Labyrinth
Texts and music focusing on the idea of the labyrinth, with readings by Anna Maxwell Martin and Rory Kinnear. With George Herbert, Borges, plus Monk, Part, Satie and Bach.
What lies at the heart of the labyrinth? Minotaur or man? Fear or delight? We're all fascinated by labyrinths - whether they're an impenetrable jumble of box hedges in the garden of a stately home or the multiplying reflections in a hall of mirrors. We move through them at the speed of dreams - sometimes as quick as a flicker of lightning sometimes as slow as the drift of sand in an hour glass. From inside they can appear both menacing and beguiling. From outside they can be treated as an engaging puzzle but one where the solution is never in doubt. This evening - should you accept their invitation - you can join Rory Kinnear and Anna Maxwell Martin in a maze of words and music. Along the way you are likely to bump into George Herbert, Thelonious Monk, Arvo Part, Erik Satie, Jorge Luis Borges, Edwin Muir, Bach and Francis Seyrig - some of them more than once....even if you don't lose your way or your nerve.
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Timings (where shown) are from the start of the programme in hours and minutes
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00:00Francis Seyrig
Solitude (From Original Sound track of L'annee derniere a Marienbad)
Performer: Marie-Louise Girod
- Philips.
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Alain Robbe-Grillet
Extract from In the Labyrinth read by Anna Maxwell Martin
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00:01Orchestre national du Capitole de Toulouse
Gnossienne Number 6
Performer: Reinbert De Leeuw
- Philips 4466722.
Alain Robbe-Grillet
Extract from In the Labyrinth read by Anna Maxwell Martin
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00:05Gy枚rgy Kurt谩g
Wiederum, wiederum( Kafka Fragmente)
Performer: Juliane Banse , Andras Keller
- ECM New Series 1965 476 3099.
Jorge Luis Borges
Covered Mirrors from Collected Fictions read by Rory Kinnear
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00:10Arvo P盲rt
Spiegel im Spiegel
Performer: Tamsin Little, Martin Roscoe, Bournemouth Sinfonietta
- EMI Classics.
Italo Calvino
Extract from If on a Winters Night a Traveller read by Rory Kinnear
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00:21Harrison Birtwistle
The Minotaur
Performer: John Tomlinson, The Royal Opera Chorus, The Orchestra of the Royal Opera House, cond. Antonio Pappaono
- From a live performance transmitted on 大象传媒 Radio 3 on Saturday 21st May 2008..
Samuel Menashe
Old Mirror from New and Selected Poems read by Anna Maxwell Martin
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00:29Naked City( Bill Frisell, Fred Frith)
Back Through the Looking Glass
Performer: Naked City
- AVANT AVANT001.
Ludwig Wittgenstein
An extract from Philosophical Investigations read by Rory Kinnear
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00:32Thelonious Monk
Brilliant Corners
Performer: Thelonious Monk, Sonny Rollins, Ernie Henry, Oscar Pettiford , Max Roach
- Keepnews Collection RCD30501.
Lewis Carroll
From Alice in Wonderland read by Anna Maxwell Martin
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00:42Johann Sebastian Bach
Kleines Harmonisches Labyrinth
Performer: Werner Jacob
- EMI 5738782.
George Herbert
The Pearl from The Complete English Poems read by Rory Kinnear
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00:48Paul Giger
Labyrinth
Performer: Paul Giger
- ECM 8377522.
Dana Gioia
Maze without a Minotaur from The Gods of Winter read by Rory Kinnear
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00:59Paul Simon
Patterns
Performer: Paul Simon , Art Garfunkel
- CBS CD62825.
Edwin Muir
The Labyrinth from Selected Poems read by Anna Maxwell Martin
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01:08Francis Seyrig
Solitude (From Original Sound track of L'annee derniere a Marienbad)
Performer: Marie-Louise Girod
- Philips.
Alain Robbe-Grillet
Extract from the end of In the Labyrinth read by Anna Maxwell Martin
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01:10Orchestre national du Capitole de Toulouse
Gnossienne Number 4
Performer: Reinbert De Leeuw
- Philips 4466722.
Broadcast
- Sun 27 Mar 2011 22:15大象传媒 Radio 3
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