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The Firs - Elgar's Birthplace
Crown East Lane
Lower Broadheath
Worcester
Worcestershire
WR2 6RH
England

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Programme

Edward ElgarUne voix dans le désert, Op.77
Arthur BlissSelected Songs
Ivor GurneySelected Songs
John IrelandSelected Songs
George ButterworthSelected songs
Ralph Vaughan WilliamsAlong the Field

Performers

April Fredrick – soprano
Eric McElroy – piano
Grace Shepherd – violin
Joseph Campbell Powell – Narrator

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Programme Note

How does war affect creatives? What keeps them going, then and after? This Fragile Beauty, for soprano, piano, violin and narrator, explores the WWI wartime experience of composers Ivor Gurney, George Butterworth, Arthur Bliss, and Ralph Vaughan Williams, with settings of war-poets by Ireland and Elgar’s evocative A Voice in the Desert from the Belgian perspective. 

A rich tapestry of longing and loss, it also features poems and letters by Gurney and others that emerged from their time in the trenches and the collective grief, processing and change that followed it.

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April Fredrick and Eric McElroy at the Elgar Festival (photo, Michael Whitefoot)

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