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To Music

To Music: Diana Rigg and Samuel West read a selection of poetry on the theme of music, including poems by Elizabeth Jennings and TS Eliot. Plus music by Bach, Dowland and Schubert.

To Music

Diana Rigg and Samuel West read a selection of poetry on the theme of music. Including Elizabeth Jennings's First Music, Andrew Marvell's The Empire of Music, DH Lawrence's Piano and TS Eliot's Four Quartets, and WB Yeats reading his poem The Fiddler of Donney.

Music includes Webern's arrangement of Bach's A Musical Offering, songs by Dowland and Schubert, and Seamus Heaney's reading of The Given Note accompanied by piper Liam O'Flynn.

1 hour, 15 minutes

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Sun 16 Dec 2007 22:45

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  • Sun 16 Dec 2007 22:45

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