Discovering Music

Percy Grainger

Folk Songs

Saturday 2 July 2005 14:00-15:00 (Radio 3)

Stephen Johnson is joined by award-winning traditional folk singer Martin Carthy for a look at the imaginative ways in which Percy Grainger and Ralph Vaughan Williams used folk song material in their compositions. The programme includes a complete performance of Five Variants on Dives and Lazarus by Vaughan Williams.

Read a profile of Vaughan Williams

For rights reasons we are not able to keep this edition available as an online audio archive but it is available to listen to again in the Radio Player for seven days after broadcast.

Duration:

1 hour

2 July 2005

Listen to the programme

Playlist

Grainger: Ye Banks and Braes O'Bonnie Doon
Grainger: Passacaglia for orchestra - "Green Bushes"
Vaughan Williams: Five Variants on Dives and Lazarus

BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra
Martin Carthy (folk singer)
Christopher Austin (conductor)

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