The Cortege Live at the BBC 1980

A large-scale work incorporating settings of European poetry - The Cortege is a composition for voices and jazz orchestra with music by Mike Westbrook. With texts from Federico Garcia Lorca, Arthur Rimbaud, Hermann Hesse, William Blake, Giuseppe Gioachino Belli, Pennti Saarikoski, and European Folk Songs selected and edited by Kate Westbrook - and is sung by vocalists Phil Minton, Kate Westbrook with a 16 - piece orchestra originally commissioned by Bracknell Festival 1979.