Jeremy Irons was at Little Gidding Church in Huntingdon, England, on Sunday 9 July 2017. He read the poem Little Gidding.
Thank you to Simon Kershaw, Carry Akroyd and the TS Eliot Society for the photos.
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Jeremy Irons was the Artist in Residence at the 2016 Ryedale Festival. Jeremy read T.S. Eliot and appeared alongside The Heath Quartet, who performed selections by Beethoven.
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A Meeting of Minds: T.S. Eliot and Beethoven’s Late Quartets I
Long Gallery, Castle Howard – 19 July 2016
Jeremy Irons (reader)
Heath Quartet
Beethoven – Quartet no. 12 in E flat (op. 127)
T.S. Eliot – Burnt Norton
Beethoven – Quartet no. 13 in B flat (op. 130)
A Meeting of Minds: TS Eliot and Beethoven’s Late Quartets II
Jeremy Irons (reader)
Heath Quartet
TS. Eliot – East Coker
Beethoven – Quartet no. 14 in C sharp minor (op. 131)
T. S. Eliot and Beethovens
Late Quartets III
Jeremy Irons (reader)
Heath Quartet
T. S. Eliot – The Dry Salvages
Beethoven – Quartet no. 15 in A minor (op. 132)
A Meeting of Minds:
T. S. Eliot and Beethoven’s Late Quartets IV
Jeremy Irons (reader)
Heath Quartet
Beethoven – Quartet no. 16 in F major (op. 135)
T. S. Eliot – Little Gidding
Beethoven – Grosse Fuge (op. 133)
BBC Radio 4 iPlayer – link to the original recording
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The text of ‘Four Quartets’ may be found HERE.
Jeremy Irons reads Four Quartets by T.S.Eliot.
Four Quartets is the culminating achievement of T.S. Eliot’s career as a poet. While containing some of the most musical and unforgettable passages in twentieth-century poetry, its four parts, ‘Burnt Norton’, ‘East Coker’, ‘The Dry Salvages’ and ‘Little Gidding’, present a rigorous meditation on the spiritual, philosophical and personal themes which preoccupied the author. It was the way in which a private voice was heard to speak for the concerns of an entire generation, in the midst of war and doubt, that confirmed it as an enduring masterpiece.
With an introduction by Michael Symmons Roberts, Lord David Alton and Gail McDonald.

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