24 October 2006
Tuesday 24 October 2006 16:00-17:00 (Radio 3)
Featuring song cycles by three English composers.
Playlist
Jonathan Lemalu (bass baritone), Iain Burnside (piano)
Presenter: Iain Burnside
Producer: Clive Portbury
Broadcast Assistant: Patrick Johns
First broadcast on 25 March 2003
Ralph Vaughan Williams (text by Robert Louis Stevenson)
'Songs of Travel' (21'41")
1. The Vagabond
2. Let Beauty Awake
3. The Roadside Fire
4. Youth and Love
5. In Dreams
6. The Infinite Shining Heavens
7. Whither must I Wander?
8. Bright is the Ring of Words
9. I have Trod the Upward and the Downward Slope
George Butterworth
'Six songs from A Shropshire Lad' (12'37")
1. When I Was One-And-Twenty
2. Loveliest of Trees
3. Look not In My Eyes
4. Think No More, Lad
5. The Lads in Their Hundreds
6. Is My Team Ploughing?
Gerald Finzi
From 'Before and After Summer' (text by Thomas Hardy) Op.16:
No.8 'Epeisodia' (1'57")
No.4 'Overlooking the River' (2'33")
Gerald Finzi
'I Said to Love' (text by Thomas Hardy) Op.19b (13'10")
1. I need not go
2. At Middle-Field Gate in February
3. Two Lips
4. In Five-Score Summers
5. For life I never cared greatly
6. I said to love
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