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Words and Music

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To Music
Diana Rigg and Samuel West read a selection of poetry on the theme of music including Elizabeth Jennings 's First Music,
Andrew Marvell 's The Empire of Music, DH Lawrence 's Piano and TS Eliot's Four Quartets. WB Yeats is also heard reading his poem The Fiddler of Donney. Music includes Webern's arrangement of Bach's Musical Offering and songs by Dowland and Schubert. Plus Seamus Heaney 's reading of The Given Note, accompanied by the piper Liam O'Flynn. EMAIL: wordsandmusic@bbc.co.uk
For details of the music and verse heard in this programme, visit www.bbc.co.uk/radio3/wordsand music

Contributors

Music:
Diana Rigg
Music:
Samuel West
Unknown:
Elizabeth Jennings
Music:
Andrew Marvell
Music:
Dh Lawrence
Unknown:
Seamus Heaney
Unknown:
Liam O'Flynn.
Source: Radio Times

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Live music and the arts: broadcasts more live music than any other radio network. Classical music is its core. Genres include world and new music, jazz, speech and drama.

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