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| Advent Carol Service | ...Carol: Bethlehem Down (PETER WARLOCK)... |
| Afternoon On 3 | ...PETER WARLOCK: Corpus Christi... |
| Bbc Proms Chamber Music 2005 | ...Live from Cadogan Hall in London, a tribute to PETER WARLOCK - one of England's greatest song writers, who died 75 years ago. Plus, an exploration of Proms themes linked to the sea, from Barber's and Fauré's visions of its immensity and mystery, to more salty celebrations of seafaring life through the centuries. Presented by Stephanie Hughes.... |
| Composers At Home | ...Loyd Grossman visits Eynsford in Kent, once home to PETER WARLOCK, one of the most talented English composers of the early 20th Century. He lived an eccentric lifestyle there until he died in suspicious circumstances at the age of 36.... |
| Discovering Music | ...In today's audience workshop, Charles Hazlewood and the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra reveal the musical and emotional depths behind two very different birthday serenades. Wagner composed his Siegfried Idyll as a surprise greeting for his wife Cosima which she heard wafting to her room from the stairs on her birthday. He based the work on themes from his latest opera. The young PETER WARLOCK's boyhood hero was the composer Frederick Delius, whose 60th birthday he marked with a short Serenade for strings, composed in pastiche style, but with his own personal twist.... |
| Frederick Delius (1862-1934) | ...Donald Macleod considers Delius's passion for Scandinavian landscape, culture and music, charting the composer's deep friendship with Norwegian composer Edvard Grieg. He also looks at how a 16-year-old PETER WARLOCK came to play a significant role in Delius's career.... |
| Made In Britain | ...The second week kicks off with the young guns of the 1920s and 30s; the "enfants terribles" who took the British musical establishment by storm. Tommy chooses some of the unfashionable gems from that time, including music by Arthur Bliss, Constant Lambert and Alan Rawsthorne. PETER WARLOCK's biographer Barry Smith gives his thoughts on why "The Curlew" should be given a more regular hearing.... |
| Music Matters | ...With Ivan Hewett. Including an investigation of the PETER WARLOCK archive at Eton College and a profile of ballerina Beryl Grey as she approaches her seventy-fifth birthday.... |
| Music Restored | ...Gesualdo Lucie Skeaping takes a look at the intriguing life and music of the notorious 16th Century Italian musician and murderer, Carlo Gesualdo, Prince of Venosa. Delving deep into the psyche of this astonishing eccentric who was only re-discovered in the 1920's but influenced composers as diverse as PETER WARLOCK and Igor Stravinsky. With examples of some of Gesualdo's best madrigals, motets and Tenebre Responses.... |
| Performance On 3 | ...Selection of songs by PETER WARLOCK and Herbert Howells... |
| Voices | ...Iain Burnside presents a profile of one of Britain's finest songwriters, PETER WARLOCK, with performances from tenor Andrew Kennedy, accompanied by Simon Crawford-Phillips (piano).... |
| Words And Music | ...A sequence of poems and music on the theme of sleep, with readings by Lisa Dillon and Adrian Rawlins. The music is by PETER WARLOCK, Ivor Gurney, Richard Strauss and The Beatles, and the poetry is by John Keats, Margaret Atwood and Shakespeare.... |