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Cardiff Week on Radio 3 continues with tenor Ben Johnson and pianist Llyr Williams on stage live at St. David's Hall. Celebrating the rich variety to be found in the British song repertory, their recital features Ivor Gurney, Elgar and Vaughan Williams, who briefly taught Gurney. A group of lesser known figures follows, among them Maude Valerie White and Amy Woodforde Finden. One of Hilaire Belloc's cautionary tales is set to music by Liza Lehman, and the duo conclude with some favourites among Britten's evocative and charming folk-song settings.

Ivor Gurney:
Down by the Salley Gardens
Most holy night
I will go with my father a-ploughing
Sleep (5 Elizabethan Songs)

Elgar:
Speak Music (2 Songs, op 41, no 2)
Pleading (op 48, no 1)

Vaughan Williams:
Linden Lea
Silent noon (The house of life no 2)

Graham Peel: The Early Morning
Maude Valerie White: The Throstle
Amy Woodforde Finden: 'Till I wake (4 Indian Love Lyrics)
Liza Lehman: Henry King (4 Cautionary Tales and a Moral)

Trad. arr. Britten:
Little Sir William
Early One Morning
The Salley Gardens

Ben Johnson, tenor
Llyr Williams, piano