Brigg Fair by Percy Grainger

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Percy Grainger's setting of Brigg Fair. From a Yorkshire Television production called 'A Lincolnshire Treasure Hunt', about Grainger's search for traditional folk songs. Broadcast 14 October 1982 as part of the regional series 'Calendar Carousel'. VHS source.

This was filmed at Lotherton Hall, nr Aberford, Leeds, on the afternoon of 19 May 1982. Also appearing in this sequence: Andy Fenn-Rodgers, Lesley Alexander, John Keane, Bridget Sutcliffe, Tina Fay, ENON (12 choristers).







Tags:
Percy Grainger (Composer)
Brigg Fair
English folk song
Ian Partridge
tenor
Classical Music (Musical Genre)