor S.L. 885686589434.
    • Tr11.
  • Katya Hoyer

    Excerpt from Beyond the Wall: East Germany 1949-1990, read by Sam Swann

  • 19:26

    Ludwig van Beethoven

    Beethoven: Symphony No. 9 in D Minor, Op. 125 "Choral": I. Allegro ma non troppo, un poco maestoso (Live)

    Performer: Members of the Orchestra of the Kirow-Theatre Leningrad, Members of the London Symphony Orchestra, Members of the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra, Members of the Staatskapelle Dresden, Members Of The London Symphony Orchestra, Members Of The New.
    • Ode To Freedom - Bernstein in Berlin: Beethoven Symphony No. 9.
    • Deutsche Grammophon 00028942986121.
    • Tr4.
  • Margaret Atwood

    Excerpt from The Handmaid’s Tale, read by Yasmin Mwanza

  • 19:29

    Suzi Quatro

    Devil Gate Drive

    • The Wild One: The Greatest Hits.
    • Chrysalis Records CHR 4036.
    • Tr4.
  • 19:30

    David Shire

    All The President's Men (1976) - Creep Sequence 1

    Performer: David Shire Orchestra, David Shire (conductor).
    • Klute / All The President's Men.
    • FSM Vol.10 No.16 63855 80246 2 1.
    • Tr37.
  • Carl Bernstein and Bob Woodward

    Excerpt from All the President’s Men, read by Sam Swann

  • Carl Bernstein and Bob Woodward

    2nd excerpt from All the President’s Men, read by Sam Swann

  • 19:32

    Antonio Vivaldi

    Concerto For Two Trumpets In C Major Allegro

    Performer: I Solisti di Zagreb (ensemble) Helmut Wobisch and Adolf Holler (trumpets), Antonio Janigro (conductor).
    • Vivaldi in Film.
    • Menuetto Classics 4803309970.
    • Tr12.
  • Virgil, W.F. Jackson Knight (translator)

    Excerpt from The Aeneid, read by Yasmin Mwanza

  • 19:35

    James Horner

    The Wooden Horse and the Sacking of Troy

    Performer: James Horner (conductor).
    • Music From The Motion Picture Troy.
    • Warner Sunset/Reprise 093624879862.
    • Tr10.
  • Herodotus, Tom Holland (Translator)

    Excerpt from The Histories, read by Sam Swann

  • 19:37

    James Horner

    The Wooden Horse and the Sacking of Troy

    Performer: James Horner (conductor).
    • Music From The Motion Picture Troy.
    • Warner Sunset/Reprise 093624879862.
    • Tr10.
  • Lord Byron

    Excerpt from Don Juan, read by Yasmin Mwanza

  • Thomas Babbington Macaulay

    Excerpt from The History of England from the Accession of James II, read by Sam Swann

  • 19:38

    Anna von Hausswolff

    Outside the Gate (For Bruna)

    Performer: Anna von Hausswolff.
    • All Thoughts Fly.
    • Southern Lord LORD 280.
    • Tr7.
  • Kenneth Grahame

    Excerpt from The Wind in the Willows. read by Sam Swann

  • 19:43

    Henry Purcell

    Purcell: Theodosius, or The Force of Love: The gate to bliss

    Performer: Judith Nelson (soprano), Emma Kirby (soprano), Academy of Ancient Music (orchestra), Christopher Hogwood (conductor).
    • Purcell: Theatre Music.
    • Decca Music Group 00028947552925.
    • Tr2.
  • New King James Version Bible

    Matthew, Ch.7, vv:7-14 read by Yasmin Mwanza

  • 19:46

    James MacMillan

    Bring Us, O Lord God

    Performer: Choir of The Queen’s College, Oxford, Owen Rees (conductor).
    • Signum Classics SIGCD475.
    • Tr8.
  • 19:50

    Franz Liszt

    Dante Symphony, S. 109: Ia. Inferno. Lento - Un poco più accelerando

    Performer: BBC Philharmonic Orchestra, conducted by Gianandrea Noseda.
    • Liszt: Symphonic Poems, Vol. 5.
    • Chandos CHAN 10524.
    • Tr1.
  • Dante Alighieri

    Divine Comedy - Hell, Canto III, read by Sam Swann

  • Emily Dickinson –

    Poems by Number 303, read by Yasmin Mwanza

  • 19:53

    Sheryl Crow

    Redemption Day

    Performer: Johnny Cash.
    • American VI: Ain't No Grave.
    • American Recordings 06025731562.
    • Tr2.
  • J.R.R. Tolkien

    Excerpt from The Fellowship of the Ring, A Journey in the Dark, read by Sam Swann

  • 19:56

    Richard Wagner

    Entrance of the Gods into Valhalla from Scene IV of Das Rheingold 

    Performer: Simon Bolivar Symphony Orchestra of Venezuela, Gustavo Dudamel (conductor).
    • Wagner - Dudamel.
    • 3614590009908.
    • Tr2.

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