Performance on 3 - Vaughan Williams Anniversary Concert

Petroc Trelawny introduces a concert given during the 2008 Brighton Festival by the City of London Sinfonia under Richard Hickox to mark the 50th anniversary of the death of Ralph Vaughan Williams. The programme includes the Songs of Travel, in their less well-known orchestral arrangement, and culminates with a performance of the rarely heard music drama Riders to the Sea. The text is based on a tragic one-act play by JM Synge, which centres on a grief-stricken Irish fishing community. Vaughan Williams: Overture (The Wasps); Toward the Unknown Region; Songs of Travel; Riders to the Sea With Gerald Finley (baritone), Catherine Wyn-Rogers (mezzo-soprano), Matthew Brooke (bass), Sarah Fox (soprano), Gillian Keith (soprano). Brighton Festival Chorus City of London Sinfonia Richard Hickox (conductor).