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Vaughan Williams and the Lost Generation

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Last broadcast on Sun, 9 Nov 2008, 17:00 on BBC Radio 3.

Synopsis

Stephen Johnson is joined by the BBC National Orchestra of Wales and conductor Michael Seal, with violinist Lesley Hatfield and tenor James Gilchrist for an exploration of the English idyll in the light of some of the music to have appeared in the lead-up to the First World War, specifically Butterworth's A Shrophsire Lad and Vaughan Williams's On Wenlock Edge and The Lark Ascending.

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  1. Sun 9 Nov 2008
    17:00
    BBC Radio 3

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An episode from

  1. Discovering Music

Duration

90 minutes

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