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Voices fromArcadia

on BBC Radio 2

The third of six programmes in which
Georgina Boyes looks at the history of folk song collecting. She concentrates on two of the most famous English folk songs. Brigg Fair was collected by Percy Grainger in 1908 and later adapted into an orchestral rhapsody by Frederick Delius , while other folk songs collected at the time were arranged by Grainger into A
Lincolnshire Posy. Also a history of Scarborough Fair. Producer David Corser

Contributors

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Georgina Boyes
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Percy Grainger
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Frederick Delius
Producer:
David Corser

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