Recital - This Fragile Beauty

How does war affect creatives? What keeps them going, then and after? This Fragile Beauty is a multi-media programme for soprano, piano, violin and narrator exploring 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 features poems and letters by Gurney and others and projected paintings by war artist Paul Nash to immerse the audience in the unique letters, poems and music that emerged from their time in the trenches and the collective grief, processing and change that followed it. 

Access details:  Free parking at NT The Firs