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| Andersen's Musical Tales | ...HANS CHRISTIAN ANDERSEN was as interested in music and drama as he was in literature. Andrew McGregor talks to musicologist, Anna Harwell Celenza, about Andersen's thoughts on music and the musicians he met, and the resultant influence on his writing. With readings from Michael Maloney... |
| Bbc Proms 2005 | ...Fairy tales open and close this Prom, with Lyadov's trilogy of folk-infused tone poems and Stravinsky's ballet inspired by HANS CHRISTIAN ANDERSEN. Oliver Knussen's settings of four Walt Whitman poems contrast with a new dark and wild orchestral piece from leading German-born composer Detlev Glanert.... |
| Bbc Proms | ...The Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra is conducted by its new principal conductor Kirill Karabits in Stravinsky's HANS CHRISTIAN ANDERSEN-inspired ballet, The Fairy's Kiss, a work paying tribute to the memory of Tchaikovsky.... |
| Chosen For Christmas | ...5: Judi Dench reads `The Snow Queen' by HANS CHRISTIAN ANDERSEN ... |
| Composer Of The Week | ...HANS CHRISTIAN ANDERSEN (bass)... |
| Fantastic Tales | ...by HANS CHRISTIAN ANDERSEN. A wise scholar grants his shadow freedom, releasing him into society to live as a man. But his act of generosity goes badly awry. Read by Peter Capaldi ... |
| Granada | ...By HANS CHRISTIAN ANDERSEN. Andersen's visit to Granada in the 1860s brought out some stark contrasts - the gaiety of the street festivals and the strange menace of the Alhambra... Read by Hugh Dickson ... |
| I Have Heard The Mermaids Singing | ...The legend of the mermaid is said to date back to the days when sailors far from home would mistake sea mammals like manatees and dugongs for semi-human creatures. Since the days of Homer, the image of the mysterious female luring sailors to their deaths has remained extremely powerful in the popular imagination, and has survived numerous reinventions over the centuries. With the help of the likes of HANS CHRISTIAN ANDERSEN and Walt Disney, mermaids have become as much a mainstay of modern childhood as pirates and princesses.... |
| In Search Of Hans Christian Andersen | |
| Opera On 3 | ...In a performance given at 2009's Glyndebourne Festival, Jiri Belohlavek conducts a production of Rusalka, Dvorak's best-known opera. It's the first time in its history that the famous festival has staged this tale, loosely based on HANS CHRISTIAN ANDERSEN's The Little Mermaid, but translated into a Czech idiom.... |
| Reading Aloud | ...`Granada'. HANS CHRISTIAN ANDERSEN's visit to the city in the 1860s brought out some stark contrasts - the gaiety of the street festivals and the strange menace of the Alhambra. Read by Hugh Dickson ... |
| Stage And Screen | ...Edward Seckerson celebrates the legacy of the great Broadway composer with his widow, the singer Jo Sullivan, including music from The Most Happy Fella, Guys and Dolls, Greenwillow, Where's Charley and HANS CHRISTIAN ANDERSEN ... |
| Tale Teller For Our Times, A | ...Poet Ruth Padel investigates why HANS CHRISTIAN ANDERSEN's fairy tales still speak to us now and what they tell us about the man who wrote them.... |
| Tales From The Statue | ...Where can you hear a raven enter a whale's belly, seven sisters climbing down a well, and meet your heart's desire? In Manhattan's Central Park at the HANS CHRISTIAN ANDERSEN Statue. In Tales From The Statue, one of the UK's top storytellers, Sally Pomme Clayton, brings us some of the best stories told in Central Park. She also reveals why we need stories now more than ever.... |
| Tchaikovsky Experience, The | ...In HANS CHRISTIAN ANDERSEN's fairy tale, a Chinese emperor is enraptured with the beautiful singing of his treasured nightingale. Completed between 1908 and 1914, Stravinsky's charming setting starts off with rich and subtly blended sonorities but soon enters a modernist world of brash and striking colours.... |
| Verb, The | ...Stig Dalager, one of Denmark's greatest living writers, has just had his first novel published in English. It's been heralded as a masterpiece, and is a fictional account of the complex life and loves of another Danish master storyteller - HANS CHRISTIAN ANDERSEN. Ian Mcmillan talks to Stig in his first British interview.... |
| Words And Music | ...A selection of poetry and music on the theme of monsters, with readings by Don Warrington and Carolyn Pickles. Including works by Jack Mapanje, Christina Rossetti, Seamus Heaney, Yeats, HANS CHRISTIAN ANDERSEN, Robert Browning, Sylvia Plath, Brian Patten, Carol Ann Duffy, Tennyson and Ted Hughes, and music including Grieg, Knussen and Schubert. NB: This broadcast starts at approximately 22.50... |
| Write Stuff, The | ...HANS CHRISTIAN ANDERSEN... |