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Words and Music: The Wedding

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The Wedding

17/07/2011

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Texts and music related to weddings. Readings by Anna Maxwell Martin and Jamie Glover.

Texts and music related to weddings, with readings by Anna Maxwell Martin and Jamie Glover. With Shakespeare, Keats, Austen and Dickens, plus Wagner, Mendelssohn and Saint-Saens.

This week's Words and Music leads you up the aisle with a series of poetry, prose and music around the theme of the wedding. From the bridal marches of Wagner and Mendelssohn - the soundtracks to countless walks up the aisle - to Saint-Saëns' confection of piano and strings in the Wedding Cake Valse-Caprice, the joyful ritual of the wedding ceremony has inspired some timeless music. Anna Maxwell Martin and Jamie Glover read work which explores the enduring romance of wedded bliss and the darker moments of married life. Poetry by Shakespeare and Keats meditates on the nature of love and takes us to a sumptuous Grecian wedding feast; while Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice returns us to a time of marriage as an aid to social mobility and Dickens' Great Expectations introduces us to one of literature's most haunting brides: the jilted Miss Haversham, who resides in her faded wedding dress alongside the clock which stopped at twenty to nine on her wedding day, the moment she discovered her heart had been broken.

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