WGBH Music: Cornell Glee Club performs Britten's "Ballad of Little Musgrave"

Direct from the Classical New England Fraser Performance Studio at Boston's WGBH, Director Scott Tucker leads the Cornell University Glee Club in "The Ballad of Little Musgrave and Lady Barnard," by Benjamin Britten. John Rowehl is the pianist. Cathy Fuller is the host.
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[@bryanoflynn2959]

Beautiful piece. The beginning and the ending.

[@jeffnilsson6438]

Pure composing genius: at 4:58 the composer effortlessly changes the scene to far away and you can hear Barnard's horn from a distance

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[@theblazndiamondsword]

I am too excited to sing this piece!! This was an outstandingly terrific, and an absolutely wonderful performance! CA All State Men's Honor Choir Feb 2017!!!!

[@brianahern8147]

I sang this in 1986 All State Men’s Chorus. Brings back memories!

[@ericperrymusic]

Goodness this is so beautiful!

[@caleb1016]

My school’s chamber choir was learning this piece this semester, but all concerts, recitals and exhibitions are canceled until next term so sadly I won’t get to perform this in our annual winter recital.

[@Rhuzitos]

Fantastic!

[@denisezygadlo6175]

This piece was sent to my husbands uncle, Richard Wood, a musician in the prisoner of war camp, who organised a music festival there. He was a friend of Benjamin Britten and organised for a complete orchestra of instruments to be delivered via Red Cross bit by bit. The festival went on for a month and covered all genres of music. Scores were written on tiny pieces of scrap paper and prisoners were taught to play instruments, sometimes for the first time. When Richard died there was a memorial held for him in the Imperial War museum and a choir sang this piece - very moving. Richard (Dick) was imprisoned on his first day as a soldier and spent the entire war in prison. We have many of his letters from that time.

[@joshywashy3453]

Denise Zygadlo What an incredible piece of history you hold. Not that being a prisoner of war is by any means a blessing, but it seems a lot of good still came out of it.

[@scotta.tucker7405]

Denise, thank you for sharing this!

[@hashatz]

Beautiful composition and well sung.

[@chrisw4952]

Incredible.

[@WGBHMusic]

Glad you liked the performance, Christian! Thanks for leaving a comment.

[@linkboulvert]

Really good ! Very beautifull ! 3

[@WGBHMusic]

That's a nice part of the piece.

[@DrTrumpet2010]

I'm singing this in my university men's chorus, I tear up whenever we get to 8:49

[@theblazndiamondsword]

DrTrumpet2010 Me tooooooooo It's glorious!

[@theblazndiamondsword]

DrTrumpet2010 California All State Men's Honor Choir Feb 2017 for meeeeeee :D

[@tylermace4594]

love the song. why don't the musicians have this memorized?

[@theblazndiamondsword]

Tyler Mace look at the score! do you want it memorized and sung in a few months, or with score and sung in a few weeks? Just a point....

[@danielcissell2970]

I have this in my choir haha believe me it's a difficult score

[@kyledavis8464]

I sang this in my choir (NYCGB) and it wasn't too hard to memorize.

[@mccullarjacob]

You’ve gotta turn off the midroll ads, the song is so beautiful it’s awful to be torn away

[@WGBHMusic]

Yep, those are very annoying. Not coming from us

[@robhageman6939]

Your presentation was a great hel by studying the ballad with our male voice Choir the " Koninklijk Dordrechts Mannenkoor " "KNA

[@fenderstratguy]

This song goes back to the 1600s man Benjamin Britton didn't write it first

[@bienfaitmboni]

please can I join ur group? I am a singer too

[@uedatakeyuki1776]

「幼いマスグレイブとバーナード婦人のためのバラード」 goog!

[@TheLegendaryMudkip]

This was a good performance, however the bottom E flat in the basses at 3:34 was almost inaudible. This didn't really change much, as it's certainly not the most important part of the piece, but it would've made this slightly better in my opinion. I'm not sure if this is how it was intended, but the part after this was a fair bit faster than when the choir I'm in performed it. I think it would've been better to do it just slightly slower than it was done here for a bit more clarity of consonants

[@LukeBurns-ry7mr]

the B E S T version by PLANXTY, is the real thing. This is all a bit too Sunday Morning for me :) and a bit too gay for such a bloody and angry poem

[@Darraghcollins]

not the way this song is meant to be sung. search planxty for the correct version

[@LucruxDCLXVI]

What are you talking about? This piece was written 30 years before Planxty was formed.

[@jthamm8362]

@@LucruxDCLXVI or nick jones version ...not as good

[@banjoman1565]

I can appreciate it but it’s not planxty 😂

[@marcphelan9883]

This is painful ,try christy Moore and planky for a bit of life

[@tylermace4594]

love the song. why don't the musicians have this memorized?

[@jamesupton7332]

Tyler Mace I'm in NYCGB and we had it memorized in a week

[@kyledavis8464]

@@jamesupton7332 Hey James!

[@kyledavis8464]

@@jamesupton7332 *4 days

[@jamesupton7332]

@@kyledavis8464 heya