Five Poets
With Peggy Reynolds.
3: Keats. John Keats was in many ways the picture of the Romantic poet. He was ardent and sensitive; he wrote intensively over a very short period, producing a series of masterpieces; and he died young, even by the standards of the day. Music includes excerpts from: Bridge The Devon Maid
Jamie MacDougall (tenor), Roger Vignoles (piano) Hoist Choral Symphony
Felicity Palmer (soprano), London Philharmonic Choir and Orchestra, conductor Adrian Boult
Mendelssohn Hebrides Overture
(Fingal's Cave) Philharmonia Orchestra, conductor Walter Weller
Stanford La Belle Dame sans Merci
Janet Baker (mezzo), Gerald Moore (piano)