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Willow, willow
Composer: Percy Grainger
Performer: Kitty Whately (Mezzo)
Performer: Iain Burnside (Piano)
Recording date: 10 May 2015
Date of broadcast: 21 October 2015
19-year-old Australian Grainger - artist, composer, performer - had 1901 London agog. His setting of this Shakespeare song - sung by Desdemona in Othello - shows two elements constant in his music: beauty and harmony. The song is a mournful folk ballad which laments lost loves.
Composer: Percy Grainger
Performer: Kitty Whately (Mezzo)
Performer: Iain Burnside (Piano)
Recording date: 10 May 2015
Date of broadcast: 21 October 2015
