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Judith Weir: Telling the Tale

Part One

Friday 18 January 2008 19:00-19:50 (Radio 3)

Natural History

Live from the Barbican Hall, London, Tom Service presents the first concert in a weekend dedicated to leading British composer Judith Weir.

Weir's Forest grows from a tiny 'seed' of melody into a dense, flourishing work for large orchestra, while her song-cycle Natural History draws on Taoist poetry. After the interval, The welcome arrival of rain vividly evokes sensations associated with the Indian monsoon.

Weir's music is interspersed with folk music from concertina maestro Simon Thoumire and his band, and the English Acoustic Collective.

 

 

Simon Thoumire

and there's also a concertina in the English Acoustic Collective - I didn't catch the name of the player.

This should be available as a Listen again for 7 days from today at R3 Performance on 3

[Dirge]

Is the concertina anything to do with Mrs Weirs stuff? The way I read it ST is the 'support' (if they have them in formal concerts)

[spindizzy]

Is the concertina anything to do with Mrs Weirs stuff? The way I read it ST is the 'support' (if they have them in formal concerts)

 

That seems about it. A couple of 5 mins spots in a couple of hours of concert :-)

(But I quite like Judith Weir's stuff anyway).

 

Chris

[PeterT]

there's also a concertina in the English Acoustic Collective - I didn't catch the name of the player.

This should be available as a Listen again for 7 days from today at R3 Performance on 3

See details on this link:

 

http://www.englishacousticcollective.org.uk/EAC/index.html

 

Chris Wood and a certain John Dipper on fiddles, plus the very talented Robert Harbron on concertina. Chris and John are also very talented (in case they feel left out!).

 

Peter.

[Chris Drinkwater]

And of course, John Dipper, who is no mean EC player himself, is the son of Colin Dipper, concertina maker extraordinaire.

 

Chris

[John Wild]

From a posting on the ICA mailing list:

 

<http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio3/afternoonon3/pip/91ujq/> the last hour

(4-5) described as the "English Set".

 

Performance on three

http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio3/performanceon3/pip/v8nzt/> is described as

being: Weir's music is interspersed with folk music from concertina

maestro Simon Thoumire and his band, and the English Acoustic

Collective.

 

They should be available on "Listen Again" for the next 7 days