Bostridge, Pappano & Members of the LSO

Expressive singing reveals the emotional depth of Benjamin Britten, Ralph Vaughan Williams and Edward Elgar.

One of the most emotive singers working today, Ian Bostridge frequently performs music by Benjamin Britten, who wrote some of his most personal and heartfelt songs for the tenor voice.

Britten’s Winter Words are sung alongside Ralph Vaughan Williams’ elegiac On Wenlock Edge from 1909 which brings the poetry of AE Housman to life. Vaughan Williams wrote the cycle following lessons with the French composer Maurice Ravel. He remarked that his music thereafter had a ‘French polish’, which can definitely be heard in this shimmering piece.

Edward Elgar’s Piano Quintet in A Minor (1918) is a piece of great contrasts: melancholic and vigorous, sustained and fragmented. Composed at the end of World War I, and one of Elgar’s final works, it is a powerful and very human response to the horrors of the previous years.

This concert will be recorded for broadcast by our partners BBC Radio 3. Find out more.

The Warm Up: Bostridge, Pappano & Members of the LSO

Listen to The Warm Up, your bite-sized audio introduction to the performance.

Nicola Benedetti and tenor Ian Bostridge take us through an emotive programme covering themes from repressed love to our relationship with the past.

edintfest · The Warm Up: Bostridge, Pappano & Members of the LSO

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London Symphony Orchestra

Supported by Susie Thomson

Programme

Full programme

I. At day-close in November
II. Midnight on the Great Western (or The journeying boy)
III. Wagtail and baby (A satire)
IV. The little old table
V. The choirmaster's burial (or The tenor man's story)
VI. Proud songsters (Thrushes, finches and nightingales)
VII. At the railway station, Upway (or The convict and the boy with the violin)
VIII. Before life and after

I. On Wenlock Edge
II. From far, from eve and morning
III. Is my team ploughing
IV. Oh, when I was in love with you
V. Bredon Hill
VI. Clun

I. Moderato
II. Adagio
III. Andante Allegro