Brushstrokes & Ballads: Fairytales in Song
11 October 2025, 5:00pm - 6:00pm
Kitty Whately, always a Festival favourite, gives a performance of this magical concert for a grownup audience, following a family-friendly version this morning (Event 6). She curates and performs an enchanting programme of fairytale songs, illustrated live by renowned artist James Mayhew. James has created live-illustration events with the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic, BBC National Orchestra of Wales, Doric String Quartet and many others. He paints live on stage, with his work projected above the performers so that the audience can clearly see each song come magically to life as it unfolds. A range of dramatic poems are heard in settings by composers from Purcell to Sondheim.
Programme
- Jonathan Dove (1959)
- The Siren (2004) from All the Future Days
- Madeleine Dring (1923 - 1977)
- Melisande, The Far Away Princess
- Rebecca Clarke (1886 - 1979)
- Binnorie
- Michael Head (1900 - 1976)
- A Green Cornfield (1923)
- Sir Charles Villiers Stanford (1852 - 1924)
- La belle dame sans merci (1877)
- Muriel Herbert (1897 - 1984)
- 3. The tadpole from Six Children's Songs
- Rebecca Clarke (1886 - 1979)
- Tiger Tiger
- Henry Purcell (1659 - 1695)
- Mad Bess (1945) Z. 370
- Judith Weir (1954)
- Song of the girl ravished away by the fairies in South Uist (1987)
- Rebecca Clarke (1886 - 1979)
- The Seal Man (1922)
- Herbert Howells (1892 - 1983)
- King David (1919)
- Stephen Sondheim (1930 - 2021)
- On the steps of the palace (1986) from Into the Woods
