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Judith Weir: Telling the Tale

Songs and Tales

Tom Service introduces a concert live from LSO St Luke's, London.

Songs and their role in storytelling have supplied Weir with many creative ideas. Here she explores everything from timeless Chinese wisdom to Serbian, Scottish and Spanish folk poetry, and in The Voice of Desire the poems by Bridges, Keats and Hardy are conversations between humans and birds – where the birds seem more sophisticated than their human listeners.

As a contrast, Susan Bickley and Andrew Kennedy with Iain Burnside present British folksongs arranged by an earlier generation of song composers.

Susan Bickley (mezzo-soprano)
Andrew Kennedy (tenor)
Iain Burnside (piano)

Weir: Songs from the Exotic
Arr. Grainger: Bold William Taylor; The Sprig of Thyme
Arr. G Butterworth: A Blacksmith courted me
Weir: On buying a horse
FG Scott: O wha my babie clouts will buy? The Eemis Stane; The Sauchs in the Reuch Heuch Hauch
Weir: Scotch Minstrelsy.