Summary

A fascinating programme tracing four major British composers’ responses to landscape and national identity. Vaughan Williams’ Tallis Fantasia explores folksong and sacred music while Holst’s Fields of Sorrow is a colder and bleaker emotional journey. Elgar’s Introduction and Allegro, inspired by a bracing walk along the Cardiganshire coast, is a Welsh reflection of the British pastoral tradition, rooted in the rediscovery of landscape as a creative force.

Presented by Saffron Hall.