An English Songbook: Dame Sarah Connolly & Eugene Asti
22 October 2018, 8:00pm 12 May 2025 - 11:05am
Little introduction is needed for one of today’s great singers, Sarah Connolly, joined by her longstanding duo partner Eugene Asti. They perform an array of wonderful English song, from Bridge to Britten and Holst to Howells.
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Programme
- Sir Charles Villiers Stanford (1852 - 1924)
- A Soft Day (1913) Op. 140 no.3 from A Sheaf of Songs from Leinster
- Ernest John Moeran (1894 - 1950)
- Twilight (1920)
- Ralph Vaughan Williams (1872 - 1958)
- Love Sight (1903) from The House of Life
- Ivor Gurney (1890 - 1937)
- The fields are full (1952)
- Thou didst delight my eyes (1921)
- Sir Arthur Somervell (1863 - 1957)
- Into my heart an air that kills (1904) from A Shropshire Lad
- Herbert Howells (1892 - 1983)
- Goddess of Night (1920)
- Gustav Holst (1874 - 1934)
- Journey's End (1929)
- Cecil Armstrong Gibbs (1889 - 1960)
- Sailing Homeward (1934)
- Benjamin Britten (1913 - 1976)
- A Charm of Lullabies (1947) Op. 41
~~~ Interval ~~~
- Frank Bridge (1879 - 1941)
- Journey's End (1925)
- Michael Tippett (1905 - 1998)
- Songs for Ariel (1961)
- Benjamin Britten (1913 - 1976)
- Somnus (1947)
- A Sweet Lullaby (1947)
- Muriel Herbert (1897 - 1984)
- The Lost Nightingale (1939) 1938-9
- Rebecca Clarke (1886 - 1979)
- The Cloths of Heaven (1912)
- Sally Beamish (1956)
- Day of these Days (2018)
- Frank Bridge (1879 - 1941)
- Come to me in my dreams (1906) H.71
