Recital - This Fragile Beauty

How does war affect creatives? What keeps them going, then and after? This Fragile Beauty, for soprano, piano, violin and narrator, explores the WWI wartime experience of composers Ivor Gurney, George Butterworth, Arthur Bliss, and Ralph Vaughan Williams, with settings of war-poets by Ireland and Elgar’s evocative A Voice in the Desert from the Belgian perspective. 

A rich tapestry of longing and loss, it also features poems and letters by Gurney and others that emerged from their time in the trenches and the collective grief, processing and change that followed it.

Access details: Wheelchair access to visitor centre and garden – limited wheelchair access to cottage
Parking: Free on site parking
By bus: None available
By train: Worcester Foregate Street is 4 miles away