Art song - literally!!
17 October 2006, 8:00pm
In a new association with the Courtauld Institute of Art, high quality reproductions of paintings by, among others, Monet, Seurat, Degas and Gauguin will be projected, each image with a reading and a song carefully selected to complement each other.
Bernardo Daddi: Triptych
Fu²reise
Hugo Wolf
Kneeling
R S Thomas
Gebet
Hugo Wolf
Auf ein
altes Bild Hugo Wolf
Jesus
and his Mother Thom Gunn
Quentin Metsys: Madonna standing with the Child and angels, 1500 - 1509
Schlafendes
Jesuskind - Hugo Wolf
Camille Pissarro: Lordship Lane Station, Dulwich, 1871
Paul Gauguin: Haymaking, 1889
Peter Grimes (from The Borough) - George Crabbe
Winter
Words - Benjamin Britten
(i) At day-close in November
(ii) Midnight on the Great Western
(iii) Wagtail and Baby
(iv) The Little Old Table
(v) The Choirmaster's Burial
(vi) Proud Songsters
(vii) At the Railway Station, Upway
(viii) Before Life and After
Georges Pierre Seurat: Fisherman in a moored boat
Die Forelle - Franz Schubert
Edgar Degas: Woman at a window, 1871 - 1872
Les Berceaux - Gabriel Fauré
Claude Monet: Antibes, 1888
Excerpt from
The Broken Sea - Vernon Watkins
Klockan -
Wilhelm Stenhammar
Seascape -
Benjamin Britten
Peter Paul Rubens: Landscape by moonlight, 1635 - 1640
Full moon -
Victoria Sackville-West
Nacht und
Träume - Franz Schubert
Sure on
this shining night - Samuel Barber
Paul Cézanne: Lac d'Annecy, 1896
De rêve -
Claude Debussy
A Dream
- W H Davies
Paul Gauguin: Te Rerioa, 1897
Träume - Richard Wagner
Sleep -
Ivor Gurney
Nous avons
fait la nuit - Francis Poulenc
Jacopo Tintoretto: Study of a seated male figure
Just Exchange
- Philip Sidney
Canticle 1
'My beloved is mine and I am his' - Benjamin Britten
Paul Gauguin: Nevermore, 1897
Lay your sleeping head - W H Auden
Am Sonntag
Morgen - Johannes Brahms
Die zwei
blauen Augen von meinem Schatz - Gustav
Mahler
Now sleeps
the crimson petal - Roger Quilter
Series
01 October 2006 | 9:00am