by FREDERICK BRADNUM
Music by HUMPHREY SEARLE
Isaac Rosenberg was killed at the Western
Front on 1 April 1918. He was 28 years old.
Trained as a painter and craftsman, he was a Londoner of Jewish origins, and with a strong East End Jewish background. A quiet, unassuming person, he was the only Great War poet of any consequence not to hold a commission. His three greatest poems of that war, ' Break of Day in the Trenches
Dead Man's Dump ' and 1 Returning, We Hear the Lark ', almost tell of a day in the trenches. with STEPHEN GARLICK , DAVID GOODERSON , STEVE HODSON , CRAWFORD LOGAN and BRIAN BURROWS (tenor) SINFONIA OF LONDON conducted by the composer Directed by IAN COTTERELL (David Suchet is an associate artist of the RSC)