Judith Weir: Telling the Tale

Songs and Tales

Sunday 20 January 2008 14:00-14:50 (Radio 3)

Tom Service introduces a concert live from LSO St Luke's, London.

Songs and their role in storytelling have supplied Weir with many creative ideas. Here she explores everything from timeless Chinese wisdom to Serbian, Scottish and Spanish folk poetry, and in The Voice of Desire the poems by Bridges, Keats and Hardy are conversations between humans and birds - where the birds seem more sophisticated than their human listeners.

As a contrast, Susan Bickley and Andrew Kennedy with Iain Burnside present British folksongs arranged by an earlier generation of song composers.

Duration:

50 minutes

Playlist:

Susan Bickley (mezzo-soprano)
Andrew Kennedy (tenor)
Iain Burnside (piano)

Weir: Songs from the Exotic
Arr. Grainger: Bold William Taylor; The Sprig of Thyme
Arr. G Butterworth: A Blacksmith courted me
Weir: On buying a horse
FG Scott: O wha my babie clouts will buy? The Eemis Stane; The Sauchs in the Reuch Heuch Hauch
Weir: Scotch Minstrelsy

Judith Weir: Telling the Tale

Episode and Playlist Information

• 20 Jan 08 Woman. Life. Song.
• 20 Jan 08 Songs and Tales Pt.2
• 20 Jan 08 Judith Weir Speaks
• 20 Jan 08 Songs and Tales Pt.1
• 19 Jan 08 Art of Chamber Pt.2
• 19 Jan 08 Art of Chamber Pt.1

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