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3. Shifting Sands

The story of Engliish art song reaches present times in the last of tenor Mark Padmore's personal reflections on its history.

The story of English art song reaches the 21st century in this the last of the tenor Mark Padmore's personal reflections on its history and achievements. Mark focuses on some of those who have continued to find new inspiration in the genre in the nearly 50 years since the death of Benjamin Britten. The world of English art song has become disparate and diverse and the programme considers the impact of modernism in song settings of English language, and the impact of popular music.

Composers featured in today's programme include Betty Roe, Trevor Hold, Ian Venables, Richard Rodney Bennett, Peter Maxwell Davies, Lyell Cresswell, James MacMillan, Dilys Elwyn-Edwards, Harrison Birtwistle, Judith Bingham, Tansy Davies, Stuart McRae, Gordon Crosse, Peter Dickinson, Errollyn Wallen and Alec Roth.

59 minutes

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Sun 20 Feb 2022 23:00
成人快手 Radio 3

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Music Played

  • Betty Roe

    The Fair Singer

    Performer: Nigel Foster. Singer: Robin Tritschler.
    • The Silver Hound: Songs by Betty Roe.
    • METIER.
    • 6.

  • Trevor Hold

    The Image Stays

    Performer: David Owen Norris. Singer: Anthony Rolfe Johnson.
    • The Image Stays.
    • Dutton.
    • 7.

  • Ian Venables

    3 Songs Op.37 - Love Lives Beyond The Tomb

    Performer: Graham J. Lloyd. Singer: Mary Bevan.
    • Love Lives Beyond the Tomb.
    • SIGNUM.
    • 4.

  • Richard Rodney Bennett

    Tom O' Bedlam's Song

    Performer: Joan Dickson. Singer: Peter Pears.
    • Peter Pears - Anniversary Tribute.
    • DECCA.
    • 20.

  • Peter Maxwell Davies

    8 Songs For A Mad King - No. 7 Country Dance

    Singer: Kelvin Thomas. Ensemble: Psappha.
    • EIGHT SONGS FOR A MAD KING.
    • NMC.
    • 11.

  • Lyell Cresswell

    Prayer For the Cure of a Sprained Back

    Singer: Jane Manning. Ensemble: New Music Group Of Scotland.
    • Music by Harper & Cresswell.
    • Metier Sound & Vision.
    • 5.

  • James McMillan

    Raising Sparks

    Orchestra: Nash Ensemble. Conductor: Martyn Brabbins.
    • Raising Sparks.
    • BLACK BOX.
    • 1.

  • Dilys Elwyn-Edwards

    The cloths of heaven

    Singer: Bryn Terfel. Performer: Malcolm Martineau.
    • BRYN TERFEL: SILENT NOON ENGLISH SONGS.
    • DEUTSCHE GRAMMAPHON.
    • 5.

  • Harrison Birtwistle

    Songs By Myself - The Silence Before Light

    Performer: Huw Watkins. Singer: Claire Booth.
    • The NMC Songbook.
    • NMC.
    • 13.

  • Judith Bingham

    She Walks In Beauty

    Performer: Lucy Wakeford. Singer: Andrew Kennedy.
    • The NMC Songbook.
    • NMC.
    • 17.

  • Tansy Davies

    Destroying Beauty

    Performer: Andrew Ball. Singer: Claire Booth.
    • The NMC Songbook.
    • NMC.
    • 26.

  • Stuart MacRae

    The Lif of This World

    Performer: Antonis Hatzinikolaou. Singer: Michael Chance.
    • The NMC Songbook.
    • NMC.
    • 3.

  • Gordon Crosse

    The New World - When The Star Was On Her Brow

    Performer: Peter Dickinson. Singer: Meriel Dickinson.
    • British Song.
    • Heritage.
    • 12.

  • Peter Dickinson

    3 Comic Songs - Over The Heather

    Performer: Peter Dickinson. Singer: Martyn Hill.
    • Song Cycles.
    • Albany.
    • 16.

  • Errollyn Wallen

    Are you worried about the rising cost of funerals? - 1. Beehive

    Singer: Patricia Rozario. Ensemble: Ensemble X. Ensemble: The Continuum Ensemble.
    • Errollyn Wallen - The Girl in My Alphabet.
    • AVIE.
    • 2.

  • Alec Roth

    My Lute And I - Sometime I Sing

    Performer: Morgan Szymanski. Singer: Mark Padmore.
    • Sometime I Sing - Music for Voice and Guitar.
    • SIGNUM CLASSICS.
    • 8.

Broadcast

  • Sun 20 Feb 2022 23:00
    成人快手 Radio 3