Danse Macabre
24 October 2025, 9:45pm - 10:45pm
As Halloween draws near, enter the magical candlelit space of New College Ante-Chapel for this thrillingly haunting programme performed by the captivating Greek soprano Aphrodite Patoulidou. Described by The LA Times as ‘a class above’, she is joined by the pianist Keval Shah for a wide-ranging selection of music that descends from the mortal plane into the mystical and other-worldly.
Programme
- George Crumb (1929 - 2022)
- I. The Night in Silence Under Many a Star (1979) from Apparition
- Geoffrey Allen (1927 - 2021)
- The Vampire’s Lullaby from Songs that mother never taught me
- Joseph Marx (1882 - 1964)
- Valse de Chopin
- Trad. arr. Aphrodite Patoulidou
- Polly Vaughn
- Anon. arr. Britten
- The shooting of his dear
- Alexander von Zemlinsky (1871 - 1942)
- Ahnung Beatricens
- Rebecca Clarke (1886 - 1979)
- The Seal Man (1922)
- Hugo Wolf (1860 - 1903)
- Nixe Binsefuss (1888) no.45 from Mörike-Lieder
- Emilios Riadis (1880 - 1935)
- L’Esprit du lac et le Roi
- Trad. arr. Aphrodite Patoulidou
- Näcken’s Polska
- Jean Sibelius (1865 - 1957)
- Näcken Op. 57 No. 8
- Carl Loewe (1796 - 1869)
- Tod und Tödin Op. 105
- Jean Sibelius (1865 - 1957)
- Valse Triste
- Camille Saint-Saëns (1835 - 1921)
- Danse macabre (1872)
