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Classical music mix inspired by Vaughan Williams

Continuing our Vaughan Williams Today season, a mixtape built around his Folksong Suite, including English music for bagpipes and a setting of O Waly, Waly by Benjamin Britten.

Continuing our season Vaughan Williams Today celebrating the 150th anniversary of the composer's birth, tonight's mixtape is built around his Folksong Suite, in its original version for military band. After the sprightly opening movement "Seventeen Come Sunday" you can hear a sequence of chamber and folk-derived music, including the Kings' Singers with Gordon Langford's beautiful arrangement of "The Oak and the Ash", music for bagpipes from the North East of England, and a setting of the song "O Waly, Waly" by Vaughan Williams's fellow English composer, Benjamin Britten. Also includes music by Dvorak, Franz Danzi and Debussy.

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Wed 11 May 2022 19:00
BBC Radio 3

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Music Played

  • Antonín Dvořák

    String Quartet No 12 in F major, Op 96, 'American' - 3rd movement, Molto vivace

    Ensemble: Amadeus Quartet.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.

  • Trad.

    The Oak and the Ash

    Music Arranger: Gordon Langford. Ensemble: The King’s Singers.
    • SIGNUM.

  • Franz Danzi

    Wind Quintet in D minor, Op 68 No 3 (4th mvt)

    Performer: Michael Thompson Wind Quintet.
    • Danzi: Wind Quintets Op.68.
    • Naxos.
    • 12.

  • Gabriel Fauré

    Sicilienne (Pelléas et Mélisande, Op.80)

    Performer: Robert Thuillier. Orchestra: Orchestre de la Suisse Romande. Conductor: Armin Jordan.
    • Pavane: The music of Gabriel Faure.
    • Erato.
    • 5.

  • Kathryn Tickell

    The Wedding/Because He Was A Bonny Lad

    • Rough Guide: English Folk.
    • World Music.
    • 4.

  • Ralph Vaughan Williams

    Folk songs from Somerset (English Folk Song Suite)

    Orchestra: Royal Northern College of Music Wind Orchestra. Conductor: Timothy Reynish.
    • Holst/Vaughan Williams: British Wind Band Classics: Timothy Reynish.
    • Chandos.
    • 16.

  • Coope Boyes & Simpson

    Uttoxeter Souling Song (Bonus Track)

    • Rough Guide: English Folk.
    • World Music.
    • 21.

  • Benjamin Britten

    O Waly, Waly

    Performer: Peter Pears. Performer: Benjamin Britten.
    • DECCA.

Broadcast

  • Wed 11 May 2022 19:00
    BBC Radio 3

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