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Words and Music

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Transfigured Night. This unpresented sequence of poetry and music takes Richard Dehmel 's poem Transfigured Night as a starting point for a theme around night and dreams. Simon Russell Beale and Emma Fielding read a selection from Longfellow, Poe, Milton and Gerald Manley Hopkins, with archive readings by Dylan Thomas and Michael Longley. Music includes
Schoenberg's Verklarte Nacht, Ravel's Gaspard de la Nuit and Takemitsu's Dreamtime. 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

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Richard Dehmel
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Simon Russell
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Gerald Manley
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Dylan Thomas
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Michael Longley.
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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