VIDEOS

THE
WIDOW’S TALE

JUST THE
FACTS, MA'AM

ON
LANGUAGE

ON
BEGGARS

ON
APRICOTS

Henry Speck

The Middle
East - 1988

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Henry Speck

Saddam Hussein invades Kuwait -1990

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FICTION


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NON-FICTION

Ramses

Ramses the
Great

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SCRAPBOOK

The
Lightning Painter
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The Hill
Country Beyond
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The Llano
String Quartet
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The Jawbone
of an Ass
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‘Εϕερα τη ζωη μου ωs εδω

Odysseas Elytis (1911-1996)

‘Εϕερα τη ζωη μου ωs εδω
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……………………..
…………………….

I have brought my life

I have brought my life as far as this
Spot that struggle
Always near the sea.
Youth upon the rocks, breast
To breast against the wind

(Translated……..)

AN ANTHOLOGY OF
SHORTER POEMS

W H Auden (1907-1973)

The Shield of Achilles

In Memory of W.B. Yeats

Matsuo Basho (1644-1694)

A Haiku

C P Cavafy (1863-1933)

Ithaka

The God Abandons Antony

Odysseas Elytis (1911-1996)

‘Εϕερα τη ζωη μου ωs εδω

A E Housman (1859-1936)

A Shropshire Lad, LIV

Alexander Korbay (1846-1913)

No, de se baj, több is veszett Mohacsmal!

Ezra Pound (1885-1972)

And Thus in Nineveh

Salvatore Quasimodo (1901-1968)

Ed é subito sera (And suddenly it is evening)

Antico inverno (Ancient winter)

George Seferis (1900-1971)

ΜΥΦΙΣΤΟΡΗΜΑ: ΚΙ῎

Mythistorema, 17

William Shakespeare (1564-1616)

Cymbeline - Act IV, Scene 2

The Tempest - Act IV, Scene 1

Alfred Lord Tennyson (1809-1892)

“Frater Ave atque Vale”

Dylan Thomas (1914-1953)

Elegy

Fern Hill

William Butler Yeats (1865-1939)

When You are Old

The Lake Isle of Innisfree

Easter, 1916

A SELECTION OF MUSIC

Jussi Björling (1911-1960)

Rossini, Stabat Mater, "Cujus animam" (1938)

Bizet, Pearl Fishers, “Au fond du temple sainte”
with Robert Merrill (1917-2004)

Voice of Firestone (1950)

Johannes Brahms (1833-1897)

Ein Deutsches Requiem, Cond. Klemper with
Schwarzkopf and Fischer-Dieskau

Enrico Caruso (1873-1921)

Cohan, “Over There” (1918)

Bizet, “Agnus Dei" (1935)

Verdi, Otello, “Si pel ciel” with Titta Ruffo (1877-1953)

Donizetti, Lucia di Lammermoor, The Sextet with
Galli-Curci, Egener, De Luca, Bada, Journet (1917)

Feodor Chaliapin (1873-1936)

de Lisle, “La Marseillaise”

Rubenstein, “Persian Love Song”

Ibert, The Death of Don Quixote

Boris Christoff (1914-1993)

Traditional, “The Song of the Volga Boatmen” (1959)

Radost, “Siberian Prisoner’s Song“

Mussorgsky, Boris Godunov, Death of Boris Pt 1 (1959)

Mussorgsky, Boris Godunov, Death of Boris Pt 2 (1959)

Frederick Delius (1862-1934)

A Village Romeo and Juliet, “Walk to the Paradise Garden”
conducted Sir Andrew Davis (2000)

Victoria de los Angeles (1923-2005)

Puccini, Madame Butterfly, “Un bel di vedremo”

Puccini, Madame Butterfly, "Vieni la Sera” with Jussi Björling (1959)

Giuseppe de Luca (1876-1950)

Verdi, Ernani, “O sommo Carlo” (1930)

Donizetti, La Favorita “A tanto amor” (1918)

Edward Elgar (1857-1934)

Enigma Variations - Variation IX (Adagio) - “Nimrod”
directed Sir Colin Davis (1927-2013)

Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau (1925-2012)

Schubert, “Der Erlkönig”

Schubert “Die Götter Griechenlands”

Hans Hotter (1909-2003)

Wagner, Die Walküre, “Wotan’s Abschied” (1965)

Julis Patzak (1898-1974)

Beethoven, Fidelio - “Gott! Welch' Dunkel hier!” (1950)

Zinka Milanov (1906-1989)

Verdi, La Forza del Destino, “Pace, pace mio Dio!’” (1958)

Puccini, Tosca, Love Duet, Act I with Jussi Björling, Pt 1

Puccini, Tosca, Love Duet, Act I with Jussi Björling, Pt 2

Claudia Muzio (1889-1936)

Verdi, La traviata, "Teneste la Promessa... Addio del Passato” (1935)

Rosa Ponselle (1897-1981)

Bellini, Norma, ”Casta Diva” (1928)

Bellini, Norma, ”Mira Norma” with Marion Telva (1929)

Lawrence Tibbett (1896-1960)

Verdi, Simon Boccanegra, with Ezio Pinza (1892-1957)

Verdi, Simon Boccanegra, “Plebe! Patrizi!”

Verdi, Simon Boccanegra, Act I, "Figlia, a tal nome palpito"

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