The rain couldn't dampen the impact of this recital by Radio 3 New Generation artists. In the two song cycles of Ivor Gurney and Ralph Vaughan Williams, which set words from AE Housman's A Shropshire Lad, it is the scything down of young men in the Boer war that shatters the idyll of the English countryside; the sensibility of these performers to the anguish expressed in the music was acute.

Gurney's cycle Ludlow and Teme for tenor and piano quintet dates from 1919 and was modelled on Vaughan Williams' On Wenlock Edge, composed a decade earlier. While Gurney's own poetic instinct helped him capture the subtle balance of pastoral joy with the dark shadows of battle, the knowledge of his own suffering in the first world war and his subsequent consignment to a mental hospital adds to their force. Andrew Kennedy's perfect diction made him an ideal interpreter; while the almost impish quality of 'Tis Time, I Think, By Wenlock was a foil first for the intensity of his delivery of Ludlow Fair and then the tenderness of The Lent Lily.

The passion which the Aronowitz brought to Elgar's Piano Quintet in A minor equalled their finesse in the song cycles, and if one player should be singled out it is Jennifer Strumm, whose viola solos had a warmth of tone worthy of the late Cecil Aronowitz, for whom the ensemble is named.

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