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The Sky Above the Roof
Composer: Ralph Vaughan Williams
Performer: Jennifer Johnston (Mezzo)
Performer: Alisdair Hogarth (Piano)
Recording date: 09 March 2013
Date of broadcast: 07 August 2013
Mabel Dearmer - who adapted this poem for Vaughan Williams - was a noted pacifist who died while tending the wounded in a field-hospital in Serbia in 1915. The wistful tone of the music and words seem to predict her early death.
Composer: Ralph Vaughan Williams
Performer: Jennifer Johnston (Mezzo)
Performer: Alisdair Hogarth (Piano)
Recording date: 09 March 2013
Date of broadcast: 07 August 2013
