Composers during the Great War – part 6
This is the sixth episode of a series on orchestral music by composers who fought or were enlisted to fight in World War one. Today’s episode will feature the music of composers Ernest John Smeed Moeran (1894-1950) and Frederick Septimus Kelly (1881-1916)
Playlist
1. Ernest John Moeran : Overture for an masque (1944)
– Ulster Orchestra, JoAnn Falletta
2. Ernest John Moeran: Nocturne for baritone, choir and orchestra
– Hugh Mackey, baritone, The Renaissance Singers, Ulster Orchestra, Vernon Handley
3. Ernest John Moeran : In the mountain country (1921)
– Ulster Orchestra, JoAnn Falletta
4. Ernest John Moeran : Rhapsody for piano and orchestra in F sharp minor (1943)
– Benjamin Frith, piano – Ulster Orchestra, JoAnn Falletta
5. Frederick Kelly: Elegy for string orchestra ‘In memoriam Rupert Brooke’ (1915)
– BBC Symphony Orchestra, David Lloyd Jones
