大象传媒

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

Recorded at the 大象传媒鈥檚 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: 鈥楾ill 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 大象传媒 Wales.