The Ludlow English Song Weekend will feature a pair of songs by Louis Mander; two settings of Great War Poet, W F Harvey’s evocative words from Gloucestershire, performed here by Baritone Roderick Williams and Pianist Iain Burnside in this opening recital.

7.00pm OPENING RECITAL

St Laurence’s Church

Roderick Williams baritone
Iain Burnside piano

George Butterworth Bredon Hill and other songs
Bredon Hill
O fair enough are sky and plain
When the lad for longing sighs
On the idle hill of summer
With rue my heart is laden

C.W. Orr from A Shropshire Lad
Along the Field
When I watch the living meet
The Lent Lily

Roderick Williams Three Housman Parodies
Woe
Tea-time parody
What, still alive at twenty-two?

Ivor Gurney                 Walking Song
Louis Mander              A Rondel for Gloucestershire
Ivor Gurney                 On your midnight pallet lying
Ivor Gurney                 In Flanders
Louis Mander              Christmas in Prison
Ivor Gurney                 Captain Stratton’s Fancy

Arr Benjamin Britten           The Ploughboy
Arr George Butterworth     Roving in the Dew
Ralph Vaughan Williams     Linden Lea
Arr Benjamin Britten           The foggy, foggy dew
Arr George Butterworth    Seventeen come Sunday