I recall a broadcast of Afternoon Performance that I unfortunately managed to miss which included two rare British items: 'The Wind among the Reeds', orchestral song cycle and cantata by Thomas Dunhill and Norman Hay respectively. The Dunhill contains the lovely 'Cloths of Heaven' setting which I have only ever heard with piano.
If anyone has a recording of this languishing on tape or recordable disc somewhere I would love to hear it!
The Radio 3 listing is to be found here:
http://www.radiolistings.co.uk/programmes/a/af/afternoon_performance.html2004.10.15 Ulster Orchestra
Afternoon Performance rounds of its week of literature-inspired programmes with two settings of the same Yeats poem by Thomas Dunhill and Norman Hay, plus music by Mozart and Brahms.
Presented by Louise Fryer.
Dunhill: The Wind Among the Reeds
Martyn Hill (tenor)
Vernon Handley (conductor)
Mozart: Divertimento in D, K136
David Porceljn (conductor)
Hay: The Wind Among the Reeds - cantata
Melanie Armitstead (soprano)
Roderick Williams (baritone)
Renaissance (choir)
Brahms: Symphony No 3 in F.