or ' Things As They Are'
A version by Walter Allen and Rayner Heppenstall of the novel by William Godwin
Preludes and Fugues, Op. 87
No. 7. in A; No. 8, in F sharp minor: No. 9 in E: No. 10. in C sharp minor; No. 11, in B; No. 12, in G sharp minor played by James Gibb (piano)
The second of four programmes in which the twenty-four Preludes and Fugues are being played in sequence.
Selected and introduced by Anthony Thwaite
Read by Patrick Garland
Richard Selig died last October aged twenty-seven. He studied under the poet Theodore Roethke at Washington University, and the influence of Roethke is evident in some of his earlier poems After a year as a teaching fellow at Washington he won a Rhodes Scholarship to Magdalen College, Oxford.
This selection is made from the poems Selig wrote in the last three or four years of his life.
Guthrun A. Simonar (soprano)
Clifton Helliwell (piano)
