Ralph Vaughan Williams: Voice of the People
Listen online: How the composer Ralph Vaughan Williams searched Yorkshire to preserve and record the folk songs of the people. Presented with the 2008 Ilkley Literature Festival.
In the decade before the First World War, Vaughan Williams discovered a new approach to music recording hundreds of traditional songs and tunes during summers at Hooton Roberts Rectory near Rotherham and in visits to village pubs, cottages and gypsy camps.
In this podcast, the celebrated a cappella ensemble Coope Boyes & Simpson - a sell-out two years running at Ilkley - discuss Vaughan Williams' work and perform one of his songs.
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Since their first appearance in 1993, Coope Boyes and Simpson's powerful and distinctive unaccompanied singing and songwriting have taken English roots into radical new directions.
Described as "quite simply the best purveyors of acappella song on these Islands", the trio's first record, Funny Old World, was the rock magazine Q's Roots Album of the Year and their live debut on BBC Radio Four drew praise from the classical composer Steve Martland. Subsequent solo and joint releases have led to awards and outstanding reviews the BBC Folk Website simply listed all their albums as recommended listening.
Tours have already taken them throughout Britain, to the Netherlands, Belgium, Portugal, France and America. Their workshops for choral groups have crossed language barriers to encourage performance and participation in England, the Continent - and even Scotland.
Their website is at www.coopeboyesandsimpson.co.uk and their albums are available online at Nomasters.
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