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Chamber music from the Lammermuir festival in East Lothian as the Maxwell String Quartet and pianist Christopher Glynn perform Elgar’s Piano Quintet Op. 84. Alice Elgar the composer’s wife wrote in her diary that it had a ’wonderful weird beginning…evidently reminiscence of sinister trees.’
English Baritone Roderick Williams joins for Vaughan Williams Five Mystical Songs, settings of Elizabethan poetry by George Herbert.

Elgar: Piano Quintet in A minor, Op 84
Vaughan Williams: Five Mystical Songs

Roderick Williams - baritone
Maxwell String Quartet
Christopher Glynn - piano

Stephen Broad - presenter
Laura Metcalfe - producer