Birtwistle at 80: Fields of Sorrow
Baldur Bronnimann, conductor
Maxim Rysanov, viola
Eamonn Dougan, Britten Sinfonia Voices Director
Britten Sinfonia Voices
Vaughan Williams Fantasia on a Theme of Thomas Tallis
Holst If you love songs, Lovely venus, David’s Lament for Jonathan, The Fields of Sorrow
Harrison Birtwistle The Fields of Sorrow
Harrison Birtwistle Melencolia I
Vaughan Williams Flos Campi
A fascinating programme of music which traces three major English composers responses to landscape and national identity. Vaughan Williams’ unique pastoral elegy Flos Campi (Flowers of the Field) explores a landscape of physical and spiritual longing, whilst Holst’s Fields of Sorrow is a cold and bleak emotional journey. Using the same Ausonius text as Holst, Harrison Birtwistle demonstrates a highly individual continuation of the English pastoral tradition that has its roots in the rediscovery of landscape as a creative force.
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