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GLOW FESTIVAL - 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.
Part of the Glow Festival 2021
Add to my Calendar 02-10-2021 19:00 02-10-2021 21:00 36 GLOW FESTIVAL - 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 sponsored by The Ivor Gurney Society, Ecclesiastical Insurance and CityFibre and will close the Glow Festival for 2021 Web site: Robert-John Edwards St Mary de Crypt, Gloucester DD/MM/YYYYDetails
St Mary de Crypt
Southgate Street
Gloucester
Gloucestershire
GL1 1TP
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 sponsored by The Ivor Gurney Society, Ecclesiastical Insurance and CityFibre and will close the Glow Festival for 2021
Web site: Robert-John Edwards
