Britten & Contemporaries, episode 15. Folk music formed except for Benjamin Britten also for his American colleague Aaron Copland a big source of inspiration. From both of them two examples for a large and small arrangement.
Aaron Copland (1900-1990)
Symphony No. 3 (1946)
I Molto Moderato – With Simple Expression
II Allegro Molto
III Andantino Quasi Allegretto
IV Molto Deliberato (Fanfare) – Allegro Risoluto
Leonard Bernstein: New York Philharmonic
Sony Classical – 88697683652-14 (2010)
Benjamin Britten (1913-1976)
Folk Song Arrangements
• Little Sir William
• The bonny earl o’Moray
• can ye sew cushions
• Oliver Cromwell
• The Salley Gardens
• I married me a wife
• She’s like the swallow
• Lemady
• Bonny at morn
Tenor Philip Langridge, harpist Osian Ellis, Stueart Bedford: Northern Sinfonia
Naxos 8.557220-21 (2005)
