by Ralph Vaughan Williams (born 12 October 1872)
A setting for tenor, piano, and string quartet of six poems from A. E. Housman's
A Shropshire Lad
Singer Ryland Davies
Players: Colin Staveley (violin), Clive Lander (violin), Geoffrey York (viola), John Cullis (cello) and Martin Jones (piano)
Actors: Victoria Plucknett and John Ogwen
On the centenary of the composer's birth, this is an impression of the song-cycle, filmed in Shropshire in the spring and summer of this year.
(BBC Wales)
(Radio Times People: page 4)