by Peter Porter
An autobiographical poem for music and three voices
Like Orpheus in Hell, he had music with him.
Music is the holiest of the arts,
It waits on an island always new
And everlastingly the same.
The voices: KENNETH CRANHAM, GARY WATSON, STEPHEN MURRAY
Recorded music taken from the works of Mahler, Haydn, Mozart, Bach, Josquin des Prés, Schubert and Strauss
Additional music composed and conducted by STEPHEN OLIVER
Technical presentation by JOHN WHITEHALL, assisted by ANNE HUNT
Directed by PATRICIA BRENT
A threnody for life and love (THE LISTENER) A dense, painful and unlikely programme, which used the full skill of one art to praise another.
(NEW STATESMAN)