Wind in the Willows needs little introduction: Ratty, Mole and Mr Toad, set to music by John Rutter. Bob Chilcott’s The Making of the Drum uses poems which celebrate how the living spirit of the drum is brought alive. Also in the programme are Czech composer
Antonín Tučapský’s beautiful setting of the Ted Hughes poem The Seven Sorrows, reflecting on the passage of summer into autumn, Charles Stanford’s Songs of the Fleet, Gershwin’s I Got Rhythm, Fantasia arranged by Antony Saunders.
Madeleine Mitchell, solo violin
Nigel Perrin, conductor
Julian Rippon, baritone
Peter Adcock, piano
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