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Fathers and Sons

Freddie Jones and his son Toby are the readers in a sequence about the relationship between fathers and sons. With Turgenev and Coleridge, plus Bach, Mozart and the Strausses.

Fathers and their sons -- or should that be sons and their fathers? Whichever way you look at it, it has to be one of the most powerful of human bonds....sometimes nurturing, sometimes destructive but always unavoidable. This evening's Words and Music features two of Britain's best known actors - Freddie Jones and as you might expect under the circumstances, his son Toby. Freddie has starred in everything from The Elephant Man to Emmerdale Farm and Toby is just as ubiquitous - think of Berberian Sound studio, Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy or Dr Who. They stay pretty much in character for the programme - with the odd surprise - to explore this turbulent domestic terrain drawing on Shakespeare, Turgenev, Coleridge and Michael Hoffman as they go. Further illumination, wit and vitality is provided by JS Bach and his son CPE, the Strauss family, Leopold and Wolfgang Mozart and by Max Richter and Horace Silver - so something for everyone, as they say.

Producer: Zahid Warley.

1 hour, 15 minutes

Last on

Sun 28 Oct 2012 18:30
主播大秀 Radio 3

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Music Played

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

  • 00:00

    Johann Sebastian Bach

    Magnificat BMV 243a - magnificat anima mea

    Performer: Philippe Herreweghe

    • Harmonia Mundi.
    • 8.

  • Coleridge

    Frost at Midnight (Freddie Jones)

  • 00:05

    Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach

    Magnificat Wq 215 - Deposuit potentes

    Performer: Tolzer Knabenchor Collegium Aureum

    • Deutsche Harmonia Mundi.
    • 18.

  • Seamus Heaney

    Digging (Toby Jones)

  • 00:14

    Johann Strauss II

    Seufzer Galopp

    Performer: The Gaudier Ensemble

    • Hyperion.
    • 16.

  • Turgenev

    Fathers and Sons (Freddie Jones and Toby Jones)

  • 00:17

    Josef Strauss

    Spharenklange

    Performer: Vienna Philharmonic/Kleiber

    • Sony Classical.
    • 10.

  • Turgenev

    Fathers and Sons (Freddie Jones and Toby Jones)

  • 00:21

    Josef Strauss

    Spharenklange

    Performer: Vienna Philharmonic/Kleiber

    • Sony Classical.
    • 10.
  • 00:22

    Johann Strauss II

    An der schonen blauen Donau

    Performer: Vienna Philharmonic/Kleiber

    • Sony Classical.
    • 12.

  • Turgenev

    Fathers and Sons (Freddie Jones and Toby Jones)

  • 00:26

    Johann Strauss II

    An der schonen blauen Donau

    Performer: Vienna Philharmonic/Kleiber

    • Sony Classical.
    • 12.

  • Letters of W.A. Mozart translated by Stewart Spencer

    From letter to Leopold Mozart, July 25th 1781 (Toby Jones)

  • 00:30

    Leopold Mozart

    Duets for 2 violins No.4 tempo di menuetto

    Performer: Gidon Kremer/ Tatjan Grindenko

    • RCA.
    • 11.

  • Shakespeare

    Henry IV Part II (Toby Jones and Freddie Jones)

  • 00:39

    Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    String Quartet in D minor K.421 Menuetto

    Performer: Budapest Quartet: Chamber Works

    • Sony Classical.
    • 7.

  • Simon Gray

    The Year of the Jouncer (Toby Jones)

  • 00:45

    Antonio Vivaldi

    The Four Seasons 鈥� L'autunno - allegro

    Performer: London Symphony Orchestra with Gidon Kremer

    • Deutsche Grammophon.
    • 7.

  • Michael Hoffman

    My Father at Fifty (Toby Jones)

  • 00:52

    Max Richter

    Summer 3

    Performer: Daniel Hope, Andre de Ridder and Konzerthaus Kammerorchester Berlin

    • Deutsche.
    • 7.

  • Charles Bukowski

    The Twins (Toby Jones)

  • 01:01

    Horace Silver

    Song For my Father

    Performer: Horace Silver Quintet

    • Blue Note.
    • 1.

  • W.S.Merwin

    Yesterday (Freddie Jones)

  • 01:10

    Loudon Wainwright III

    A Father and A son

    Performer: Loudon Wainwright III

    • Strange Fruit.
    • 18.

Broadcast

  • Sun 28 Oct 2012 18:30
    主播大秀 Radio 3

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