Benjamin Luxon (baritone) David Willison (piano) Part 1 Butterworth
Six Songs from A Shropshire Lad: Loveliest of trees; When I was one-and-twenty; Look not in my eyes; Think no more; The lads in their hundreds; Is my team ploughing?
Bredon Hill: Five Songs from A Shropshire Lad: Bredon Hill; Oh. fair enough are sky and plain; When the lad for longing sighs; On the idle hill of summer; With rue my heart is laden
10.35* Interval Reading
10.40* Music from Pebble Mill
Part 2 William Alwyn Six Nocturnes: Everything is now; Summer rain; Visitation; Summer night: Circle; Response (first broadcast performance) Wolf Auf einer Wanderung; Um Mitternacht; Der Tambour; Auf ein altes Bild; Gesang Weylas; Selbstgestandnis; Bei einer Trauung; Storchenbotschaft (Morike Lieder)
(Before an invited audience at the Broadcasting Centre. Birmingham Tickets from: Room 305, Broadcasting Centre, PO Box 168, Pebble Mill Road, Birmingham B5 7QQ)