:T.S. Eliot's Four Quartets, read by Jeremy Irons: I. Burnt Norton (extracts of)

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  • Опубліковано 2 сер 2024
  • Jeremy Irons read for BBC 4 a number of T.S Eliot poems. All episodes available here:
    jeremyirons.net/2017/01/20/je...
    Music used:
    0:00 An Pierle - Solid rain theme (Le tout nouveau testament OST)
    1:00 Senju Akira - Kojin no shi (anime Red Garden OST)
    Painting by August Malmström, "Dancing Fairies"

КОМЕНТАРІ • 31

  • @CDS-pb4ng
    @CDS-pb4ng 4 роки тому +8

    Great poetry, great actor and appropriate music...Well done!!!

  • @BetaCummins
    @BetaCummins 6 років тому +13

    Eliot by Irons: Simply superb.

  • @RidgeRose
    @RidgeRose 4 роки тому +5

    Utterly beautiful! Thank you!

  • @navidhasan123
    @navidhasan123 3 роки тому +1

    absolutely amazing!

  • @94josema
    @94josema 6 років тому +4

    Thank you, I love these vids

  • @catarinafaro
    @catarinafaro 6 місяців тому

    Bravo.

  • @soleaguirre100
    @soleaguirre100 5 років тому +1

    hermosa voz! 💫💫💫💫

  • @margaretfalde
    @margaretfalde 5 років тому +6

    Everybody:THIS IS MAGNIFICENT!
    Me: OMIGAWD! SCAR IS READING T.S.ELIOT!

  • @twshunt
    @twshunt 4 роки тому +12

    What is the name of the background song? Also, as an aside, I saw Jeremy Irons live in Oxford doing a ready of the Four Quartets recently and it was lovely. The only problem is that I have become so used to listening to excerpts of his with music like this that I felt rather spoiled when there was no accompanying music! Thanks so much for putting this up. I must have listened to it over a hundred times.

    • @waisehell
      @waisehell  4 роки тому

      Music in the description.

    • @raniahelmybedeir439
      @raniahelmybedeir439 4 роки тому

      :An Pierlé: Solid Rain theme, Le tout nouveau testament OST

    • @cufflink44
      @cufflink44 2 роки тому

      My reaction is very different. I find the music distracting and irrelevant. The music is already there in the poetry.

  • @ivantiynovak
    @ivantiynovak 4 роки тому +3

    @waisehell your T.S. Eliot collection is beautiful beyond description. Would you do the same for all the other pieces Irons recorded for the BBC?

  • @tonypatriarche3791
    @tonypatriarche3791 5 років тому +3

    SO much better than Eliot himself "reading the news".

    • @waisehell
      @waisehell  5 років тому +4

      writing poems and reciting poems can be two very different trades

    • @2msvalkyrie529
      @2msvalkyrie529 Рік тому

      And many times better than Ralph
      Fiennes ( available elsewhere ) .!
      Absolutely awful !!

  • @LizatHome
    @LizatHome 6 років тому

    Is there a chance that you could make a video listing the poems in the order they are read please? I bought the Audiobook but there is not titles list, just chapters with no names and I like to know what I am listening to.

    • @waisehell
      @waisehell  6 років тому +1

      I haven't bought the audiobook since the readings are available on his website but on amazon it says "originally broadcast on BBC Radio 4," so I am assuming the audiobook has the same order as the radio episodes. You can see this listing on Irons' website: jeremyirons.net/2017/01/20/jeremy-irons-reads-ts-eliot/
      Let me know if it checks out.

    • @LizatHome
      @LizatHome 6 років тому

      waisehell Thanks very much.

  • @tomwaitsfornomanuk5816
    @tomwaitsfornomanuk5816 3 роки тому +4

    Be great to have these without the music

    • @waisehell
      @waisehell  3 роки тому

      They're on Jeremy Irons' website, free to listen to.

  • @Legnerps
    @Legnerps 3 роки тому

    But a fabulous performance!!

  • @marcossa698
    @marcossa698 5 років тому +6

    Lana Del Rey

  • @bendigeidfran1282
    @bendigeidfran1282 5 років тому +7

    I find the background music very distracting.

  • @henrigaziel2002
    @henrigaziel2002 3 роки тому +5

    The music adds absolutely nothing.

  • @Legnerps
    @Legnerps 3 роки тому

    Interesting concepts and cọnecture amid a fair amount of obscure .... nonsense.

    • @matthewstokes1608
      @matthewstokes1608 Рік тому

      Hey everyone, wake up! ... "30 Meadowbrook" (...??!??!?....) thinks Eliot's Four Quartets are "obscure... nonsense".
      Now, "30 Meadowbrook" does deign to accept in his magnanimity, however, that this poor poet's lowly mind may, at a stretch, have dealt out some lines of passing, moderate worth - and some "interesting concepts and conjecture" - but the work as a whole is clear mediocrity at best... Not up to scratch, you see, in terms of a serious intelligence.
      Alert the press.
      Everyone, take notice of this new great and impressive voice in time.
      This Eliot fellow may have once been of interest to a few ignorant and lesser informed halfwits (who called themselves the great minds of his time) but compared to "30 Meadowbrook", well... Now, we are finally witnessing a critical voice of serious aplomb - one of impeccable judgement concerning such weighty matters as just what precisely may - and what precisely may not - be construed as MASSIVE AND EXQUISITE BEYOND COMPARISON in the canon of 20th Century World Art, and a singular example - primus inter pares - of those highest creations of human excellence that have ever been committed to print in all Time.
      Forget about T S Eliot, you fools, for God's sake - because "30 Meadowbrook" has delivered us his most recent tome in one single line of grandeur... Oh, the intellectual weight of this new sage among us hereby eradicates those hours of musical majesty you may have mistakenly fallen victim to by permitting your emotions to get the better of you in the past.
      All hail the new maestro.
      (...you tit)