Heathcote Williams
2) Whale Nation
3) The Tempest
4) Orlando
5) Paradise
6) Purgatory
The New Testament tells the extraordinary and moving story of the life of Christ and the founding of his Church. This generous selection from the texts which lie at the root of two thousand years of European civilization ranges between the powerful sincerity of the Evangelists and the ecstatic vision of John's New Jerusalem.
Music: Byrd, Britten, Gibbons, Jenkins, Lawes, Schutz, Tallis, Weelkes
This is the poignant and compelling story of perhaps the most naturally gifted musical genius of all time. Copiously illustrated with examples of his music, it tells of Mozart's extraordinary childhood travelling the courts of Europe, and of how, after a brief period of fame in Vienna, his fortunes declined until his early death and last resting-place in a pauper's grave...
Music: Mozart
10) Oedipus the king
'Abandon all hope you who enter here' (Lasciate ogne speranza voi ch'intrate)
Dante’s Hell is one of the most remarkable visions in Western literature. An allegory for his and future ages, it is, at the same time, an account of terrifying realism. Passing under a lintel emblazoned with these frightening words, the poet is led down into the depths by Virgil and shown those doomed to suffer eternal torment for vices exhibited and sins
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