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

• H. Wood

  The Big Show Coming, Scott Handy (reader)

• 00:00

  Arthur Benjamin

  Fanfare for a Festive Occasion

  Performer: Locke Brass Consort, James Stobart (director)

  • CHAN 6573 Tr2.

• William Makepeace Thackeray

  A May Day Ode (extract), Catherine Harvey (reader)

• 00:02

  Dmitry Shostakovich

  Festive Overture

  Performer: London Philharmonic Orchestra, Andrew Litton (conductor)

  • VIRGIN VC 790784-2 Tr1.

• Robert Hunt

  ‘The Glass Fountain’ from Companion to the Official Catalogue – Synopsis of the Contents of the Great Exhibition of 1851, Scott Handy & Catherine Harvey (readers)

• 00:09

  Thomas Morley

  Hard by a Crystal Fountain

  Performer: I Fagiolini, Robert Hollingworth (director)

  • CHAN 0682 Tr27.

• Robert Herrick

  To the Water Nymphs, Drinking at the Fountain, Scott Handy (reader)

• 00:12

  Frédéric Chopin

  Impromptu in A flat major, Op.29 No.1

  Performer: Leif Ove Andsnes (piano)

  • EMI 341682-2 Tr7.

• Sara Teasdale

  The Crystal Gazer, Catherine Harvey (reader)

• Robert Hunt

  ‘Locomotive Engines’ from Companion to the Official Catalogue – Synopsis of the Contents of the Great Exhibition of 1851, Scott Handy (reader)

• 00:16

  George Antheil

  Ballet pour instruments mecanique et percussion (Roll Three)

  Performer: New Palais Royale Orchestra & Percussion Ensemble, Maurice Peress (conductor)

  • MUSIC MASTERS 67094-2 Tr6.

• William Carlos Williams

  Overture to a Dance of Locomotives, Catherine Harvey (reader)

• 00:24

  Arthur Bliss

  Fanfare for a Dignified Occasion

  Performer: Locke Brass Consort, James Stobart (director)

  • CHAN 6573 Tr1.

• Charles Mackay

  The Festival of Labour. Opening of the Great Exhibition of 1851, Scott Handy (reader)

• 00:24

  Alexander Mosolov

  Iron Foundry

  Performer: Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, Riccardo Chailly (conductor)

  • DECCA 436 640-2 Tr1.

• Robert Hunt

  ‘Ceylon’ from Companion to the Official Catalogue – Synopsis of the Contents of the Great Exhibition of 1851, Catherine Harvey (reader)

• 00:27

  Antonín Dvořák

  Andante con moto (Cypresses, B.152 No.3)

  Performer: Emerson String Quartet

  • DG 477 8765 CD2 Tr7.

• Thomas Moore

  Rich and Rare Were the Gems She Wore, Scott Handy (reader)

• Robert Hunt

  ‘Gallery West End – The Grand Organ’ from Companion to the Official Catalogue – Synopsis of the Contents of the Great Exhibition of 1851, Scott Handy (reader)

• 00:30

  Marcel Dupré

  Cortege et Litanie, Op.19 No.2

  Performer: Michael Murray (organ – St Sulpice, Paris)

  • TELARC CD 80516 Tr5.

• Marie Tello Phillips

  When the Organ Plays, Catherine Harvey (reader)

• 00:35

  Michael Tippett

  Fanfare for Brass

  Performer: Locke Brass Consort, James Stobart (director)

  • CHAN 6573 Tr9.

• John Davidson

  The Crystal Palace, Scott Handy & Catherine Harvey (readers)

• 00:37

  György Ligeti

  Clocks and Clouds

  Performer: ASKO, Schoenberg Ensemble, Reinbert de Leeuw (director)

  • TELDEC 8573 87631-2 Tr3.

• Robert Hunt

  ‘Central South Gallery – Important Scientific Arrangement’ from Companion to the Official Catalogue – Synopsis of the Contents of the Great Exhibition of 1851, Scott Handy (reader)

• Ralph Waldo Emerson

  The Barometer, Catherine Harvey (reader)

• 00:51

  Harrison Birtwistle

  Refrains and Choruses (1957)

  Performer: Netherlands Wind Ensemble

  • ETCETERA KTC 1130 Tr2.

• Robert Hunt

  ‘Near the Entrance – Animals of the Indian Jungles’ from Companion to the Official Catalogue – Synopsis of the Contents of the Great Exhibition of 1851, Catherine Harvey (reader)

• Douglas Stewart

  Leopard Skin, Scott Handy (reader)

• Robert Hunt

  ‘Turkey’ from Companion to the Official Catalogue – Synopsis of the Contents of the Great Exhibition of 1851, Scott Handy (reader)

• Samuel Johnson

  To Miss —: On Her Giving the Author a Gold and Silk Net-work Purse, Catherine Harvey (reader)

• 00:59

  Béla Bartók

  In Oriental Style (Mikrokosmos, Book 2)

  Performer: Zoltan Kocsis (piano)

  • PHILIPS 462 381-2 CD1 Tr58.

• Paul Durcan

  The Turkish Carpet, Scott Handy (reader)

• 01:02

  John Dowland

  Forlorn Hope Fancy

  Performer: Nigel North (lute)

  • NAXOS 8.557586 Tr17.

• Robert Hunt

  ‘China’ from Companion to the Official Catalogue – Synopsis of the Contents of the Great Exhibition of 1851, Catherine Harvey (reader)

• 01:06

  Benjamin Britten

  The Pagodas (The Prince of the Pagodas, Act 2 Scene 2)

  Performer: Orchestra of the Royal Opera House, Benjamin Britten (conductor)

  • LONDON 421 855-2 CD1 Tr20.
• 01:09

  Béla Bartók

  From the Island of Bali (Mikrokosmos, Book 4)

  Performer: Zoltan Kocsis (piano)

  • PHILIPS 462 381-2 CD2 Tr13.

• Wang Wei (transl: Witter Bynner)

  Toward the Temple of Heaped Fragrance, Scott Handy (reader)

• William Wordsworth

  In My Mind’s Eye a Temple, like a Cloud, Catherine Harvey (reader)

• 01:11

  Edward Elgar

  Civic Fanfare

  Performer: Locke Brass Consort, James Stobart (director)

  • CHAN 6573 Tr3.

• Iain Bamforth

  The Great Exhibition, Scott Handy (reader)