Paul Guinery looks atthe work of American choral conductor Philip Brunelle , founder of the Plymouth Music Series of Minnesota. The first part of tonight's programme is a recording of a concert of English music given in Minneapolis last month, featuring a major work by Giles Swayne and the premiere of an elegiac new work by Richard Rodney Bennett.
Hoist This Have / Done for My True Love John Gardner Robin Adair
James MacMillan Christus Vincit Vaughan Williams Valiant for Truth The Ensemble Singers, conductor Philip Brunelle Swayne The Silent Land
Richard Rodney Bennett A Farewell to Arms Raphael Wallfisch (cello), the Ensemble Singers with members of the Plymouth
Series Chorus, conductor Philip Brunelle Eskil Hemberg Anthem: Thou Art over Us; Psalm 106 The Ensemble Singers, conductor Philip Brunelle
Britten Paul Bunyan (closing scene) Dan Dressen (tenor), Plymouth Music Series soloists, chorus and orchestra, conductor Philip Brunelle