A Very Fine Cat: A Feline Celebration in Words and Music CD

A Very Fine Cat A feline celebration in words and music. From the eight century Pangur Bán to Samuel Johnson's Hodge, 'a very fine cat indeed', this is a tale of cats told by some of the greatest writers. We've added several varieties of feline music, too, by Chopin, Fauré, Confrey, Rossini, Scarlatti, Copland, Anderson and Tchaikovsky. 1 Hodge - Samuel Johnson 2 'Cat' Waltz (Grande Valse Brillante) Op34/3 - Frédéric Chopin 3 Familiarity dangerous - William Cowper 4 Pangur Bán Anon (eight century) 5 Mi-a-ou - Gabriel Fauré 6 Lat take a cat from The Manciple's Tale - Geoffrey Chaucer 7 To my cat - Rosamund Marriot Watson 8 The Cat and the moon - William Butler Yeats 9 Kitten on the keys - Zed Confrey 10 The kitten and falling leaves - William Wordsworth 11 To a cat - John Keats 12 Cat duet - Gioacchino Rossini 13 On a cat aging - Alexander Gray 14 To a Cat - Ibn Alalaf Alnaharwany (AD 829) 15 Kitty Waltz - Gabriel Fauré 16 On the death of a favourite cat - Thomas Gray 17 Last words to a dumb friend - Thomas Hardy 18 'Cat' - Fugue Domenico Scarlatti 19 Lisy's parting with her cat - James Thomson 20 My Cat Geoffrey - Christopher Smart 21 The Cat and the mouse - Aaron Copland 22 A Cat - Edward Thomas 23 War cat - Dorothy L Sayers 24 Waltzing cat - Leroy Anderson 25 Five Eyes - Walter de la Mare 26 Cat's meat - Harold Munro 27 Puss in Boots from Sleeping Beauty - Piotr Illich Tchaikovsky 28 The matron's cat song - Ruth Pitter Poetry read by Margaret Howard (3, 7, 16, 23, 26, 28) John Touhey (1, 6, 8, 11, 14, 19, 23, 25, 28) Bernard Palmer (1, 4, 10, 13, 17, 20, 22, 28) Music performed by Martin Souter, piano (2, 5, 9, 15, 18, 21) Sara Stowe, Penelope Martin Smith and Matthew Spring (12) The Royal Philharmonic Orchestra (27) Leroy Anderson and His Pops Concert Orchestra (24)Read More