Sir Andrew Davis conducts Great English Composers

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Elgar's Sea Pictures songs, composed around the same time as the 'Enigma' Variations, set texts by poets that include Elizabeth Barrett Browning and the composer's wife Alice. First performed in 1899 by the legendary Clara Butt (wearing a costume that suggested a mermaid!) the songs are an essentially English response to the changing moods and colours of the sea. Tippett modelled his extraordinary A Child of Our Time on the Passions of JS Bach, ingeniously replacing the customary Lutheran chorales with his own arrangements of Negro spirituals. The text (written by the composer) is a clear statement of Tippett's pacificism, and the impassioned music, composed during World War II, has proved to be Tippett's most popular work.

Conductor — Sir Andrew Davis
Soprano — Nicole Cabell
Mezzo‐Soprano — Catherine Wyn‐Rogers
Tenor — Toby Spence
Bass — David Wilson‐Johnson
London Symphony Chorus
London Philharmonic Choir