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Blood Wedding

Composer Simon Holt selects music, poetry and prose reflecting images of blood, marriage and the moon which suffuse Lorca's play Blood Wedding. With music by Bach and Berg.

English composer Simon Holt, a lifelong admirer of the Spanish poet Federico Garcia Lorca, selects music, poetry and prose reflecting the mages of blood, marriage and the moon which suffuse his best-known play, Blood Wedding.

Including music by Bach, Berg, Bowie, Marilyn Mozart, Manson, Shostakovich, Schoenberg, Scarlatti and Lorca and Holt themselves, plus actors Ian McDiarmid and Nuria Benet reading 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 13 Jul 2008 22:15

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  • Sun 13 Jul 2008 22:15

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