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Fugue - an adventure with the actors Adjoa Andoh and Peter Marinker where the musical form counterpoints the psychological state, where Sylvia Plath sits next to Johann Sebastian Bach and Dylan Thomas makes room for Darius Milhaud.

Producer: Zahid Warley.

1 hour, 15 minutes

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Sun 23 Aug 2015 17:30
大象传媒 Radio 3

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Timings (where shown) are from the start of the programme in hours and minutes

  • 00:00

    Friedrich Gulda

    Prelude from Prelude and Fugue

    Performer: Friedrich Gulda.
    • Philips 4121152.
    • Tr3.

  • Sylvia Plath

    Mad Girl聮s Love Song read by Adjoa Andoh

  • 00:00

    Darius Milhaud

    La Cr茅ation du Monde, Op. 81, 2nd movement

    Performer: Ulster Orchestra, Yan Pascal Tortelier (conductor).
    • Chandos CHAN9023.
    • Tr14.

  • Theodore Roethke

    The Waking read by Peter Marinker

  • 00:06

    B茅la Bart贸k

    Music for Strings, Percussion and Celesta

    Performer: RIAS Symphonie Orchester Berlin, Ferenc Fricsay (conductor).
    • Deutsche Grammophon 4376752.
    • Tr1.

  • Anne Ridler

    Villanelle for the Middle of the Way read by Adjoa Andoh

  • 00:14

    Hector Berlioz

    Villanelle from Les Nuits d聮茅t茅

    Performer: R茅gine Crespin.
    • Decca 4609732.
    • Tr1.

  • W. H. Auden

    If I could tell you read by Peter Marinker

  • 00:17

    Paul Dukas

    Villanelle for Horn and Piano (1906)

    Performer: Dennis Brain (horn) and Gerald Moore (piano).
    • Testament SBT1022.
    • Tr15.

  • Wendy Cope

    Lonely Hearts read by Adjoa Andoh

  • 00:25

    Johann Sebastian Bach

    Chromatic Fantasia and Fugue (arr. By Busoni for Cello and Pino, 1917)

    Performer: Lowri Blake (Cello) and Caroline Palmer (Piano).
    • Etcetera KTC1180.
    • Tr13.

  • William Empson

    Missing Dates read by Peter Marinker

  • 00:32

    Johann Sebastian Bach

    Ricercar a 6 from Musical Offering

    Performer: Stuttgarter Kammerorchester, Karl Munchinger (conductor).
    • Decca 4672672.
    • Tr19.

  • Paul Celan translated by John Felstiner

    Todesfuge read by Peter Marinker

  • 00:44

    Dmitry Shostakovich

    Prelude and Fugue Number 22 in G minor

    Performer: Tatiana Nikolayeva.
    • Melodiya 74321198492.
    • CD3 Tr6.
  • 00:47

    Leonard Cohen 聳 words by Frank Scott

    Villanelle For Our Time

    Performer: Leonard Cohen.
    • Columbia 5147682.
    • Tr7.

  • Constantine Cavafy

    Waiting for the Barbarians read by Adjoa Andoh

  • 00:55

    Dmitry Shostakovich

    Prelude and Fugue Number 22 in G minor

    Performer: Tatiana Nikolayeva.
    • Melodiya 74321198492.
    • CD3 Tr6.

  • Dylan Thomas

    Do not go gentle read by Adjoa Andoh

  • 01:01

    Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Kyrie eleison from Requiem

    Performer: John Alldis choir, London Symphony Orchestra, Sir Colin Davis (conductor).
    • Philips 4388002.
    • CD2 Tr8.

  • Paul Muldoon

    Milkweed and Monarch read by Peter Marinker

  • 01:06

    George Frideric Handel

    Amen from The Messiah

    Performer: The Sixteen, Harry Christophers (conductor).
    • Coro COR16062.
    • CD2 Tr31.

  • Elizabeth Bishop

    One Art, read by Adjoa Andoh

  • 01:10

    Friedrich Gulda

    Prelude from Prelude and Fugue

    Performer: Friedrich Gulda.
    • Philips 4121152.
    • Tr3.

Producer's Notes - Fugue

聽聽聽聽聽聽聽 Fugue has two quite distinct meanings.聽 In music it refers to a contrapuntal composition in which a short melody or phrase is taken up, developed and interwoven. In psychiatry it describes the state of mind of someone who loses their sense of identity鈥� quite often wandering off to another place and assuming another character until the condition is reversed. This evening鈥檚 Words and Music flirts with both definitions. There is a strong formal element which relies on a certain structural consistency in both the music and the words. The programme begins with Friedrich Gulda鈥檚聽 jazzy prelude and finishes with its accompanying聽 fugue. The words begin with the world- creating and world-obliterating idealism of Sylvia Plath鈥檚 Mad Girl鈥檚 Love Song and finishes with One Art by Elizabeth Bishop where irony and聽 the creative impulse keeps the world and self in some kind of equilibrium. Between the beginning and the end there is room for Milhaud, Bartok, Berlioz, Busoni, Bach, Mozart, Shostakovich and Handel as well as the poetry of Theodore Roethke, W. H. Auden, William Empson, Paul Muldoon, Dylan Thomas and one or two others...scope in fact to lose yourself in a maze of considerations and moods but still find a way out ready to begin again.

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