17/06/2012
Poetry and prose interspersed with music. The rose speaks love, but also peace, revolution, mysticism and death. Readings by Lindsay Duncan and Iwan Rheon.
Poems, prose and music on the theme of the Rose. Ruby petals, emerald stems: the rose speaks love. Its language is beauty, tenderness and eternity; its colour is passion. But the rose also speaks a less familiar language, that of peace, nationalism and revolution, the strangeness of mysticism and the finality of death. This hymn plucks rare and wild roses for its verses with music by Britten, Delius and Bridge and words by Charles Tomlinson, Dorothy Parker and WB Yeates, read by Lindsay Duncan and Iwan Rheon.
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