Between 1910-20 there were upheavals in Brian's life: a broken marriage, a falling-out with his rich patron, and strange wartime experiences satirised in his remarkable anti-war opera The Tigers. The programme also features the first-ever commercial recording of a Brian symphony, made in the last year of his life, 1972. Presented by Donald Macleod in conversation with Malcolm MacDonald.
He Was a Rat
BBC Singers, conductor Ronald Corp Why Dost Thou Wound and Break My Heart; Piping down the Valleys Wild Brian RaynerCook (baritone), Roger Vignoles (piano)
Prologue on Hampstead Heath (The
Tigers) (excerpt) Soloists, BBC Singers, BBC Symphony Orchestra, conductor Lionel Friend
Symphonic Variations on "Has Anybody Here Seen Kelly?" Luxembourg RSO, conductor Leopold Hager
Love Is a Merry Game; The Defiled
Sanctuary Brian Rayner Cook (baritone), Roger Vignoles (piano)
Symphony No 10 Leicestershire Schools SO, conductor James Loughran When Icicles Hang by the Wall Brian Rayner Cook (baritone), Roger Vignoles (piano)