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Tread Softly, Because You Tread on My Dreams
Live from the Ulster Hall, Belfast,
David Byers introduces a concert for St Patrick's weekend, with Moeran's evocation of the Irish countryside, two settings of WB Yeats from the early twenties, and a symphony by Stanford inspired by the poetry of Milton. "
Mary Hegarty (soprano), Martyn Hill (tenor), Roderick Williams (baritone),
Renaissance, Ulster Orchestra, conductors Vernon Handley and Brian Hunter Moeran In the Mountain Country
Dunhlll The Wind among the Reeds
Norman Hay The Wind among the Reeds
8.50 Twenty Minutes: Thomas Moore -Irish Poet
Nobel Laureate Seamus Heaney , writer Victoria Glendinning and Roy Foster , Professor of Irish History at Oxford, reconsider the poetry and reputation of Irish poet Thomas Moore , who died 150 years ago, and the role he played in the struggle for an independent Ireland.
9.10 Stanford Symphony No 5 (L 'Allegro edilPenseroso)

Contributors

Introduces:
David Byers
Soprano:
Mary Hegarty
Soprano:
Martyn Hill
Tenor:
Roderick Williams
Conductors:
Vernon Handley
Conductors:
Brian Hunter
Unknown:
Norman Hay
Unknown:
Thomas Moore
Unknown:
Seamus Heaney
Unknown:
Victoria Glendinning
Unknown:
Roy Foster
Unknown:
Thomas Moore

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