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Blood Wedding

Blood Wedding: A selection of music, poetry and prose conjuring images of blood, marriage and the moon. With works by Bach, Berg, Bowie, Mozart, and poems by William Empson.

Blood Wedding

A lifelong admirer of Federico Garcia Lorca, composer Simon Holt has set Lorca's words on many occasions. He selects music, poetry and prose conjuring images of blood, marriage and the moon.

As well as works by Bach, Berg, Bowie, Mozart, Manson and Lorca himself, Ian McDiarmid and Nuria Benet read extracts from TS Eliot's Four Quartets, poems by William Empson and Don Paterson, Roberto Calasso's The Marriage of Cadmus and Harmony, and Fernando Pessoa's The Book of Disquiet.

1 hour, 45 minutes

Last on

Sun 25 Nov 2007 22:15

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  • Sun 25 Nov 2007 22:15

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