Five Poets
With Peggy Reynolds.
1: Tennyson. Alfred Tennyson was Queen Victoria's favourite poet and the grand old man of English poetry, who was made Poet Laureate at the age of 50. His career spanned the greater part of the 19th century and, in his old age, he received an endless stream of visitors - sometimes composers, sometimes tourists who would turn up at his house just to stare. By the time he died in 1892, there was a whole Tennyson industry. Music includes excerpts from: Hoist The Princess
Hoist Singers, conductor Stephen Layton
Britten Serenade for Tenor, Horn and Strings Martyn Hill (tenor),
Frank Lloyd (horn), City of London Sinfonia, conductor Richard Hickox
Strauss Enoch Arden
Claude Rains (speaker), Glenn Gould (piano) Parry Lotus Eaters
Delia Jones (soprano), London
Philharmonic Choir and Orchestra, conductor Matthias Bamert
Producer Tony Sellors
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