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Ian Bostridge, Antonio Pappano and members of the LSO perform Britten, Vaughan Williams and Elgar at the Edinburgh International Festival 2025.

With conductor and pianist Antonio Pappano at the piano, tenor Ian Bostridge performs Benjamin Britten鈥檚 settings of Thomas Hardy, Winter Words.

This is followed by Ralph Vaughan Williams' 1909 song Cycle, On Wenlock Edge, which sets poems by A E Housman and the 鈥淔rench polish鈥� of his recent lessons with Maurice Ravel can be heard in this sophisticated composition for string quartet, piano and voice.

In the second half the LSO string players and Antonio Pappano perform Elgar鈥檚 Piano Quintet in A Minor from 1918. Composed at the end of World War I, and one of Elgar鈥檚 final works, it is a powerful and very human response to the horrors of the previous years.

Recorded at the Queen's Hall Edinburgh as part of the Edinburgh International Festival 2025.

Presented by Donald Macleod

Britten Winter Words, Op 52
Vaughan Williams On Wenlock Edge (1909)
Interval
Elgar Piano Quintet in A Minor, Op 84 (1918鈥�19)

Ian Bostridge (tenor)
Antonio Pappano (piano)
Members of the LSO