PROJECT OPERA PRESENTS - A Ploughman's Tale
A story of an everyman who fought in the trenches, told through songs by composers or with words by poets who lived through the time of The Great War.
Add to my Calendar 09-10-2021 19:00 09-10-2021 21:00 36 PROJECT OPERA PRESENTS - A Ploughman's Tale “A Ploughman’s Tale” is a concept-recital which tells the story of an everyman who fought in the trenches, told through songs by composers or with words by poets who lived through the time of The Great War. It includes songs composed by Butterworth, Farrar, Elgar, Gurney, Britten, Peel, Vaughan Williams and Ireland as well as contemporary popular songs and an original setting of John McCrae’s poem “In Flanders’ Fields” by Robert-John Edwards. It was first performed on the centenary of the beginning of The Great War in August 2014 and then again on Armistice Day in 2015. In 2018, it was formally recorded along with the pianist, Sara Wilander and also taken on a 5-date tour around England (Bury (Lancs), Peterborough, Birmingham, Grantham and London) including a performance on the centenary of Armistice Day itself on Sunday, 11th November 2018. This performance is produced in association with Project Opera. Web site: Robert-John Edwards All Saints Church, Ryde DD/MM/YYYYDetails
All Saints Church
Queen's Road
Ryde
Isle of Wight
PO33 3AF
England
Programme
Ivor Gurney – I Will Go with My Father a-Ploughing
Benjamin Britten – The Ploughboy
Roger Quilter – O Mistress Mine
Gerald Finzi – It was a lover and his lass, Op.18 no.5
Ernest Bristow Farrar – Silent Noon
Ralph Vaughan Williams – Four Last Songs: Hands, Eyes, Heart
John Ireland – Mother and Child: Baby
George Butterworth – On the idle hill of Summer
Edward Elgar – Twilight, Op.59 no.6
Arthur Somervell – A Shropshire Lad: White in the Moon the Long Road Lies
Emil Breitenfelt – The Last Long Mile
C Long – Oh It's a Lovely War
Benjamin Britten – Soldier, Won't You Marry Me
Edward Elgar – A War Song, Op.5
Ivor Gurney – In Flanders
John Ireland – The Cost
Anonymous – I Want To Go Home
Robert-John Edwards – In Flanders' Fields
Graham Peel – In Summertime on Bredon
George Butterworth – Is My Team Ploughing
Performers
Robert-John Edwards – bass-baritone
Sara Wilander – piano
Programme Note
“A Ploughman’s Tale” is a concept-recital which tells the story of an everyman who fought in the trenches, told through songs by composers or with words by poets who lived through the time of The Great War.
It includes songs composed by Butterworth, Farrar, Elgar, Gurney, Britten, Peel, Vaughan Williams and Ireland as well as contemporary popular songs and an original setting of John McCrae’s poem “In Flanders’ Fields” by Robert-John Edwards. It was first performed on the centenary of the beginning of The Great War in August 2014 and then again on Armistice Day in 2015. In 2018, it was formally recorded along with the pianist, Sara Wilander and also taken on a 5-date tour around England (Bury (Lancs), Peterborough, Birmingham, Grantham and London) including a performance on the centenary of Armistice Day itself on Sunday, 11th November 2018.
This performance is produced in association with Project Opera.
Web site: Robert-John Edwards