Music and the Organ: Music and Poetry

Available for 25 days

Poetry and music have always been closely intertwined. This programme explores the ways composers transform words into music, and how poetry can shape melody, rhythm and expression, featuring works by Hadley and Howells. Led by Rev Melanie Hill Takac, Precentor of Liverpool Cathedral Music Antiphon - Vaughan Williams Hymn to St Cecilia - Herbert Howells Crown him with many crowns (Diademata) Liverpool Cathedral Choir Directed by Stephen Mannings Ian Tracey (organ)