Track Listing

1. Ecclesiastes 3: 1-8 (King James Version) Attributed to King Solomon (read by Geoffrey Palmer) / Music: Vivaldi - Concerto \x{2018}In Due Cori\x{2019} - 2nd movement (excerpt)
2. Sonnet 18 by William Shakespeare (read by Joanna Lumley) / Music: Beethoven - Piano Sonata No.8 (excerpt)
3. Home Thoughts From Abroad by Robert Browning (read by Geoffrey Palmer) / Music: Dvorak - Symphony No.9 (excerpt)
4. Friendship by Elizabeth Jennings (read by Alison Steadman) / Music: Beethoven - Piano Concerto No.5 - 2nd Movement (excerpt)
5. A Red, Red Rose by Robert Burns (read by Brian Cox) / Music: Austin Ince & Frankie Hepburn - Colonel Robertson (excerpt)
6. I Wandered Lonely As A Cloud by William Wordsworth (read by Honor Blackman) / Music: Tchaikovsky - Piano Concerto No.1 - 2nd Movement (excerpt)
7. On The Balcony by D.H. Lawrence (read by Anthony Head) / Music: Grieg - Last Spring (excerpt)
8. Business Girls by John Betjeman (read by Joanna Lumley) / Music: Business Girls by John Betjeman / Music: Satie - Gymnopedie No.2 (excerpt)
9. To Autumn by John Keats (read by Ben Whishaw) / Music: Borodin - Symphony No.2 - 3rd Movement (excerpt)
10. Sonnets From The Portuguese by Elizabeth Barrett Browning (read by Lindsay Duncan) / Music: Mozart - Symphony No.50 - 3rd Movement (excerpt)
11. Mozart - Symphony No.50 - 3rd Movement (excerpt) (read by Martin Shaw) / Music: Verdi - La Forza Del Destino (excerpt)
12. Do Not Stand At My Grave And Weep by Mary Frye (read by Miriam Margolyes) / Music: Tchaikovosky - Variations on a Rocco Theme Op.33 (excerpt)
13. Diary Of A Church Mouse by John Betjeman (read by Martin Shaw) / Music: Bach - Sleepers Awake (excerpt)
14. Come Walk With Me by Emily Brontë (read by Samantha Morton) / Music: Dvorak - Waltz No.1 from Opus 54 (excerpt)
15. The Lady Of Shalott by Lord Alfred Tenyson (read by Brian Cox) / Music: Stephen Darrell Smith & Dan Smith - The Great Glen
16. One Flesh by Elizabeth Jennings (read by Honor Blackman) / Music: One Flesh by Elizabeth Jennings
17. He Wishes For The Cloths Of Heaven by W.B. Yeats (read by Lennie James) / Music: Mahler - Symphony No.3 - 6th Movement (excerpt)
18. Sonnet 116 by William Shakespeare (read by Lennie James) / Music: Mahler - Symphony No.3 - 6th Movement (excerpt)
19. Stop All The Clocks by W.H. Auden (read by Lindsay Duncan) / Music: Mahler - Symphony No.1 - 3rd Movement (excerpt)
20. Adlestrop by Edward Thomas (read by Geoffrey Palmer) / Music: Vaughan Williams - The Lark Ascending (excerpt)
21. When We Two Parted by Lord Byron (read by Brian Cox) / Music: Tchaikovosky - Symphony No.5 - 2nd Movement (excerpt)
22. Dulce Et Decorum Est by Wilfred Owen (read by Ben Whishaw) / Music: Beethoven - Symphony No.7 - 2nd Movement (excerpt)
23. Silver by Walter de la Mare (read by Miriam Margolyes) / Music: Chopin - Nocturne in C sharp minor (excerpt)
24. She Walks In Beauty by Lord Byron (read by Martin Shaw) / Music: Grieg - Peer Gynt Suite No.2 - 4th Movement (excerpt)
25. Rock Me To Sleep by Elizabeth Akers Allen (read by Alison Steadman) / Music: Schubert - Rosamunde (excerpt)
26. Remember by Christina Rossetti (read by Anthony Head) / Music: Sor - Allegretto (excerpt)
27. Last Post by Carol Ann Duffy (read by Samantha Morton) / Music: Satie - Gymnopedie No.3 (excerpt)

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #46 in Music
• Released on: 2009-11-16
• Number of discs: 1
• Dimensions: .22 pounds
• Running time: 49 minutes