Collective Creativity
Donald Macleod explores how the label ‘Anonymous’ can be used to bring together disparate creators and give their works a shared identity. With Lisa Colton and Fay Hield.
Donald Macleod explores how the label ‘Anonymous’ can be used to bring together disparate creators and give their works a shared identity. Medieval scholar Lisa Colton talks to Donald about the famous ‘Tournai’ mass. Ethnomusicologist Fay Hield discusses how the notion of British folk music grew out of the impulse to collect and catalogue our anonymous songs.
Neapolitan Songs: Barcarola napoletana, La favola dell'uccello grifone
Letizia Calandra, soprano
Valerio Celentano, guitar
La Messe de Tournai: Gloria, Credo
Trio Medieval
The Cruel Mother
Fay Hield, singer
The Bull Ring, The Lady's Bright Knot
Leveret
Vaughan Williams: English Folk Song Suite
Academy of St Martin in the Fields Sir Neville Marriner
Three Dances (arr. Praetorius): La sarabande, Ballet, Bransle de villages
The Parley of Instruments directed by Peter Holman.
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