Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert

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Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert: Gurney, Britten and contemporaries

Gurney, Britten and contemporaries

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Tenor Ben Johnson and pianist Llyr Williams present a programme of English song.

From Hoddinott Hall in Cardiff, tenor Ben Johnson and pianist Llyr Williams present a programme of English song.

The third of this week’s recitals from Cardiff is given by tenor Ben Johnson and pianist Llyr Williams. 

Recorded at the BBC’s Hoddinott Hall in Cardiff Bay, their programme explores the rich treasury of English song and folk songs arranged by English composers, including works by Ivor Gurney, Vaughan Williams, and Britten, as well as some of their lesser-known contemporaries. Beginning with Ivor Gurney's setting of "Down by the Salley Gardens", their recital transports us to rural idylls, with elegiac odes, ballads and cautionary tales, before coming full circle with Britten's setting of the same text.

Introduced by Nicola Heywood Thomas

Ivor Gurney:
Down by the Salley Gardens
The Fields are full 
Most holy night
I will go with my father a ploughing 
Sleep   

Elgar:
Speak Music, Op 41 No 2
Pleading, Op 48 No 1   

Vaughan Williams:
Linden Lea 
Silent Noon 

Graham Peel : - The Early Morning 
Maude Valerie White : - The Throstle  
Amy Woodforde Finden: ‘Till I Wake 
Liza Lehman: Henry King (4 Cautionary Tales and a Moral)   

Britten: 
Little Sir William  
Early One Morning  
The Salley Gardens
Oliver Cromwell

Ben Johnson, tenor
Llyr Williams, piano


Produced by Luke Whitlock for BBC Wales.

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