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  • A Lover’s GiftfromHer to Him How Do I Love Thee?Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1806-1861) The relationship between Elizabeth Barrett and RobertBrowning began after he wrote to her to praise her poetry. She was a permanentinvalid, and they wrote to each other for four months without meeting.Elizabeth’s domineering father marred their eventual courtship, and they wereonly able to escape the strain he placed upon them by eloping to Pisa. For thelast fifteen years of her life they were never separated. How do I love thee: let me count the ways.I love thee to the depth and breadth and heightMy soul can reach, when feeling out of sightFor the ends of Being and ideal Grace.I love thee to the level of every day’sMost quiet need, by sun and candle light.I love freely, as men strive for Right;I love thee purely, as they turn from Praise.I love thee with a love I seemed to loseWith my lost saints, - I love tee with the breath,Smiles, tears, of all my life! - and if God choose,I shall but love thee better after death. Music: ‘Dank Sei Dir, Herr’, Ochs. Takako Nishizaki/Polish National Radio SO/Breiner 8.223586 From the Song of Solomon‘...let me see thy countenance, let me hear thy voice; forsweet is thy voice, and thy countenance is comely.’ Music: Ombra Mai Fù from Serse, Hande Takako Nishizaki/Polish National Radio SO/Breiner 8.223586 A BirthdayChristina Rossetti (1830-1894) My heart is like a singing birdWhose nest is in a water’d shoot;My heart is like an apple treeWhose boughs are bent with thick-set fruit:My heart is like a rainbow shellThat paddles in a halcyon sea;My heart is gladder than all these,Because my love is come to me. Raise me a daïs of silk and down;Hang it with vair and purple dyes;Carve it in doves and pomegranates,And peacocks with a hundred eyes;Work it in gold and silver grapes,In leaves and silver fleurs-de-lys;Because the birthday of my lifeIs come, my love is come to me. Music: Andante from Violin Concerto in E minor Op.64,Mendelssohn Takako Nishizaki/Slovak Philharmonic/Jean 8.550153 From Romeo and JulietWilliam Shakespeare (1564-1616) Act II, Scene II‘O Romeo, Romeo! Wherefore art thou Romeo?Deny thy father and refuse my name,Or if thou wilt not, be but sworn my love;And I’ll no longer be a Capulet…’Act III Scene II‘Gallop apace, you fiery-footed steeds,Towards Phoebus’ lodging…Give me my Romeo; and, when he shall die,Take him and cut him out in little stars,And he will make the face of heaven so fineThat all the world will be in love with nightAnd pay no worship to the garnish sun.’ Music: Romeo and Juliet, Tchaikovsky Royal Philharmonic Orchestra/Leaper 8.550606 Music: Vissi d’arte from Tosca, Puccini Miriam Gauci/BRT Philharmonic O/Rahbari 8.550606 Letter from Marianna Alcoforada (1640-1723) to the Marquis of Chamilly and St. Leger (1634-1715) Marianna Alcoforado, a Portuguese nun, fell in love with anarmy captain, the Marquis of Chamilly and St. Leger, as he rodepast her convent one day. They embarked upon an affair but the threat ofscandal forced them apart. He later published her letters under the title TheLetters of a Portuguese Nun. This quickly became a classic text, inspiring,amongst others, Elizabeth Barrett Browning whose ‘Sonnets from thePortuguese’ are based upon it. ‘I know that mylove for you is sheer madness, yet I do not at all complain of the violence of my emotions’. Music: Saraband from An English Suite, ParryCapella Istropolitana/Leaper 8.550331 Letter from Mary Wollstonecraft (1759-1797) to Gilbert Imlay‘Cherish me with that dignified tenderness which I have onlyfound in you.’ To My Dear and Loving HusbandAnne Bradstreet (c1612-1672) If ever two were one, then surely we.If ever man were lov’d by wife, then thee.If ever wife was happy in man,Compare with me, ye women, if you can.I prize thy love more than whole mines of gold,Or all the riches that the East doth hold.My love is such that rivers cannot quench,Nor ought but love from thee give recompense.Thy love is such that I can no way repay;The heavens reward thee manifold I pray.Then while we live, in love let’s so persevere,That when we live no more, we may live ever. Music: Andante, Holberg Suite, GriegCamerata Cassovia/Walter 8.551108 We TwoKuan Tao-Sheng (13th Century AD) You and IHave so much love,That it burns like a fire,In which we bake a lump of clayMolded into a figure of youAnd a figure of me.Then we take both of them,And break them into pieces,And mix the pieces with water,And mold again a figure of you,And a figure of me.I am in your clay.You are in my clay.In life we share a single quilt.In death we will share one coffin. Letter from Julie-Jeanne-Eléonore de l’Espinasse (1732-1776)to the Comte de Guibert Julie de l’Espinasse literally died of a broken heart. Herfirst great love, the Marquis de Mora, left her due to his ill health, and shebecame involved with another man, the Comte de Guibert. On the day she andGuibert became lovers, de Mora died, and Julie de l’Espinasse never recoveredfrom her grief.‘Good night. My door has not been opened once today, butthat my heart palpitated. There were moments when I feared to hear your voice,and then I was disconsolate that it was not your voice. So many contradictions,so many contrary movements are true, and can be explained in three words: Ilove you’. Music: Mondnacht from Liederkreis Op. 39, SchumannTakako Nishizaki/Polish National Radio SO/Breiner 8.223586 From PsychologyKatherine Mansfield (1888-1922) ‘Just for a moment both of them stood silent in that leapinglight. Still, as it were, they tasted on their smiling lips the sweet shock oftheir greeting.’ Music: Elegy, Op 58, ElgarCapella Istropolitana/Leaper 8.550331 Letter from Katherine Mansfield to John Middleton Murray The love affair between Mansfield, one of the finest shortstory writers of the 20th century and Murray, a leading literary critic, waspassionate but brief — she died of tuberculosis at the age of 34. ‘Life is too short for our love even though we stayedtogether every moment of all the years.’ Music: Piano Concerto in C minor, Op 18, RachmaninovJenö Jandö/Budapest SO/Lehel 8.550117 Letter from Heloïse (1101-1164) to Abelard (1079-1142) Abelard was an eminent French philosopher and Heloïse ayoung student of seventeen when they met and fell in love. A secret child andmarriage ensued, after which Abelard disguised Heloïse as a nun so that shecould hide safely in a convent away from her disapproving uncle Fulbert.Tragically, Fulbert perceived this move as Abelard’s unchivalrous abandonmentof his niece and sent a band of men to forcibly castrate him. Abelard became amonk, and Heloïse had no choice but to take the veil. Twelve years after theirseparation, a correspondence developed — the letters by Heloïse, then anAbbess, a poignant, vividly honesty. ‘The pleasures of lovers which we shared have been too sweet- they can never displease me, and can scarcely be banished from my thoughts.’ Music: Andante, Violin Concerto in D major, TchaikovskyTakako Nishizaki/Slovak Philharmonic/Jean 8.550153 From Wuthering HeightsEmily Brontë (1818-1848) ‘My love for Heathcliff resembles the eternal rocks beneath- a source of little visible delight but necessary. He’s always, always in mymind.’ Music: Affestuoso, Piano Concerto in A minor, SchumannJandö/Budapest SO/Ligeti 8.550118 Music: Si, me chiamano Mimi from La Bohème, PucciniGauci/BRT Philharmonic O/Rahbari 8.550606 MeetingChristina Rossetti (1830-1894) If we shall live, we live:If we shall die, we die:If we live we shall meet again:But to-night, good-bye.One word, let but one be heard -What, not one word? If we sleep we shall wake againAnd see to-morrow’s light:If we wake, we shall meet again:But to-night, good-night.Good-night, my lost and found -Still not a sound? If we live, we must part:If we die, we part in pain:If we die, we shall partOnly to meet again.By those tears on either cheek,To-morrow you will speak. To meet, worth living for:Worth dying for, to meet.To meet, worth parting for:Bitter forgot in sweet.To meet, worth parting before,Never to part more. Music: Gymnopédies I, SatieCSR SO/Lenard 8.550088 Letter from Jane Clairmont (198-1879) to Lord Byron The mere mention of Lord Byron’s name was enough to set manyhearts fluttering — the charismatic author of Childe Harold broke many hearts.‘I do assure you, your future will be mine, and everythingyou shall do or say, I shall not question.’ If Thou Must Love MeElizabeth Barrett Browning (1806-1861) If thou must love me, let it be for naughtExcept for love’s sake only. Do not say,‘I love her for her smile-her look-her wayOf speaking gently, - for a trick of thoughtThat falls in well with mine, and certes broughtA sense of pleasant ease on such a day’ -For these things in themselves,Belovèd, mayBe changed, or change for thee - and love, so wroughtMay be unwrought so. Neither love me forThine own dear pity’s wiping my cheeks dry:A creature might forget to weep, who boreThy comfort long, and lose thy love thereby!But love me for love’s sake, that evermoreThou mayst love one, through love’s eternity. Music: Adagio, Violin Concerto No 1, G minor, BruchNishizaki/Slovak Philharmonic/Gunzenhauser 8.550195 From Jane EyreCharlotte Brontë (1816-1855) ‘I had not intended to love him; the reader knows I hadwrought hard to extirpate from my soul the germs of love there detected; andnow, at the first renewed view of him, they spontaneously revived, green andstrong! He made me love him without looking at me.’ Music: Allegro, Serenade, Op 29, ElgarCapella Istropolitana/Leaper 8.550331 Letter from George Sand to Pietro Pagello George Sand was the nom de plume of Lucile-Aurore Dupin,baronne Dedevant (1804-76), a Paris-born novelist. Prolific in her output, herfirst success was Indian (1832), followed by other novels, tales, biographicaland critical essays, and dramatic works. She enjoyed liaisons with Chopin,Musset and Flaubert as well as Pietro Pagello, and her letters are of greatliterary interest, even today.‘When you look at me tenderly, I shall believe that yoursoul is gazing at mine; when you glance at heaven, I shall believe that yourmind turns toward the eternity from which it sprang.’ Music: Serenade for Strings, TchaikovskyVienna Chamber Orchestra/Entremont 8.550404 From Night and DayVirginia Woolf (1882-1941) ‘They brought themselves by these means, acting on a mood ofprofound happiness, to a state of clear sightedness where the lifting of afinger had effect, and one word spoke more than a sentence.’ Music: Le Jardin Séerique, Ma mére l’oye, RavelCRSO/Jean 8.550173 From Song of the GeishasAt Kataushika the river waterRuns gently, and the plum blossomBursts out laughing.The nightingale cannot withstand so many joysAnd sings, and we are reconciled.Our warm bodies touch,Cane branch and pine branch,Our boat floats in toward the bank. Music: Un bel dì, vedremo from Madame Butterfly, PucciniGauci/Czecho-Slovak Radio SO/Rahbari 8.660015-16 Conviction IVStevie Smith (1902-1971) (From The Collected Poems of Stevie Smith (Penguin 20thCentury Classics), by kind permission of James MacGibbon.) I like to get off with people,I like to lie in their arms,I like to be held and tightly kissed,Safe from all alarms. I like to laugh and be happyWith a beautiful, beautiful kiss,I tell you, in all the worldThere is no bliss like this.Letter from Clara Wieck (1819-1896) to Robert Schumann(1810-1956)Clara Wieck was the daughter of Schumann’s piano teacher andan accomplished concert pianist. Robert and Clara fell very much in love, butClara’s father was totally against the marriage. Clara died in 1896.‘You require but a simple “Yes?” Such a small word - butsuch an important one. But should not a heart so full of unutterable love asmine utter this little word with all its might? I do so and my innermost soulwhispers always to you. The sorrows of my heart, the many tears, could I depictthem to you - oh no! Perhaps fate will ordain that we see each other soon andthen - your intention seems risky to me and yet a loving heart does not takemuch count of dangers. But once again I say to you “Yes”.’ Molly Bloom’s concluding soliloquy from UlyssesJames Joyce (1882-1941) ‘…and then I asked him with my eyes and then he asked mewould I yes…and first I put my arms around him yes and drew him down to me toask again yes so he could feel my breasts all perfume yes and his heart wasgoing like mad and yes I said yes I will Yes.’ Music: Siegfried Idyll, WagnerPolish National Radio SO/Wildner 8.550498 About the reader Laura Paton trained at LAMDA where she won the St. PhillipsPrize for poetry and the Michael Warre Award. She has toured the UK extensivelyin productions as varied as The Two Gentlemen of Verona and Oscar Wilde’sSalomé.
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        作品编号：22958  A Lover's Gift from Her to Him

