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Composer of the Week: Elisabeth Lutyens (1906-1983)

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1/5. "Elisabeth Lutyens is an outrageous 76-year-old" began a London Evening Standard article in 1982. Donald Macleod celebrates the centenary of her birth and hunts for the truth about this extraordinary figure.

As I Walked Out One Evening - Anthony Rolfe Johnson (tenor), Graham Johnson (piano)

Chamber Concerto No 1 - Jane's Minstrels, conductor Roger Montgomery

The Country of the Stars - Ionian Singers, conductor Timothy Salter

String Quartet No 6 - Aeolian Quartet

Nox - Sarah Nicolls (piano), BBC NOW, conductor Christopher Austin

(Repeated on Sunday at 12 midnight)

RT Direct: Red Leaves, featuring Six Bagatelles and O Saisons, O Chateaux by Elisabeth Lutyens, (1 CD) is available for £13.99 including p&p. To order please send a cheque, payable to Selections, to: [address removed] or phone: [number removed] (national rate), or visit [web address removed] Quote ref: XXX

Contributors

Presenter:
Donald MacLeod
Producer:
Michael Surcombe
Source: Radio Times

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