Iliad, The
Author : Homer
Performed By : Anton Lesser
Publisher : Select Music & Distribution
Runtime : 4 hours
Categories : Poetry
Classic Literature
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Perhaps the greatest poem of the Western world, The Iliad tells the story of fifty critical days towards the end of the Trojan war. Achilles has quarrelled with Agamemnon and sulks in his tent, while Hector brings his Trojans to the brink of victory; but fate will have the last word...
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Hymn: Alan Bennett And The Medici String Quartet
Author : Alan Bennett and George Fenton
Performed By : Alan Bennett
Publisher : BBC Audiobooks Ltd
Runtime : 50 minutes
Categories : Biographical
Music Related
Comedy
Biographical
Non Fiction
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'I am one of those boys, state-educated in the Forties and Fifties, who came by the words of Hymns Ancient and Modern by singing them day in, day out in school every morning at assembly. It's a dwindling band... you con pick us out at funerals and memorial services because we can sing the hymns without the book'
To mark their 30th anniversary, the Medici Quartet asked composer George Fenton and writer Alan Bennett to collaborate on a piece for performance at the Harrogate International Festival. The result was Hymn, a meditative piece, by turns funny and
melancholy, in which Bennett looks at the part which music played in his childhood, at his father's doomed attempts to teach him the violin, and at what hymns mean to him now. The illustrative suite for strings, played by the Medici Quartet , draws on a range of musical references including Elgar, Delius and several well-known hymns. Recorded in front of an audience at the BBC Radio Theatre, Hymn is prefaced by an introduction from the author.
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