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2. Resonances: 'A Time There Was'

A personal survey of the modern English art song, from Elgar to Errollyn Wallen, told by tenor Mark Padmore. Today he looks at the mid-20th century, including Warlock and Britten.

A personal survey of the modern English art song from Elgar to Errollyn Wallen told by the tenor Mark Padmore. Today his story takes him to the mid-20th century and includes the work of John Ireland, Peter Warlock and Benjamin Britten, among others. The desire to shape something distinctive through musical settings of the English language required a creative and sympathetic response to the poetic text - and sometimes the clues to this could be found in the music of the past.

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Sun 13 Feb 2022 23:00
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Music Played

  • John Ireland

    The Salley Gardens

    Performer: Gerald Moore. Singer: Janet Baker.
    • Very Best of English Song.
    • WARNER CLASSICS.
    • 2.

  • Ernest John Moeran

    7 Poems of James Joyce - 1. Strings of the Earth and Air

    Performer: John Talbot. Singer: Roderick Williams.
    • Complete Solo Songs.
    • CHANDOS.
    • 19.

  • Cecil Armstrong Gibbs

    Silver

    Performer: Roger Vignoles. Singer: Sarah Walker.
    • Dreams & Fancies.
    • CRD.
    • 3.

  • John Sykes

    On Another's Sorrow

    Performer: William Vann. Singer: Rowan Pierce.
    • Fearful Symmetry: Songs and Piano Music By John Sykes.
    • Albion Records.
    • 19.

  • B-Five Recorder Consort

    Galliard

    • Consort Music and Songs.
    • Coviello Classics.
    • 20.

  • Peter Warlock

    Sleep

    Performer: Jennifer Partridge. Singer: Ian Partridge.
    • Songs by Warlock & Vaughan Williams.
    • ETCETERA.
    • 5.

  • Peter Warlock

    6 English Tunes - Sweet Youth

    Orchestra: London Festival Orchestra. Conductor: Ross Pople.
    • Peter Warlock.
    • Arte Nova Classics.
    • 12.

  • Peter Warlock

    The Curlew - 1. O Curlew cry no more in the air

    Ensemble: Britten Sinfonia. Singer: Mark Padmore.
    • Ten Blake Songs.
    • HARMONIA MUNDI.
    • 18.

  • Peter Warlock

    The Fox

    Performer: Julius Drake. Singer: Christopher Maltman.
    • Songs by Schubert, Wolf, Debussy, Duparc and Warlock.
    • WIGMORE HALL LIVE.
    • 16.

  • Gustav Holst

    Betelgeuse

    Performer: Graham Johnson. Singer: Alice Coote.
    • The Power of Love.
    • Hyperion.
    • 27.

  • Henry Purcell

    If Music Be the Food of Love

    Performer: Andrew Ball. Singer: Martyn Hill.
    • Songs.
    • Hyperion.
    • 2.

  • Michael Tippett

    Boyhood's End

    Performer: Benjamin Britten. Singer: Peter Pears.
    • Boyhood's End The Heart's Assurance.
    • ARGO.
    • 2.

  • Benjamin Britten

    Songs And Proverbs of William Blake 13 & 14

    Performer: Julius Drake. Singer: Gerald Finley.
    • Songs & Proverbs of William Blake.
    • HYPERION.
    • 17.

  • Benjamin Britten

    Fish in the Unruffled Lakes

    Performer: Graham Johnson. Singer: Felicity Lott.
    • Favourite English Songs.
    • CHANDOS.
    • 7.

  • The Choir Of Girton College Cambridge

    Mount Ephraim - For All Thy Saints O Lord

    • The Complete New English Hymnal Volume 17.
    • Priory.
    • 11.

  • Benjamin Britten

    Winter Words - The Choir Master's Burial

    Performer: Roger Vignoles. Singer: Mark Padmore.
    • Britten - Before Life and After.
    • Harmonia Mundi.
    • 17.

  • Madeleine Dring

    4 Night Songs - 2. Frosty Night

    Performer: Philip Ledger. Singer: Robert Tear.
    • The Far Away Princess - Songs by Madeleine Dring.
    • Meridian.
    • 17.

  • Geoffrey Bush

    Greek Love Songs - The Poet's Epitaph

    Performer: Geoffrey Bush. Singer: Benjamin Luxon.
    • A Little Love Music.
    • CHANDOS.
    • 1.

Broadcast

  • Sun 13 Feb 2022 23:00
    大象传媒 Radio 3