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Words and Music: The Fight Between Carnival and Lent

Breaking Free: The Fight Between Carnival and Lent

07/05/2017

The Fight Between Carnival and Lent

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Texts and music inspired by a 1559 Bruegel painting. Readers: Jenny Agutter, Peter Wight.

A sequence of poetry, prose and music inspired by The Fight Between Carnival and Lent, a 1559 oil painting by Pieter Bruegel the Elder. Readers: Jenny Agutter and Peter Wight.

Jenny Agutter and Peter Wight with readings and music inspired by the 1559 oil painting by Pieter Bruegel the Elder.  The painting depicts the folk traditions surrounding Carnival and Lent in the German lands in the early decades of the Reformation. The selection of music and readings explores the more universal struggle, between the desire to eat, drink, and let lose, embodied in Carnival, and the spirit of restraint and self-control personified in Lent. Including readings from Rabelais, Baudelaire, Donne, and Emily Dickinson, and music from Verdi, Mozart, Bach and Penderecki. 

Producer: Luke Mulhall.

First broadcast in May 2017 as part of Radio 3's Breaking Free season of programming exploring the impact of Martin Luther's Revolution.

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