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Readers Yusra Warsama and Darren Kuppan explore the multilayered symbolism of keys, reading from Dante, Rumi and Tracy Beaker alongside music by Bach, Bessie Smith and Mozart.

Keys open doors and minds, keep secrets and reveal them, flutter freely from trees and imprison for eternity and they set a musical sound. Readers Yusra Warsama and Darren Kuppan read from works which feature lost keys, magical ones, fumbling at locks, at learning and committing murder. The readings include extracts from works by Dante, Tracy Beaker and a vintage recording of TS Eliot, and music including Chopin's Black Key Study, PJ Harvey's Chain of Keys, Bartok's Bluebeard's Castle, Bessie Smith's Lock and Key, JS Bach channelled by Wendy Carlos and Scott Joplin's Sycamore Rag.

Producer in Salford: Ewa Norman

Readings and *Music

Tom Ramsey - Keys
*Chopin - Etude in G flat major, Op.10 No.5 'Black Keys'
Lewis Carroll - Alice in Wonderland
*Oliver Wallace/Sammy Fain/Bob Hilliard - Alice in Wonderland: The Garden /All in the Golden Afternoon
*Mozart - Sonata for violin and piano (K.380) in E flat major, Andante
Ivan Hewitt - What is a musical key?
Emily Dickinson - Poem: 315. He fumbles at your Soul
*Colleen -Geometr铆a del Universo
Rumi - You suppose you are the trouble
Yuko Minamikawa Adams - Key
*Melanie - Brand New Key
Jacqueline Wilson - Tracey Beaker
*Vaclav Trojan - Fairytales for accordion and orchestra: The Acrobatic Fairytale
Plato - The Republic
*Philip Glass - Etude no. 2 for piano
Marcel Proust - Swann鈥檚 Way
PJ Harvey - Zagorka
*PJ Harvey - Chain of Keys
*Hari Prasad Chaurasia - Raga Lalit
Asit Kumar Sanyal - Key-Person
*Bartok - Bluebeard's Castle: Sixth Door + Seventh Doors (excerpts)
Andrew Lang - Bluebeard
JS Bach - It's easy to play any musical instrument
*JS Bach / Wendy Carlos - Brandenburg Concerto No. 3: Allegro
James Joyce - Ulysses
*Bessie Smith - Lock and Key
John Oxenham - His Latch Key
*George Butterworth - 2 English idylls for orchestra: no.2
Robin Robertson - Finding the Keys
*Scott Joplin - The Sycamore
TS Eliot - The Wasteland
*Beethoven: Coriolan - overture (Op.62)
Andrea Gibson - Birthday
*Alexander Scriabin: Piano Sonata No 3 in F sharp minor, Op 23, 'Etats de l'ame '- Andante
C.S. Lewis - The Problem of Pain
Dante - Inferno: Purgatory Canto IX
*Tomas Luis de Victoria - Tu es Petrus
Aravind Adiga - The White Tiger

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

  • 00:02

    Fr茅d茅ric Chopin

    Etude in G flat, Op.10 no.5 (Black Keys)

    Performer: Maurizio Pollini.
  • 00:04

    Kathryn Beaumont

    The Garden/All in the Golden Afternoon (Alice in Wonderland)

  • 00:08

    Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Violin Sonata in E flat, K.380 (2nd mvt: Andante)

    Performer: Frank Peter Zimmermann. Performer: Alexander Lonquich.
  • 00:15

    Colleen

    Geometria del Universo

  • 00:18

    Melanie

    Brand New Key

  • 00:22

    V谩clav Trojan

    The Acrobatic Fairytale

    Performer: Ksenija Sidorova. Orchestra: 蜜芽传媒 National Orchestra of Wales. Conductor: Clark Rundell.
  • 00:26

    Philip Glass

    Etude no.2

    Performer: V铆kingur 脫lafsson.
  • 00:33

    PJ Harvey

    Chain of Keys

  • 00:40

    B茅la Bart贸k

    Sixth and Seventh Doors (Duke Bluebeard's Castle)

    Singer: Sally Burgess. Singer: John Tomlinson. Orchestra: Orchestra of Opera North. Conductor: Richard Farnes.
  • 00:43

    Johann Sebastian Bach

    Brandenburg Concerto No.3 (3rd mvt: Allegro)

    Performer: Wendy Carlos. Music Arranger: Wendy Carlos.
  • 00:46

    Bessie Smith

    Lock and Key

  • 00:50

    George Butterworth

    English Idyll no.2

    Performer: Mark Elder. Orchestra: Hall茅.
  • 00:56

    Scott Joplin

    The Sycamore

    Performer: Dick Hyman.
  • 00:59

    Ludwig van Beethoven

    Overture: Coriolan

    Performer: Sir John Eliot Gardiner. Orchestra: Orchestre R茅volutionnaire et Romantique.
  • 01:06

    Alexander Scriabin

    Piano Sonata no.3 in F sharp minor (3rd mvt: Andante)

    Performer: Alexander Melnikov.
  • 01:10

    Tom谩s Luis de Victoria

    Tu es Petrus

    Choir: Ensemble Plus Ultra. Director: Michael Noone.

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