Roderick Swanston asks six leading performers of early music to reveal the personal element in their music making.
5: Julian Bream got his first lute when a sailor sold one to his father in the street for £2. The boy was also given a jazz guitar, but he was determined to play the classical instrument. That determination has seen him through 50 years of hard work: at music college, where neither of his instruments was taught; in concert, where he created a new audience and a new repertoire: in the studios; and on tour, alone or with the Julian Bream Consort. A self-confessed loner, he tends his magnificent garden with the same thoughtful perfectionism he brings to his other great love, music. Music includes:
Dowland Forlorn Hope Fancy; Three Songs
Peter Pears (tenor) Rosseter Sacred End Pavan and Galliard Britten,
arr Bream Dances from "Gloriana"
Falla Homenaje pour le Tombeau de Debussy
Bach, arr Bream Chaconne in D minor