      • How Do I Love Thee?

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        作品编号：22958  A Lover's Gift from Her to Him

      • From The Song Of Soloman, The Bible

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        作品编号：22958  A Lover's Gift from Her to Him

      • A Birthday

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        作品编号：22958  A Lover's Gift from Her to Him

      • From Romeo And Juliet

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        作品编号：22958  A Lover's Gift from Her to Him

      • Vissi d' Arte From Tosca, Puccini

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        作品编号：22958  A Lover's Gift from Her to Him

      • Letter From Marianna Alcoforado (The Portuguese Nun) To The Marquis Of Chamilly And St. Leger

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        作品编号：22958  A Lover's Gift from Her to Him

      • Letter From Mary Wollstonecraft to Gilbert Imlay

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        作品编号：22958  A Lover's Gift from Her to Him

      • To My Dear And Loving Husband

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        作品编号：22958  A Lover's Gift from Her to Him

      • We Two

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        作品编号：22958  A Lover's Gift from Her to Him

      • Letter From Julie - Jeanne - Eleonore de l'Espinasse To The Comte de Guibert

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        作品编号：22958  A Lover's Gift from Her to Him

      • From Psychology

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        作品编号：22958  A Lover's Gift from Her to Him

      • Letter From Katherine Mansfield to John Middleton Murry

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        作品编号：22958  A Lover's Gift from Her to Him

      • Letter From Heloise to Abelard

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        作品编号：22958  A Lover's Gift from Her to Him

      • From Wuthering Heights

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        作品编号：22958  A Lover's Gift from Her to Him

      • Si, me chiamano Mimi From La Boheme, Puccini

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        作品编号：22958  A Lover's Gift from Her to Him

      • Meeting

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        作品编号：22958  A Lover's Gift from Her to Him

      • Letter From Jane Clairmont To Lord Byron

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        作品编号：22958  A Lover's Gift from Her to Him

      • If Thou Must Love Me

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        作品编号：22958  A Lover's Gift from Her to Him

      • From Jane Eyre

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        作品编号：22958  A Lover's Gift from Her to Him

      • Letter From George Sand To Pietro Pagello

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        作品编号：22958  A Lover's Gift from Her to Him

      • From Night To Day

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        作品编号：22958  A Lover's Gift from Her to Him

      • From Song Of the Geishas

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        作品编号：22958  A Lover's Gift from Her to Him

      • Un bel di, vedremo From Madama Butterfly, Puccini

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        作品编号：22958  A Lover's Gift from Her to Him

      • Conviction IV

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        作品编号：22958  A Lover's Gift from Her to Him

      • Letter From Clara Wieck to Robert Schumann

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        作品编号：22958  A Lover's Gift from Her to Him

      • From Ulysses