DURRELL: Balthazar

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Balthazar (more info)
Composed by: Lawrence Durrell
Nigel Anthony, reader
Produced by: Soames, Nicolas


1. 'A memory catches sight of itself in the mirror' - 8:16
2. Balthazar returns with a large packet - 4:00
3.   The Interlinear - new truths, painful truths - 3:14
4. The literary society in the Ptolemaic parlour - 4:21
5.   Scobie and some secrets - 12:49
6.   Nessim, Mountolive - and Justine - 4:47
7.   Balthazar warns Clea - 4:20
8. Justine - A painting and a kiss - 9:44
9. 'The most dangerous thing in the world is a love founded on pity' - 2:54
10. Nessim leaves for Karm Abu Girg - 4:09
11. Narouz - the younger brother - 9:25
12. Their mother, Leila - 4:30
13. Leila, once beautiful and rich - 6:53

Balthazar (more info)
Composed by: Lawrence Durrell
Nigel Anthony, reader
Produced by: Soames, Nicolas


1. A gallop - Nessim confides in Narouz - 5:58
2. Nessim leaves for the city - 5:41
3.   The Interlinear: 'To imagine is not necessarily to invent' - 12:58
4. Pursewarden - the writer - 5:08
5.   Justine - a love affair begins - 7:55
6.   Love - a whole vocabulary of adjectives - 13:01
7.   Justine's laughter - 10:43
8. Narouz decides to act - 8:56
9. Magzub and a vision - 5:22
10. Narouz reports to Nessim - 2:25

Balthazar (more info)
Composed by: Lawrence Durrell
Nigel Anthony, reader
Produced by: Soames, Nicolas


1. The death of Scobie - 5:58
2. Pombal's complications - 7:10
3.   Balthazar's Interlinear continues - 6:56
4. The carnival in Alexandria - 8:48
5.   With dominoes in place, they set out for fun - 9:05
6.   Toto, Pursewarden, Spumante, Mountolive - 6:17
7.   An expected surprise - a death - 7:40
8. Justine's echo: Time immemorial - 6:34
9. Clea reveals her encounter with Narouz - 7:54
10. A letter from Clea - 4:35
11. A letter from Pursewarden - 1:40
12. The oil in the lamp is low - 5:54

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