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Sarah Connolly and Ian Bostridge sing Vaughan Williams and Chausson

Two of Britain's most celebrated singers, Sarah Connolly and Ian Bostridge, join Julius Drake at the piano and the Carducci Quartet for a pair of song cycles inspired by nature.

Two of Britain's most celebrated singers, Sarah Connolly and Ian Bostridge, join Julius Drake at the piano and the Carducci Quartet for a pair of song cycles inspired by nature. Chausson's Poème de l’amour et de la mer, evokes the sea, at once serene, wild, mocking, cruel. Interwoven throughout the text are the subjects of love and death, themes also found in Vaughan Williams's On Wenlock Edge, where rolling waves are replaced by a quintessentially English rural landscape. Vaughan Williams sets six poems from a collection that inspired many English song composers in the first half of the twentieth century, AE Housman's A Shropshire Lad, including the poignant "Is My Team Ploughing?", sung by the ghost of a lover.

Presented by Martin Handley and recorded at London's Barbican Hall on 1st November 2020.

Vaughan Williams: On Wenlock Edge
Chausson: Poème de l’amour et de la mer (arranged for quartet and piano by Franck Villard)

Dame Sarah Connolly (mezzo-soprano)
Ian Bostridge (tenor)
Carducci Quartet
Julius Drake (piano)

2 hours, 28 minutes

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Wed 18 Nov 2020 19:30
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Music Played

  • Ralph Vaughan Williams

    On Wenlock Edge

    Performer: Carducci String Quartet. Performer: Julius Drake. Singer: Ian Bostridge.

  • Ernest Chausson

    Poeme de l'amour et de la mer

    Performer: Carducci String Quartet. Performer: Julius Drake. Music Arranger: Franck Villard. Singer: Dame Sarah Connolly.

  • Gabriel FaurΓ©

    Pleurs d'Or

    Performer: Carducci String Quartet. Performer: Julius Drake. Music Arranger: Iain Farrington. Singer: Ian Bostridge. Singer: Dame Sarah Connolly.

  • Edward Elgar

    Falstaff - symphonic study Op 68

    Orchestra: City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Sir Simon Rattle.

  • John Foulds

    Music-Poem Op 5 No 20 'Mirage'

    Orchestra: City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Sakari Oramo.
    • Warner Classics.

  • Igor Stravinsky

    Symphony in Three Movements (1st mvt)

    Orchestra: City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Sir Simon Rattle.
    • Stravinsky.
    • Warner Classics.
    • 315.

  • Igor Stravinsky

    Symphony in Three Movements (2nd mvt)

    Orchestra: City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Sir Simon Rattle.
    • Stravinsky.
    • Warner Classics.
    • 316.

  • Igor Stravinsky

    Symphony in Three Movements (3rd mvt)

    Orchestra: City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Sir Simon Rattle.
    • Stravinsky.
    • Warner Classics.
    • 317.

Broadcast

  • Wed 18 Nov 2020 19:30
    Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Radio 3