Elliot Family - The Elliots of Birtley: A Musical Portrait Fulfilled By AEC whose poetry - Susan discovered

whose poetry - Susan discovered - has been set to music by composers both familiar and virtually unknown

Paganini was the greatest virtuoso of his time

' The program he has chosen includes three of the pinnacles of Busoni's virtuosic output: the Toccata

Celebrated Mexican-born pianist Jorge Federico Osorio

" Thorpe is referring to the latest Vicious Rumors masterpiece

Elliot Family - The Elliots of Birtley: A Musical Portrait Fulfilled By AEC whose poetry - Susan discoveredThe Elliot Family of England was recorded by Peggy Seeger and Evan MacColl on three separate occasions in the summer of 1961 in the kitchen of Em and Jack Elliot. Some 17 people, all of whose lives were intimately tied to the local coal mines, participated in the recording sessions. The music captures the world of the North East music hall a world of "pawnshops and epic street outings, of Saturday night fist fights, of evictions, of five in a bed to