GW theme to tonight's Radio 3 in Concert.

[seaJane]

7:30.tonight

 

"When Elgar was asked early in the War to write music for a Homefront theatre adaptation of Algernon Blackwood's curious escapist novel A Prisoner in Fairyland he delivered a work of never-never land enchantment - The Starlight Express. Baritone Roderick Williams and soprano Emma Tring join the BBC SO.

Baritone Roderick Williams's second appearance tonight is for The World Was Once All Miracle by the composer Raymond Yiu. Premiered last year to great acclaim, the work sets texts by a hero of Yiu's, the writer and sometime composer Anthony Burgess - who was born in 1917.

Lilian Elkington's Out of the Mist (1921) is a recently discovered war treasure. It paints a picture of Dover on 10th November 1920 as HMS Verdun, with a flotilla of battleships, appears through the Channel fog bringing the body of the Unknown Warrior on its way to final rest in Westminster Abbey.

Elgar's noble choral masterpiece The Spirit of England memorialises the fallen setting texts by Laurence Binyon , including the lines 'They shall grow not old, as we that are left grow old'. Andrew Staples is the tenor soloist."

Can be caught up with here: . https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b09yhgn9

[Chris_B]

Thank you for posting this reminder.  The second-half of the concert is still on my "to-listen" to list.  Lilian Elkington's work  Out of the Mist 1921 can be heard here: 

 

 

An article  in the Maud Powell Signature mag on Lilian Elkington by David Brown (who found her works in a Worthing bookshop):

 

http://www.maudpowell.org/signature/Portals/0/pdfs/signature/Signature_Autumn_2008.pdf