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The Marriage of Freedom and Fate

on BBC Radio 3

A sound poem on themes from the life and work of Beethoven with Anthony Hopkins as Beethoven
Voices of Beethoven's contemporaries GARY WATSON
GARARD GREEN, LEWIS STRINGER NIGEL LAMBERT , DENIS COACHER
SHEILA GRANT , PATRICIA GALLIMORE and CAROLE BOYD
Commentary/chorus Jill Balcon and David March
Text from Beethoven's own words and those of his contemporaries: commentary from T. S. Eliot 's Four Quartets and Friedrich Heer 's Europuischer Geistesgeschichte ; music from the works of Beethoven, Dufay, Josquin des Pres, Monteverdi, Bach. Handel, Mozart, Haydn, Schubert, Stockhausen and the Gregorian chant of the Roman Catholic liturgy.
Special sound by DICK MILLS, BBC RADIOPHONIC WORKSHOP
Production team DAVID BINNET JOHN TALBOT JONES , PETER JAMES and ANDREW MUSSET
Composed and produced by MICHAEL MASON

Contributors

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Anthony Hopkins
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Gary Watson
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Lewis Stringer
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Nigel Lambert
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Denis Coacher
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Sheila Grant
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Patricia Gallimore
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Carole Boyd
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Jill Balcon
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T. S. Eliot
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Friedrich Heer
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Europuischer Geistesgeschichte
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David Binnet
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John Talbot Jones
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Peter James
Produced By:
Michael Mason

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