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Labyrinth

Texts and music focusing on the idea of the labyrinth, with readings by Anna Maxwell Martin and Rory Kinnear. With George Herbert, Borges, plus Monk, Part, Satie and Bach.

What lies at the heart of the labyrinth? Minotaur or man? Fear or delight? We're all fascinated by labyrinths - whether they're an impenetrable jumble of box hedges in the garden of a stately home or the multiplying reflections in a hall of mirrors. We move through them at the speed of dreams - sometimes as quick as a flicker of lightning sometimes as slow as the drift of sand in an hour glass. From inside they can appear both menacing and beguiling. From outside they can be treated as an engaging puzzle but one where the solution is never in doubt. This evening - should you accept their invitation - you can join Rory Kinnear and Anna Maxwell Martin in a maze of words and music. Along the way you are likely to bump into George Herbert, Thelonious Monk, Arvo Part, Erik Satie, Jorge Luis Borges, Edwin Muir, Bach and Francis Seyrig - some of them more than once....even if you don't lose your way or your nerve.

1 hour, 15 minutes

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Sun 27 Mar 2011 22:15
Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Radio 3

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Timings (where shown) are from the start of the programme in hours and minutes

  • 00:00

    Francis Seyrig

    Solitude (From Original Sound track of L'annee derniere a Marienbad)

    Performer: Marie-Louise Girod

    • Philips.

  • Alain Robbe-Grillet

    Extract from In the Labyrinth read by Anna Maxwell Martin

  • 00:01

    Orchestre national du Capitole de Toulouse

    Gnossienne Number 6

    Performer: Reinbert De Leeuw

    • Philips 4466722.

  • Alain Robbe-Grillet

    Extract from In the Labyrinth read by Anna Maxwell Martin

  • 00:05

    György Kurtág

    Wiederum, wiederum( Kafka Fragmente)

    Performer: Juliane Banse , Andras Keller

    • ECM New Series 1965 476 3099.

  • Jorge Luis Borges

    Covered Mirrors from Collected Fictions read by Rory Kinnear

  • 00:10

    Arvo Pärt

    Spiegel im Spiegel

    Performer: Tamsin Little, Martin Roscoe, Bournemouth Sinfonietta

    • EMI Classics.

  • Italo Calvino

    Extract from If on a Winters Night a Traveller read by Rory Kinnear

  • 00:21

    Harrison Birtwistle

    The Minotaur

    Performer: John Tomlinson, The Royal Opera Chorus, The Orchestra of the Royal Opera House, cond. Antonio Pappaono

    • From a live performance transmitted on Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Radio 3 on Saturday 21st May 2008..

  • Samuel Menashe

    Old Mirror from New and Selected Poems read by Anna Maxwell Martin

  • 00:29

    Naked City( Bill Frisell, Fred Frith)

    Back Through the Looking Glass

    Performer: Naked City

    • AVANT AVANT001.

  • Ludwig Wittgenstein

    An extract from Philosophical Investigations read by Rory Kinnear

  • 00:32

    Thelonious Monk

    Brilliant Corners

    Performer: Thelonious Monk, Sonny Rollins, Ernie Henry, Oscar Pettiford , Max Roach

    • Keepnews Collection RCD30501.

  • Lewis Carroll

    From Alice in Wonderland read by Anna Maxwell Martin

  • 00:42

    Johann Sebastian Bach

    Kleines Harmonisches Labyrinth

    Performer: Werner Jacob

    • EMI 5738782.

  • George Herbert

    The Pearl from The Complete English Poems read by Rory Kinnear

  • 00:48

    Paul Giger

    Labyrinth

    Performer: Paul Giger

    • ECM 8377522.

  • Dana Gioia

    Maze without a Minotaur from The Gods of Winter read by Rory Kinnear

  • 00:59

    Paul Simon

    Patterns

    Performer: Paul Simon , Art Garfunkel

    • CBS CD62825.

  • Edwin Muir

    The Labyrinth from Selected Poems read by Anna Maxwell Martin

  • 01:08

    Francis Seyrig

    Solitude (From Original Sound track of L'annee derniere a Marienbad)

    Performer: Marie-Louise Girod

    • Philips.

  • Alain Robbe-Grillet

    Extract from the end of In the Labyrinth read by Anna Maxwell Martin

  • 01:10

    Orchestre national du Capitole de Toulouse

    Gnossienne Number 4

    Performer: Reinbert De Leeuw

    • Philips 4466722.

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  • Sun 27 Mar 2011 22:15
    Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Radio 3

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