"Folk Music in Classical Music" Stephen Johnson & Martin Carthy by comesingitplain-4 published on 2011-05-22T16:53:27Z Stephen Johnson is joined by award-winning traditional folk singer Martin Carthy for a look at the imaginative ways in which Percy Grainger and Ralph Vaughan Williams used folk song material in their compositions. The original programme included a complete performance of Five Variants on Dives and Lazarus by Vaughan Williams which has been edited out of this recording but can be found (in much lower audio quality) here: http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio3/discoveringmusic/pipassets/ram/cdm0527folksong.ram Grainger: Ye Banks and Braes O’Bonnie Doon Grainger: Passacaglia for orchestra – “Green Bushes” Vaughan Williams: Five Variants on Dives and Lazarus Martin Carthy sings extracts from “Dives and Lazarus”, “Come All You Worthy Christian Men”, “Maria Marten / The Murder In The Red Barn”, “Come All You Worthy Christian Men” (again) and “Star Of The County Down”. BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra Martin Carthy (folk singer) Christopher Austin (conductor) http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio3/discoveringmusic/pip/vlfkq/ Genre Radio Comment by Jhy Duet This whole track is great. 2011-09-23T05:36:02Z