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Scents and Perfumes

From roses to rotting rubbish, chrysanthemums in DH Lawrence to cyanide in a Poirot story: today's programme conjures our sense of smell with music from Ellington to Gounod.

Tom Hollander and Anna Maxwell Martin reading prose and verse, from roses to rotting rubbish, from Marie Antionette's perfume to Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet, from chrysanthemums in DH Lawrence to cyanide in a Poirot story: today's programme conjures our sense of smell with music from Duke Ellington, Chopin, Gustav Holst, Edith Piaf to Gounod.

Producer: Juan Carlos Jaramillo

READINGS:
Scent of Irises by DH Lawrence
Scent by Yrsa Daley-Ward
Havisham by Carol Ann Duffy
Swann鈥檚 Way by Marcel Proust
My Mother's Perfume by Pascale Petit
Ars Poetica XVI, from the collection Bright Fear, by Mary Jean Chan
As A Perfume by Arthur Symons
Exotic Fragrance, from Les Fleurs du mal, by Charles Baudelaire
Odour Of Chrysanthemums by D.H. Lawrence
Romeo and Juliet by Shakespeare
Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys
Perfume by Patrick Suskind
Elixir by Theresa Levitt
The Adventure in the Egyptian Tomb by Agatha Christie
The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole, Aged 13戮 by Sue Townsend
Song of Myself by Walt Whitman

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Music Played

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

  • 00:02

    Felix Mendelssohn

    String Quintet in B flat, Op.87 (3rd mvt)

    Ensemble: Academy of St Martin in the Fields Chamber Ensemble.
  • 00:07

    Fr茅d茅ric Chopin

    Prelude in D minor, Op.28 no.24

    Performer: Martha Argerich.
  • 00:11

    Thea Hjelmeland

    Perfume

  • 00:12

    脡dith Piaf

    L'Accordioniste

  • 00:17

    Reynaldo Hahn

    L'heure exquise (Chansons grises)

    Singer: Philippe Jaroussky. Performer: J茅r么me Ducros.
  • 00:21

    Maurice Ravel

    Les entretiens de la belle et de la b锚te (Ma m猫re l'oye)

    Orchestra: Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Yannick N茅zet鈥怱茅guin.
  • 00:25

    Michael Nyman

    Franklyn (Wonderland)

    Performer: Jeremy Limb.
  • 00:28

    Duke Ellington and His Orchestra

    Balcony Serenade (Perfume Suite)

  • 00:32

    Richard Wagner

    Overture: The Flying Dutchman

    Orchestra: Chicago Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Georg Solti.
  • 00:36

    Paddy Glackin

    The Plains of Boyle / Cronin's Hornpipe

  • 00:39

    Nino Rota

    Juliet (Romeo and Juliet)

    Orchestra: The City of Prague Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Nic Raine.
  • 00:42

    Charles Gounod

    Romeo et Juliette (Act IV, excerpt)

    Singer: Rolando Villaz贸n. Singer: Anna Netrebko. Orchestra: Staatskapelle Dresden. Conductor: Nicola Luisotti.
  • 00:48

    John Rutter

    The Gift of Life (The Tree of Life)

    Choir: The Cambridge Singers. Conductor: John Rutter.
  • 00:56

    Jean鈥怓茅ry Rebel

    Le Chaos (Les Elemens)

    Ensemble: Pygmalion. Conductor: Rapha毛l Pichon.
  • 01:00

    Jean鈥怭hilippe Rameau

    Air pour les esclaves Africains (Les Indes galantes)

    Ensemble: Le Concert des Nations. Conductor: Jordi Savall.
  • 01:03

    Francisco Guerrero

    Surge propera amica mea

    Choir: Tallis Scholars. Conductor: Peter Phillips.
  • 01:08

    Gustav Holst

    Walt Whitman Overture

    Orchestra: 成人快手 Concert Orchestra. Conductor: Owain Arwel Hughes.

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