Suffolk Songs- Robert Gildon, baritone, Nathan Williamson, pianist & composer, Robert Jellicoe, poet & narrator

A programme celebrating the wealth of folk song, poetry and music inspired by Suffolk’s landscapes, culture and history.

Whilst the work of Benjamin Britten and Peter Pears – and their assistant Imogen Holst, a masterful composer in her own right – is the most obvious example of this wonderful legacy, other connections abound. Ralph Vaughan Williams and George Butterworth collected numerous folk songs from fishermen in Suffolk and other working people. These have in turn influenced Nathan Williamson in his own settings of poems by Suffolk writer Robert Jellicoe, based on tales of Southwold fishermen from bygone years.