Breaking Free: The Fight Between Carnival and Lent
Inspired by Bruegel's 1559 painting, Jenny Agutter and Peter Wight read extracts from Rabelais, Baudelaire and Emily Dickinson, and music from Verdi, Mozart, Bach and Penderecki.
Jenny Agutter and Peter Wight with readings and music inspired by the 1559 oil painting by Pieter Bruegel the Elder. The painting depicts the folk traditions surrounding Carnival and Lent in the German lands in the early decades of the Reformation. The selection of music and readings explores the more universal struggle, between the desire to eat, drink, and let lose, embodied in Carnival, and the spirit of restraint and self-control personified in Lent. Including readings from Rabelais, Baudelaire, Donne, and Emily Dickinson, and music from Verdi, Mozart, Bach and Penderecki.
Part of Radio 3's Breaking Free season of programming exploring the impact of Martin Luther's Revolution.
Producer: Luke Mulhall.
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