40. Fairy Tales - Stanford to Sondheim: Kitty Whately & Simon Lepper
18 October 2019, 8:00pm - 9:40pm
Kitty Whately and Simon Lepper take us on a dramatic journey from ‘La Belle Dame Sans Merci’ – Stanford’s thrilling setting of Keats – to Rebecca Clarke’s spine-chilling ‘The Seal Man’. They include songs by Samuel Barber, alongside a new work by American composer Juliana Hall and librettist Caitlin Vincent, before concluding with an effervescent group of songs by Stephen Sondheim from his fairy-tale musical Into the Woods.
Programme
- Jonathan Dove (1959)
- The Siren (2004) from All the Future Days
- Rebecca Clarke (1886 - 1979)
- The Seal Man (1922)
- Judith Weir (1954)
- Song of the girl ravished away by the fairies in South Uist (1987)
- Sir Charles Villiers Stanford (1852 - 1924)
- La belle dame sans merci (1877)
- Herbert Howells (1892 - 1983)
- King David (1919)
- Joseph Horovitz (1926)
- Lady Macbeth- A Scena (1970)
~~~ Interval ~~~
- Samuel Barber (1910 - 1981)
- St. Ita's Vision (1953) Op. 29 from Hermit Songs
- At Saint Patrick's Purgatory (1953) Op. 29 from Hermit Songs
- The Crucifixion (1953) Op. 29 from Hermit Songs
- Juliana Hall (1958)
- Godiva (Monodrama for Mezzo Soprano and Piano on a Libretto by Caitlin Vincent) (2019)
- Stephen Sondheim (1930)
- I read (1994)
- Any moment / Moments in the woods (1986) from Into the Woods
- Children Will Listen (1986)
- On the steps of the palace (1986) from Into the Woods
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Series
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