"Folk Music in Classical Music" Stephen Johnson & Martin Carthy by comesingitplain-4

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/