the romantic hours Mona Golabek

1. Jean Sibelius: excerpt from Symphony No. 6, Allegro molto moderato. Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra. Jukka-Pekka Saraste, conductor

   Reading: Georges Sand "There is only one happiness in life"

2. Frédéric Chopin: Nocturne in D-flat, Op. 27, No. 2. Peter Serkin, piano

3. Reading: Erik Satie "I have finally broken with Suzanne"

   Satie: Gymnopédie No. 1. National Philharmonic Orchestra. Charles Gerhardt, conductor.

4. Reading: Cees Nooteboom "How much time..."

   Joseph Canteloube: Baïlèro from Chants d'Auvergne. Anna Moffo, soprano. American Sympohny Orchestra. Leopold Stokowski, conductor

5. Reading: Claude Debussy "To think that only yesterday..."

6. Debussy: Clair de lune from Suite bergamesque. Alexis Weissenberg, piano.

7. Reading: The Song of Solomon "My beloved is white and ruddy"

   Jacques Ibert: Rome–Palermo: Calme from Escales. Boston Symphony Orchestra. Charles Munch, conductor.

8. Reading: Franz Liszt "Forgive me, Marie"

9. Liszt: Consolation No. 3. Vladimir Horowitz, piano

10. Reading: Pablo Neruda: Sonnet No. 81: "And now you're mine"

    Erich Wolfgang Korngold: Violin Concerto in D, Op. 35, II: Romance. Jascha Heifetz, violin; Los Angeles Philharmonic. Alfred Wallenstein, Conductor.

11. Reading: Rainer Maria Rilke, from The Spanish Dancer: "One upward glance"

12. Isaac Albéniz: Leyenda (Asturias). Julian Bream, guitar.

13. Reading: Federico Garcia Lorca "Casida of the Reclining Woman"

14. Astor Piazzola: Poema Valseado. I Salonisti

15. Reading: Dora Carrington from her diary: "I dreamt of you again last night"

16. Maurice Ravel: Piano Concerto in G, II: Adagio assai. Alicia de Larrocha, piano. St. Louis Symphony. Leonard Slatkin, conductor.

17. Reading: Kenneth Patchen "As we are so wonderfully done with each other"

    Ottorino Respighi: Pines of the Gianicolo from The Pines of Rome. The Chicago Symphony Orchestra. Fritz Reiner, conductor.

18. Reading: Pablo Neruda: Sonnet No. 82 "As we close this nocturnal door"