around 2.50pm today on BBC Radio 3, the recording of Alec Roth's and Vikram Seth's Shared Ground, taken at the 2007 Lichfield Festival, will finally be broadcast. Performed by Ex Cathedra, and with interjections from violinist Philippe Honore performing Roth's Ponticelli for solo violin, these pieces were musically inspired by the solo violin and double choir works of J S Bach with Vikram's texts based on George Herbert. If you are listening earlier you'll also hear Ex Cathedra perform Bach's Komm, Jesu, Komm!, BWV229.The poem above both captures and represents the image of a lone oak tree reflected in a small lake of still water, with the tree existing above and below the water line. Below is the actual oak tree referred to in Seth's poem, but without the reflection from the storm the evening before. More of Seth's Shared Ground poems with an interview can be found here.
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Here is the link for the listen again of the show for the next six days - http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/console/b00hwwx2
Bach starts at 52mins. Roth starts at 1hour 2mins.
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