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. at All Saints Church, Ryde on Saturday 9th October 2021

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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/YYYY

Details

All Saints Church
Queen's Road
Ryde
Isle of Wight
PO33 3AF
England

Saturday 9th October 2021
7:00 PM

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 Ernest Bristow Farrar – Silent Noon Ralph Vaughan Williams – Four 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 Emil Breitenfelt – The Last Long Mile C Long – Oh It's a Lovely War Benjamin Britten – Soldier, 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

and his lass, Op.18 no.5

Last Songs: Hands, Eyes, Heart

Lad: White in the Moon the Long Road Lies

Won't You Marry Me

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

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