BBC R3 - Iliad - War Music

BBC R3 - Christopher Logue's 'War Music' [Books 16-19 of Homer's Iliad]

Music by Donald Frazer

Technical Presentation by Adrian Revel

Directed by Liane Aukin

First broadcast 1981.

Re-broadcast February 8, 1992 [this recording]

Coded from tape at 128/44.1



Alan Howard performing 'War Music', Christopher Logue's

'Account of Books 16-19 of Homer's Iliad' - the deaths

of Petrocolus, Hector, and Achilles.



Logue makes Homer immediate. Howard makes Homer live.



Beyond praise - simply astonishing.

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More information about this production:



http://www.alanhoward.org.uk/iliad.htm



https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_Music_(poem)