Roderick Williams, baritone & Iain Burnside, piano
LIMITED AVAILABILITY
From the Forest of Dean to the
Appalachians:Songs by Ina Boyle, Ivor Gurney, John Ireland, Elaine
Hugh-Jones, Herbert Howells, Michael Head, Douglas Weiland, Anthony Payne,
Ralph Vaughan Williams, Gustav Holst, Charles Villiers Stanford, Arthur
Bliss and African American Spirituals (arr. Roderick Williams)
Roddy
and Iain have devised a wonderful programme that transports us across
land, seas and time, shining a reflective light on an age before and after
the turn of the 20th century. Their prime focus is on the ‘Dymock Poets’,
a group of friends – including Edward Thomas and Rupert Brooke – who lived
near the Gloucestershire village in the years leading up to the First
World War and who welcomed the great American poet Robert Frost into their
midst during his extended trip to England. It is his work that provides
the bridge to American forebears and contemporaries Walt Whitman and Edna
St Vincent Millay.
There is much beauty in evocative poems of rural
life, but the shadows of injustice, war and servitude are never far away.
It is no wonder that so many great composers have been moved to write
songs to the arresting words of these poets, and this programme offers a
compelling sequence that gives a vision of life 100 years ago that
nevertheless still has resonances in our modern, contrary world.
"a
perceptive and highly skilled partnership” MusicWeb International
Tickets:
£34/£27 (concessions £19/£16)
OFFER: Free entry
to Saturday morning Masterclass when booked at the same time (discount
applied at checkout).
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£34.00 -
24 July 2026 -
120 minutes -
19:30 -
Paxton House
